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 MoreDec 24, 2022 | Cailleach, Christmas and Yule, Feasts, Quarter-days, Celebrations and the Celtic Calendar, Fire Festivals, Hogmanay, Wheel of the Year, Winter Solstice
The Cailleach Nollich or the Yeel Carlin is Scotland’s version of the Yule Log. This centuries old...
Read MoreDec 23, 2021 | Christmas and Yule, Druids, Feasts, Quarter-days, Celebrations and the Celtic Calendar, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Prehistory, Wheel of the Year, Winter Solstice
Did you know that once upon a time, Christmas was banned in Scotland- by the Kirk? And that...
Read MoreJan 5, 2021 | Christmas and Yule, Plant Lore
Dismantling the Yuletide greenery was an important event on Uphalieday, Twelfth Night or what is...
Read MoreDec 29, 2020 | Christmas and Yule, Feasts, Quarter-days, Celebrations and the Celtic Calendar, Orkney, Shetland, Trows, Vikings, Winter Solstice
The Yules was the old festive celebration in Orkney and Shetland derived from the old Norse...
Read MoreJan 27, 2020 | Christmas and Yule, Feasts, Quarter-days, Celebrations and the Celtic Calendar, Fire Festivals, Winter Solstice
I am convinced that the Scots are a nation of pyromaniacs. I used to work in a laboratory...
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