According to religious beliefs, performing Holika Puja and Dahan (burning Holika) with proper rituals brings happiness ... sit in Holika’s lap inside a fire. However, Holika was burnt to ...

Serrès (Greece) (AFP) – 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 ...

Show more Show less The fire walkers of northern Greece practise the ritual on the day of the Orthodox feast of Saint Constantine and Saint Helena Fire walkers display their feet after the ritual ...

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 ...

Charles Dahan immigrated to the U.S. from Morocco via Switzerland in 1973 — when he began working as a chemical engineer for the DuPont Corporation. Life took him down a variety of paths and he ...