Bizarre Celebrations | Crapping Christmas Tradition

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This is one of the weirder Christmas traditions I have ever heard of, and very strange, even to me.

The photo above is of a figure some people in Spain use to beat on with sticks. As they beat the figure, or something that is similar to it, they say the words “¡caga tió!”.

Essentially that's to encourage the object to to poo something out. Really, I'm not kidding!

Of course what is being dropped is little goodies like nuts, torrons and candie. After this goes on and nothing is left, the final object is a salt herring which is shared by the family or community.

This figure actually is set partly into a fireplace when ordered to start pooing, for what reason, I'm not sure.

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Mouse in Trap Halloween Costume

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Now here's a really fun Halloween costume, which is very unlikely to be duplicated in your circle of family and friends.

Love this mouse in a trap costume, and that little tongue sticking out like it has just been caught is great. I only wonder how much that sucker weighs.

Great Halloween costume.

Bizarre Celebrations | Flintstone Themed Wedding

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This double wedding based upon the them of The Flintstones is hilarious, creative and fun.

One thing I like about weddings with themes is when the guests get into the spirit of it and dress according to the them, which they did here, coming dressed as cavemen and cavewomen, adding to the spirit of the event.

As far as the two couples getting married, one couple dressed as Fred and Wilma Flintsone, while the other couple dressed as cartoon best friends Barney and Betty Rubble.

And you probably can guess by now what the wedding march was, with the couples going all the way: the theme to "The Flintstones" of course.

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Bizarre Celebrations | Zombie Wedding

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This zombie wedding celebration is just plain strange, but it is interesting.

I like all the bridesmaids and best man and the others entering into the zombie spirit and playing their parts as well.

I wonder what inspires a morbid wedding of this sort? You would think the opposite of death would be the theme, but you never know when it comes to what makes people tick.

Evidently this couple are fans of zombie stories and themes, or they're just waaay out there. Either way, they definitely got attention from their zombie nuptials.

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Bizarre Celebrations | Evil Clowns

Evil Clowns

I'll never think of clowns the same again, and you can forget that birthday party I was going to have them show up at.

I guess there's nothing sacred anymore, and everything is going to be tainted according to an artists conception or desire to provoke.

But really, these are just a little scary and creepy. Picture having them come to a little kids birthday party or other celebration: "shut up kid and just enjoy the show!"

Maybe we'll do Tinkerbell this year. Oh wait, I just saw ... never mind. I never liked celebrations anyhow, and I'll pass on it until I recover.

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50 Ideas for a Twilight Vampire Wedding

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Some Twilight fans are going all the way, as they're now including the Twilight theme as part of their wedding celebrations.

I don't know though, picture youself 30 years from now and explaining the reason for the fangs of you and your bridesmaids (I wonder if the groom wore fangs as well?).

Someone even went through the process of creating a video of 50 ideas to encourage and offer up ways to successfully be true to the vampire wedding theme.

By the way, did you notice the bouquets being held by the bridesmaids? Not you usual are they?

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Bizarre Celebrations | Zombie Festivals

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One of the more recent bizarre festival and celebration has been the zombie walk or zombie festival. One of those has started to be held annually in Madrid, Spain, and includes all the zombie accessories you need to look the part.

The asserted idea behind holding the festival is that there is no more room in hell, so the undead now walk the streets of Madrid.

Of course makeup stores in the area are more than glad to offer the zombie wannabees their choice of accessories like "terror eyes" to mimic the undead.

LKM, a Spanish makeup business is behind the organization of the festival.



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Bizarre Celebrations | Thai Vegetarian Festival

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The Thai Vegetarian Festival has to be one of the more extreme out there, and it shows in the picture included, as many participants go through extreme body modification to which "purifies minds and bodies."
I think I'll stick with prune juice.

Besides getting the cheeks pierced with a variety of objects, other practices are being spiked in the body, walking on hot coals, and climbing ladders with bladed rungs on them.

Many of the participants are in trances as this happens.

Devotees believe they will receive good fortune for observing these practices.

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Bizarre Celebrations | A Wedding Cake to Kill - Literally

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I'm not sure if you could call this a wedding cake or a divorce cake, but either way it definitely has a message to say, and you don't need any words to communicate it.

Do you ever wonder who sits around thinking up this stuff? A little scary.

Whoever thought up this cake takes life a little too seriously, unless, it's a subtle joke or hint from the bride what she has in store for him if he doesn't take his vows seriously.

Or in the case of it being a divorce cake, she's telling him what his end is about to be. Or in other words, she's going to suck him dry.

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Bizarre Celebrations | Tossing Babies 50 Feet off of Tower

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Some of you may be highly disturbed by those video of throwing babies off the top of a 50 foot tower, and rightly so.

This is practiced in the an area of India named Solapur, in Maharashtra.

What's the reasoning behind it? Strangely enough, the parents believe their children will enjoy long and healthy lives after being tossed from the tower.

Now the secret is getting them to survive the plunge, which allegedly has never resulted in an injury.

I have to admit when you watch the babies fall and land, they've got it down to a science as far as the baby bouncing and being caught in one motion.

But still, I'm surprised no reports of broken necks or something have ever occurred.
Who practices this? Mostly Moslems, with a smaller number of Hindus participating.

Parents who have their children tossed normally do it after becoming pregnant after praying a what's called the Shrine of Baba Umer Dargah.

You would think just a call to mom and dad would be enough to celebrate. Anyway, what strange practice to toss your baby off of a 50-foot tower.

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Bizarre Subcultures | Norwegian Black Metal

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Photographer Peter Beste has been known for his exploration of subcultures, and in his latest work, he shows us the type of culture surrounding Norwegian Black Metal. The book is named "True Norwegian Black Metal."

Norwegian Black Metal emerged in the early 1990s, with an extremely dark underside, which included murders and arson; especially against medieval wooden church buildings.

They've also been known do desecrate graveyards.

According to Beste, it originally started out as a juvenile fad, which quickly became a war against Christianity. It also advocates a return to the worship of Norse gods.

They completely reject mainstream society in all its forms.

Included in his book are a look at black metal acts like Darkthrone, Mayhem, Emperor, Satryicon, Enslaved and Immortal.

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Bizarre Celebrations | Celebrating 30 Years of Fangoria

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Fangoria recently celebrated its 30th year of bringing all the horror and gore it could think of to horror genre fans.

Horror fans were definitely up to the challenge of dressing in the most macabre creations they could think of.

Some of those included schoolgirl zombies, killer condoms, nurse zombies and blood baths, among a plethora of others.

There was the obligatory horror movies for fans to watch, along with attempts for zombie walkers to break the record.

Fangoria fans had a blast.

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Bizarre Celebrations | How about a Birthday Cake of a Rat Eating Your Arm?

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I'm not sure who thinks of a birthday cake with a rat chewing an arm that has been dismembered, but that's what someone did when they thought of their loved one.

Just imagine: "Honey, when I thought of you, I thought of a big rat chewing on your arm after it had been torn off from the socket. Would you like chocolate or vanilla ice cream with that?"

Just a little bit of a weird birthday idea if you ask me.

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