The Winter Solstice: The World’s Oldest Festival
The World’s Oldest Festival occurs at the Winter Solstice. The ancient ones were hunters and spent...
Read MoreDec 21, 2023 | Bride, Cailleach, Chambered cairn, Christmas and Yule, Druids, Fire Festivals, Hogmanay, Maeshowe, Neolithic, Orkney, Shetland, Wheel of the Year, Winter Solstice
The World’s Oldest Festival occurs at the Winter Solstice. The ancient ones were hunters and spent...
Read MoreHalloween began in the dawn of history as a Celtic harvest festival called Samhain (pronounced...
Read MoreSep 18, 2023 | Beltane, Calanais, Chambered cairn, Druids, Feasts, Quarter-days, Celebrations and the Celtic Calendar, Fire Festivals, Imbolc, Lughnasadh, Lunastral, Lammas, Maeshowe, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Orkney, Prehistory, Samhain and Halloween, Stenness, Stone Circle, Summer Solstice, Wheel of the Year, Winter Solstice
The turning of the wheel of the year is something which is always with us. At the summer solstice,...
Read MoreAug 1, 2023 | Feasts, Quarter-days, Celebrations and the Celtic Calendar, Lughnasadh, Lunastral, Lammas
Lughnasadh is a festival where the first fruits of the harvest are celebrated on the 1st August....
Read MoreJul 20, 2023 | Cailleach, Feasts, Quarter-days, Celebrations and the Celtic Calendar, Grin Iron Wife, Myths and Legends, Sea witch, Summer Solstice
Grin Iron Wife lies waiting. Sometimes she waits on the skerries, sometimes she lurks on cliffs...
Read MoreJun 21, 2023 | Cailleach, Calanais, Feasts, Quarter-days, Celebrations and the Celtic Calendar, Lewis, Maeshowe, Myths and Legends, Neolithic, Prehistory, Stone Circle, Summer Solstice, Witches
Many people visit the Calanais Stones, on the Isle of Lewis at sunrise on the Summer solstice....
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