Mons - Le Lumeçon 
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On the Sunday after Whitsun a strange festival takes place in Mons; it is called "Lumeçon" and has its origins in a processional game which dates from the end of the 14th C. and which is associated with St George. The participants are St George in the uniform of a cuirassier and a dragon called "Doudou", 10 so-called "Chinchins" who carry St George, as well as eight "devils", seven "wild men" and 12 "white men". They all form up in a procession which punctually at 12:30 p.m. leaves the Collégiale Ste-Waudru for the Grand-Place to the sounds of the "doudou" folk song.
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On the morning of the same day there is also a procession of the "Car d'Or" when the relics of St Waltrud are taken in procession in a golden coach.
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