Satanic celebrations held around the world – All religions and belief systems have their core festivals, holidays and celebrations. Some holidays are larger than most; Halloween, Christmas, Hanukah, and Ramadan are celebrated all over the globe, and so most of us are familiar with their rituals and symbols even though we all may not celebrate some of these or any.
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Some celebrations revolve around ancestors, others are directly connected to religious beliefs, and others may be associated with the lunar calendar.
There are of course other festivals that are obscure to some, perhaps because we are not regularly exposed to the people who celebrate these days. For example there is Diwali, the Festival of Lights, a five-day Hindu festival that celebrates the goddess Lakshmi. Then there is the Spring Festival in China, also known as the Chinese New Year. There is also Wesak, one of the most important festivals for Buddhists, which celebrates Buddha’s birthday. Sikhs celebrate Vaisakhi, the Sikh New Year and the founding of the Sikh community.
There’s another religious group that we may not associate with as regularly having festivals – Satanists. Now, there is a wide range of people who fit into the Satanic category. There are those who ascribe to The Church of Satan, also referred to as LaVeyan Satanism, founded in 1966. LaVeyan Satanism does not revolve around Satan worship or the worship of any deities. The Church of Satan revolves around the belief that each individual is their own god. There are also Theistic Satanists, who believe Satan is an actual being to be worshipped. Finally, there are those people of the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim faith, and others, who believe that individuals who practice anything associated with paganism should be categorized as Satanists.
The following are towns that host festivals either directly associated with Satan or thought to be Satanic in nature by some.
10. Krampus Festival – Klagenfurt, Germany
Krampus is the anti-Santa Klaus. Santa Klaus is depicted as this jolly ol’ elf with a cheerful smile, bright red clothes and a red sack full of toys for children. Krampus on the other hand, is depicted as a snarling, horned figure with cloven hooves, sharp teeth and claws. Krampus drags chains behind himself, thrashing them about, and he has a black sack which he uses to stash away naughty children before taking them away to his underworld – where he eats them.
Much of the imagery around Krampus is associated as demonic, from the chains that are thought to have been those that were meant to bind the Devil, to his horns, to his goat-like body. One of the largest Krampus festivals is in the town of Klagenfurt in Germany. In this small town, nestled in an alpine valley, over 1,000 Krampi march through the town, in elaborate menacing costumes, for a parade on the feast of St. Nicholas, December 6th.
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