When night falls, ancient, eerie figures roam the villages of a Swiss mountain valley. They are the Tschäggättä.

Every early spring, the southern Hungarian town of Mohács hosts an ancient pagan festival. The streets fill with men wearing wooden masks and thick woolly cloaks in a centuries-old tradition.

An almost perfectly preserved wooden mask from around the early third century that likely featured in important farming festivals was uncovered at an archaeological site in Osaka Prefecture.