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Anastenaria – Perhaps the oldest living tradition on the European continent. A personal expreience.
Anastenaria – A small community in the village of Lagkadas near Thessaloniki, Greece, perpetuates a tradition whose origins lie back in the ancient times of this region in the Balkans.
The Burning Saints – In his interview with Thomas Coleman for The Religious Studies Project, experimental anthropologist, Dr. Dimitris Xygalatas, discusses his ethnography of the fire-walking rituals of the Anastenaria.
Wikipedia – Learn about the traditional barefoot fire-walking ritual with ecstatic dance performed in some villages in Northern Greece and Southern Bulgaria.
National Geographic – Firewalking
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