Beltane Fire Festival
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Beltane Fire Festival is an annual participatory arts event and ritual, held on 30 April on Calton Hill in Edinburgh.
Beltane Fire Festival Red Men
Fire festival dancers, 2006
The need-fire is created, and from it the torches lit
The May Queen enters with her handmaidens
Need-fire
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In European folklore, a need-fire is a fire kindled by friction, which is lit in a ritual and used as protective magic against murrain, plague and witchcraft. It was a tradition in parts of Europe, pr
Beltane Fire Festival
…requirements, and Edinburgh Council requests, the festival has in recent years moved to being a ticketed event. Gallery of Beltane photographs The need-fire is created, and from it the torches lit The May Queen enters with her handmaidens The procession passes under Fire Arch The May Queen leads the procession…
A modern Rodnovery need-fire drill in Russia