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Bali, May 19(EFE/EPA).- Balinese took part Wednesday in the sacred Ngerebeg ritual at a village in Gianyar, Bali.The sacred Ngerebeg ritual is staged every six months and is mainly aimed at driving all evil spirits out of the villages. During the ritual, participants decorate their body with various colourful paints and march across the village.(Camaer: MADE NAGI)SHOT LIST: NGERBEG CELEBRATIONS IN GIANYAR, BALI, INDONESIA.
This Christmas tradition would even give the Grinch the chills! A half goat and half demon being called the Krampus was out and about at the Munich Christmas markets on Sunday, making sure all the girls and boys have been good this year. The tradition comes from folk legends originating in the eastern Alps, where Krampus is portrayed as a beast that punishes misbehaving children. The procession, known as the 'Krampus Run', is an annual event where some attendees wearing spooky Krampus suits make their way through crowds, occasionally picking out individuals and ‘beating’ them.
In the remote Indian village of Bavithram Vellalapatti, women of all ages line up and wait for a chance to get whipped by local priests in front of thousands of gathered worshippers. Dressed in traditional attire, male priests cracked their whips on older women and school girls alike at the sprawling "lashing grounds" of the Sri Achappan Temple in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The bizarre ritual is believed to "drive evil spirits away" and the line of women waiting for their chance to get whipped by the priest can stretch over a quarter mile.
Those of us worried about our spiritual futures turn to religious rituals to help us prepare for the afterlife, but some believers in the El Salvadorian town of Texistepeque have taken that idea to another level. Welcome to the Talciguines festival, where demons literally whip your sins away. The Talciguines festival draws tourists and locals alike to stand in the crowd and wait for participants dressed as 'demons' to strike them with leather whips in order to 'banish their sins.' Talciguines is a theatrical tradition that is meant to represent the battle between 'good and evil.' Forty-five men dress up in red robes, meant to represent 'the devil' or 'demons.' Following a church service the participants go out into the streets, where they proceed to whip people. Following the whipping, another man, dressed as Jesus Christ, performs with 'the demons,' walking over their prostrate bodies to represent the cleansing of their sins. The practice of enduring suffering on earth in order to attain redemption, salvation, or other spiritual rewards is known as asceticism, and has served as a tenet in many religions, including Christianity. However, when people perform bodily harm to themselves or allow others to harm them, this practice is known as unnatural ascetism. The festival is a part of a holy Easter week in El Salvador and attracts thousands of people from all over the world.
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U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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