Political anxiety, disaster add fuel to Zozobra fire

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) " High anxiety about White House politics, hurricane flooding and even the threat of nuclear war with North Korea is adding an extra spark to the annual burning of a giant, ghostly marionette that serves as an effigy to gloom and doom.The ritual burning of Zozobra is expected to attract tens of thousands of revelers Friday to a Santa Fe city park for a mixture of wholesome and ghoulish fun.Inside the six-story puppet are reams of crumpled, handwritten notes [...]


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