Category: Druids

The Winter Solstice: The World’s Oldest Festival

Dec 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...

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Turning the Wheel of the Year

Sep 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,...

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Christmas in Scotland through the Ages

Dec 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...

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Saint Columba: The Man, the Myth, the Legend

Jun 9, 2020 | Brechbennach (Relics of Saint Columba), Druids, Iona, Picts, Saint Columba

The Feast Day of Saint Columba is celebrated on the 9th of June, on the anniversary of his death....

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