Beltane
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Beltane or Bealtaine is the Gaelic May Day festival, marking the beginning of summer. It is traditionally held on 1 May, or about midway between the spring equinox and summer solstice. Historically, i
Bealtaine bonfire at Uisneach, near Mullingar in County Westmeath, Ireland, in 2022
Beltany stone circle in Ireland
Beltane Fire Festival, Edinburgh, 2019
Beltane Fire Festival, Edinburgh, 2019 - participants dressed as cattle
Samhain
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Samhain or Sauin is a Gaelic festival on 1 November marking the end of the harvest season in autumn and beginning of winter or the "darker half" of the year. It is also the Irish and Scottish Gaelic n
Beltane
…In Scottish Gaelic it is Là Bealltainn (), and in Manx Gaelic Boaltinn or Boaldyn. It is one of the four main Gaelic seasonal festivals—along with Samhain, Imbolc, and Lughnasadh—and is similar to the Welsh Calan Mai. Beltane is mentioned in the earliest Irish literature and is associated with important…
Samonios on the Coligny calendar
The hero Fionn fighting Aillen, who is said to have burned Tara each Samhain
The 'Cave of Cruachan', one of the many 'gateways to the Otherworld' whence beings and spirits were said to have emerged on Samhain
Soul cakes made for Samhain