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Riders guide horses through bonfires lit in the middle of the street in an act believed to purify the animals in the coming year. Festivities started around nightfall Thursday as giant stacks of ...

It was called a zoetrope. In October 19, 1878, Scientific American published a series of pictures depicting a horse in full gallop, along with instructions to view them through the zoetrope.