Embed from Getty ImagesYou might know the word Samhain as the original Halloween, celebrated by ancient pagans in the British Isles. That's the short version. There are four Celtic festivals called Imbolc, Beltane, Lughn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/10/08/6-Facts-About-Samhain/<p>The city of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, calls this special bus pass a 'health ticket". You can pay a regular fare or do twenty squats in front of a camera. If you do so, you get to ride for free for the next seve...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/09/29/In-This-Town-You-Can-Ride-the-Bus-for-Free-if-You-Do-20-Squats/Long ago, four mysterious beings, who were both male and female, sailed from Tahiti to Hawaii and brought the art of healing with them. They were named Kapuni, Kinohi, Kahaloa, and Kapaemahu. The Hawaiians erected four g...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/09/15/Kapaemahu-The-Hawaiian-Story-of-the-Stones/Every year, the beautiful countryside around Nishikan ward, Niigata Precture, Japan holds the Wara Art Festival. Artists gather to carefully assemble huge, vibrant sculptures of animals made from straw wrapped around woo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/09/14/The-Enormous-Straw-Sculptures-of-the-Wara-Art-Festival/The village of Trasmoz, Spain, has only a few dozen year-round residents, but it's a mecca for thousands of people who take part in their witchcraft festival every July. Or visit their sorcery museum any time of the year...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/08/23/Excommunicated-Spanish-Witch-Village-Turns-Curse-into-Tourist-Cash/<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I’ll leave the judging to you. Art, to some extent, is subjective. Julia Ducournau’s </span><a href="ht...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/07/23/Movie-About-A-Woman-Who-Gets-Impregnated-By-A-Car-Wins-Cannes-Film-Festival-s-Top-Prize/<p><em style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Big Cats</em><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> is an exhibition by photojour...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/05/24/Exhausted-Big-Cats-Now-In-HD/<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Marc Pettersen’s </span><a href="https://www.heresanotherstory.com/" target="_blank" style=&qu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/05/21/Street-Murals-Move-Thanks-To-VR/Sasha Gray, organiser of the forthcoming Birdsong exhibition to occur in Doncaster as the outcome of the programme of commissions, gives an overview of the development of the journey in making the works that the artists...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/05/17/Birdsong-artworks/Deep in the heart of the Amazon, in the riverside town of Maués, they grow a fruit you may have never heard of. Guaraná grows in other places, but Maués is the heart of its production, as guaran&aacu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2021/04/30/Guaran-the-Caffeinated-Fruit-That-Looks-Like-an-Eyeball/
