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Ogoh-Ogoh Parades in Multiple villages
Ogoh-ogoh parades happen on Pengrupukan, the night before Nyepi, when neighborhood youth groups carry towering papier-mâché effigies representing Bhuta Kala, negative cosmic forces, through village streets to gamelan music, torches, and firecrackers. Many effigies are burned at the ritual's close, an exorcism meant to clear negative energy before the island falls silent for Nyepi at dawn.
On the night before Nyepi, Bali's villages stage the Pengrupukan ritual, in which youth groups known as sekaa teruna parade enormous papier-mâché and bamboo effigies called ogoh-ogoh through the streets after dark, representing Bhuta Kala, the chaotic and negative forces of Balinese Hindu cosmology.