Tag: wheel of the Year

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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The Scottish Origins of Halloween

Oct 27, 2021 | 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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The Bodach- Ancient God, Folk Myth or Malevolent Ghost?

Sep 21, 2021 | Bodach, Bride, Cailleach, Nine Maidens

Tigh nam Bodach is an ancient pagan shrine built to the Bodach and his wife, the Cailleach, in one...

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Turning the Wheel of the Year

Sep 22, 2020 | 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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Halloween Origins: Samhain and the Cailleach

Oct 30, 2019 | Beltane, Cailleach, Feasts, Quarter-days, Celebrations and the Celtic Calendar, Myths and Legends, Samhain and Halloween, Wheel of the Year

The origins of Halloween date back to an ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain (pronounced...

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