Tag: wheel of the Year

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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The Scottish Origins of Halloween

Oct 27, 2023 | Feasts, Quarter-days, Celebrations and the Celtic Calendar, Samhain and 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

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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Grin Iron Wife: Witch, Ghost or Goddess?

Jul 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...

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Cailleach Nollich : The Burning of the Old Woman of Winter

Dec 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...

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Hogmanay: The Traditions of Scotland’s New Year’s Eve

Dec 31, 2021 | Feasts, Quarter-days, Celebrations and the Celtic Calendar, Hogmanay

Hogmanay is by far the biggest celebration in the Scottish year. Traditionally it surpasses...

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