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...
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Category: Feasts, Quarter-days, Celebrations and the Celtic Calendar
The Scottish Origins of Halloween
Halloween began in the dawn of history as a Celtic harvest festival called Samhain (pronounced...
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Turning the Wheel of the Year
The turning of the wheel of the year is something which is always with us. At the summer solstice,...
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Lughnasadh, Lunastal or Lammas: The Celtic Harvest Festival
Lughnasadh is a festival where the first fruits of the harvest are celebrated on the 1st August....
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Grin Iron Wife: Witch, Ghost or Goddess?
Grin Iron Wife lies waiting. Sometimes she waits on the skerries, sometimes she lurks on cliffs...
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Calanais: The Sun, The Moon, The Goddess and The Stones
Many people visit the Calanais Stones, on the Isle of Lewis at sunrise on the Summer solstice....
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