The fire walking ritual, held on the day of the Orthodox feast of Saint Constantine and Saint Helena on May 21, has been practised for over a century in four villages of the Greek region of Macedonia, ...

Oct 29 (Reuters Life!) - Hundreds of Hindu devotees walked across a ceremonial pit of hot coals in the early hours of Monday at the start of the annual Theemithi fire walking festival in Singapore.

Men use wooden sticks to prepare the burning embers for the fire-walking ritual known as Anastenaria, on Saint Constantine and Saint Helen’s day, in Mavrolefki, Greece, May 21, 2024. REUTERS/Alkis ...

The sacred festival of Jhamu Yatra was observed with great devotion at the revered Maa Sarala Temple in Jagatsinghpur.

Large numbers of devotees from across the State and neighbouring Karnataka participated in the annual Kundam festival at the Arulmigu Bannari Mariamman Temple on Tuesday (March 31, 2026), performing ...

Under a cloud of incense smoke, a group of men and women in a village in northern Greece swayed slowly to the music before removing their shoes and rushing, barefoot, onto waiting embers. The fire ...