Traditional Fire Festivals

Dramatic bonfires and flames from various cultural celebrations, showcasing vibrant fire against dark night skies and silhouettes of onlookers.

Flames of Holika Dahan fire festival, India Copyright: xHarixMahidhar/DinodiaxPhotox

Germany, Bavaria, Obergünzburg, Allgäu, Swabia, fire, night, tradition

fallas fest fire burning figures in Valencia Spain in march 19th

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Flames of Holika Dahan fire festival, India Copyright: xHarixMahidhar/DinodiaxPhotox

Witches' bonfire, Walpurgis Night bonfire

Witches' bonfire, Walpurgis Night bonfire

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Holi festival of colors close ups of fire celebration at Dadar, Bombay Mumbai , Maharashtra, India Copyright: xManojxNavalkar/DinodiaxPhotox

Easter fire

Los Escobazos” is a festival held every December 7th in Jarandilla de la Vera, on the eve of the celebration of the Immaculate Conception. Literally The Big Brooming” (as in broom used for sweeping), the festival re-enacts the descent of goat shepherds from the nearby Gredos mountains down to the village, lighting their way through the pitch dark night with broom torches.

Festival of St. Antonio Fire, Castelletto di Cuggiono, Italy

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Burning Effigy

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Large bonfire burning at night for summer solstice

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Burning sparks on Spark Sunday in Weingarten Württ. Burning spark on Spark Sunday in Weingarten Württ. The Spark Sunday was given its name from the custom of the spark fire, which is committed in the Swabian-Alemannic area that day. A large wooden tower or pile of straw is burned out of sparks, into which a spark fir is inserted with a witch doll attached to it.

A bonfire on Walpurgis night, Sweden.

View of the fireplace with burning wood

Ghost money burning as an offering to gods at a temple, Tainan, Taiwan

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Fallas fire burning in Valencia fest at March 19 th Spain tradition

Indonesia, Bali, Traditional Balinese dancer walks through hot coals in Ubud

Massachusetts, Cape Ann, Rockport, Fourth of July Bonfire

Witches' bonfire, Walpurgis Night bonfire

Witches' bonfire, Walpurgis Night bonfire

Arider with his horse jumping through a bonfire in an apocalyptic scene of Las Luminarias during the feast of St. Anthony held annually in the streets of the small mountain hamlet of San Bartolome de Pinares, Avila, Spain, Europe

Fire wheel, burning wooden wheel rolls in the night, Easter festival, Easter wheel run, Luegde, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Evening aarathy ceremony at Goverdan ecovillage, Maharashtra, India

Fire wheel, burning wooden wheel rolls in the night, Easter festival, Easter wheel run, Luegde, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

India, , New Delhi , Dussehra Festival huge burning effigy and fireworks.

Tamsweg: Easter fire, wooden towers made from spruce trunks and filled with brushwood, cross on top, spectators in Lungau, Salzburg, Austria Tamsweg Lungau Salzburg Austria

Horse riding through bonfire in a purification ritual

Statue of Tripurasura, Tripurasura is a collective name given to the three Hindu demons Vidyunmali, Tarakaksha and Viryavana, who were sons of the demon Tarakasur.

Festival of St. Antonio Fire, Castelletto di Cuggiono (Milan, Italy)

burning thorn bush christian symbol An image of a burning thorn bush christian symbol Copyright: xZoonar.com/magannx 15831213

Bonfires along The Mississippi River, lighted on Christmas Eve to guide Santa CLaus to New Orleans. This is special the crosses are used to commorate the mass shooting at Newtown, Conn.

Thailand, Chiang Mai, Wat Jedi Luang, Inthakhin Ceremony. People Offering Candles And Joss Sticks

Tamsweg: Easter fire, wooden towers made from spruce trunks and filled with brushwood, cross on top, spectators in Lungau, Salzburg, Austria Tamsweg Lungau Salzburg Austria

Burning candles with candle light in the dark

Kanha National Park, India

Africa, Morocco, Fire breathers perform in Djema El Fna square in Marrakech's old medina

Man with banner dressed as monk in front of large bonfireLewes, East Sussex. Man with banner dressed as monk in front of large bonfire

Christmas Eve Fia-Faia Festival in Baga.

Japan, Honshu island, Nara, Shin-yakushiji Temple, Buddhist monk in procession with torches of fire at ceremony honoring Buddha's birthday

Man emitting fire from his mouth, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India MR 786T Copyright: xMohammedxSharif/DinodiaxPhotox

Bahnar People Perform A Traditional Dance Around A Fire In Kon Ko Tu Village Near Kontum In Kon Tum Province, Vietnam'S Central Highlands, Vietnam, South East Asia, Asia

Unhappy Colombians take the streets again to protest against President Ivan Duque´s response to the recent massive National Strike. Cali, Colombia, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2019

Tamsweg: Easter fire, wooden towers made from spruce trunks and filled with brushwood, cross on top, spectators in Lungau, Salzburg, Austria Tamsweg Lungau Salzburg Austria

Incense sticks burning at a temple, Lama Temple, Dongcheng, Beijing, China

A fire dancer performs tricks for an audience at Maninoa, Upolu, Samoa.

Tamsweg: Easter fire, wooden towers made from spruce trunks and filled with brushwood, cross on top, spectators in Lungau, Salzburg, Austria Tamsweg Lungau Salzburg Austria

Novice monks and boy lighting a candle on wooden boat in the festival of the illuminated boat procession. Mekong River, Don Det Island, Si Phan Don, Champasak, South Laos. Noise, Grain. Long exposure.

People dressed as clergy on stand with fireworks behind them at Newick Bonfire Night,;East Sussex, England, UK

Singapore, Festival, Fire eating performance by tribal man from Sarawak.

Closeup burning Joss paper or Hell Bank Note for ancestors in Chinese new year or Tomb Sweeping Day.

BALI APRIL 2024 - Kecak Dance , Uluwatu Temple, Bali, Indonesia

Ceremonial sticks being lit at a festival

Los Escobazos” is a festival held every December 7th in Jarandilla de la Vera, on the eve of the celebration of the Immaculate Conception. Literally The Big Brooming” (as in broom used for sweeping), the festival re-enacts the descent of goat shepherds from the nearby Gredos mountains down to the village, lighting their way through the pitch dark night with broom torches.

Lewes, East Sussex, England. Seventeen Crosses Are Carried To Commemorate The 17 Protestant Martyrs Killed On Lewes Hight Street Between 1555 And 1557.

Folk festival bonfire of Saint John typical of folklore and Brazilian popular culture

Shinto festival, Matsuri, with homemade fireworks, Ono, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, Asia

Los Escobazos” is a festival held every December 7th in Jarandilla de la Vera, on the eve of the celebration of the Immaculate Conception. Literally The Big Brooming” (as in broom used for sweeping), the festival re-enacts the descent of goat shepherds from the nearby Gredos mountains down to the village, lighting their way through the pitch dark night with broom torches.

The body of a Hindu man is cremated at Pashupatinath Temple, near Kathmandu, Nepal.

Krampus Procession. Laives. Italy

Cremation Manikarnika Ghat Varanasi Uttar Pradesh India Asia India Copyright: xSubhashxSharma/DinodiaxPhotox

Man Dressed As Bishop In Front Of People With Burning Banners At Head Of Procession At Barcombe Bonfire Night, Barcombe, East Sussex, Uk

A fire in the chimney Bonfire and flames in the fireplacem in the country Copyright: xZoonar.com/MassimoxLamax 9656250

Hindu cremation, funeral pyre, Tiruchirappali, Tamil Nadu, India, Asia Copyright: MichaelxSzafarczyk 1235-1424

Los Escobazos” is a festival held every December 7th in Jarandilla de la Vera, on the eve of the celebration of the Immaculate Conception. Literally The Big Brooming” (as in broom used for sweeping), the festival re-enacts the descent of goat shepherds from the nearby Gredos mountains down to the village, lighting their way through the pitch dark night with broom torches.

Tamsweg: Easter fire, wooden towers made from spruce trunks and filled with brushwood, cross on top, spectators in Lungau, Salzburg, Austria Tamsweg Lungau Salzburg Austria

Vietnam, Hanoi. Tet Lunar New Year, burning paper money for good luck on the street

Funkenfeuer, bei Reichenbach, Allgäu, Bayern, Deutschland, Europa Funkenfeuer, bei Reichenbach, Allgäu, Bayern, Deutschland, Europa LicenseRF Copyright: xZoonar.com/WalterxG.xAllgöwerx 23252289

People dressed as monks walking in procession along street with cart, Bonfire Night; Lewes, East Sussex, UK

Or also May Fire at the Marienschacht

Firecrackers on diwali Bombay Mumbai Maharashtra India Copyright: xManojxNavalkar/DinodiaxPhotox

Cremation ceremony, Ubud region, Bali, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia

Woman praying, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.

Camel man around the fire in the Draa Valley in Morocco

Japan, Honshu, Tokyo, Asakusa Kannon Or Senso-Ji Temple. Detail Of Incense Burning In Joukoro Incense Burner Outside Temple. Visitors To The Temple Waft The Smoke Over Themselves In The Belief That It Will Keep Them Healthy. Note Swastika Symbol.

The ancient pagan fire. Traditional festivities in Constantim. Tras os Montes, Portugal

A student holding a candle at the Oregon Holocaust Memorial, Portland, Oregon, in rememberance of the victims of Darfur.

The Tipraha Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance (TIPRA) supporters raise slogans demanding a separate Greater Tipraland state for tribals, in Bermuda Ashram Para. Agratala. Tripura, India.

People flood the streets of Pasto, Narino as demonstrators commemorated the students who lost their lives during anti-government protests against president Ivan Duque's health and tax reform, police brutality and inequalities in the city on June 7, 2021 in Pasto, Narino.Sebastian Maya/Long Visual Press via Getty Images)

Traditional funeral, untouchable priest of the lowest caste tending pyre, Pashupatinath, Nepal, Asia

Burning pyre at the traditional site for cremation at the holy Bagmati River with other platforms and people in the back, Pashupatinath, Nepal, Asia

Church of the Chapel of the Calvary of the Buried Lord Church of the Chapel of the Calvary of the Buried Lord, Chichicastenango, municipality of the department of El Quiché, Guatemala, Central America Copyright: xZoonar.com/Tolox 22072677

The man burns in Black Rock City, Nevada.

Christmas decoration, nativity scene

Lingyin Temple, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, Asia

Burning Incense sticks. Phu Tay Ho Temple is dedicated to Thanh Mau, the Mother Goddess who appeared as a beautiful girl to a famous scholar out boating on the lake in the 17th Century

Maasai front of a campfire Masai Mara Kenya

Fireworks at Pooram Festival in Thrissur Trichur, Kerala, South India, India, Asia

Bywater art to commerative what locals call The Katrina Cross.

Cabalgata de Reyes Magos, Barcelona. The Cavalcade of Magi is a typical parade in Spanish cities, January 5

Arcabuceros, Moros y cristianos. Pollença. Sierra de Tramuntana. Mallorca. Islas Baleares. Spain.

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Carnival, Trinidad

Candles at the statue of Samantabhadra, Mount Emei near Chengdu, China, Asia

Ceremony of the Holy Light Jerusalem

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