Tag: Yule

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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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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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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Yuletide Greenery

Jan 5, 2021 | Christmas and Yule, Plant Lore

Dismantling the Yuletide greenery was an important event on Uphalieday, Twelfth Night or what is...

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