Bonfire

The Samhain Athens Fire Festival returns this year to the Lipasmata Multifunctional Park in Drapetsona, Piraeus.

The much-awaited Kakava festivities have begun in the northwestern province of Edirne, as visitors throng the region to soak in the exuberant atmosphere full of activities such as dancing around the Kakava bonfire marking the arrival of spring, listening to folktales and firewalking.

At full gallop, the horse emerges from the darkness and races through a string of bonfires in an ancient ritual to ward off sickness performed every January in a tiny Spanish village.

Known as Luminarias, the festival takes place every Jan. 16 in San Bartolome de Pinares, a village perched high in the hills about 100 kilometers (60 miles) west of Madrid.

Turkey has extended condolences to the Israeli government and people over the deadly stampede in northern Israel.

"We have received the news with sadness that many people lost their lives as a result of a stampede during a religious festival ceremony on Mount Meron in northern Israel," read a statement issued by the Foreign Ministry on April 30.

At least 44 people were crushed to death at an over-crowded religious bonfire festival in Israel on April 30, medics said, in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as a "heavy disaster".   

On a high school trip to Jordan's ancient city of Petra, a group of teenagers sneak out at night to drink beer, smoke weed and gossip around a bonfire. A girl asks her frisky boyfriend to take things slow.

About 30 people injured in an explosion in Stamford Hill, North London, the Daily Express reported, quoted by Reuters.

There was a bonfire explosion during Lag BaOmer Jewish celebrations in London.

Every year people from around the globe rush to a majestic place full of creativity and beauty called Burning Man. One of the roots of the annual event now known as Burning Man began as a bonfire ritual on the summer solstice in 1986 when Larry Harvey, Jerry James, and a few friends met on Baker Beach in San Francisco and burned a 2.7-meter wooden man as well as a smaller wooden dog.

The evening of June 23, St. John’s Eve, is typically celebrated in Greece with a huge bonfire that the faithful are called to jump over. The bonfire has its roots in the early days of Christianity. The custom is rooted in the belief that St.

It is time for Halloween, which also happens to be the peak period of Scorpio’s. Of all the astrological signs, the Scorpio lady must be the one most associated with witches. Proud to be one, Scorpio’s are not the bit scary, unless you step onto them.