Wheel of the Year
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The Wheel of the Year is an annual cycle of seasonal festivals marking the year's chief solar events and the midpoints between them. Modern pagan observances of the cycle adapt a range of folk traditi
The Witches' Cottage, where the Bricket Wood coven celebrated their sabbats (2006)
Neopagans honoring the dead as part of a Samhain ritual
Kołomir – the Slavic example of Wheel of the Year indicating seasons of the year. Four-point and eight-point swastika-shaped wheels were more common.
Painted Wheel of the Year from the Museum of Witchcraft, Boscastle
Lammas
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Lammas, also known as Loaf Mass Day, is a Christian holiday celebrated in some English-speaking countries on 1 August. The name originates from the word "loaf" in reference to bread and "Mass" in refe
Wheel of the Year
…Scotland, where the accused witch (Issobell Smyth) was alleged to attend witches meetings "every quarter" at Candlemas (2 February), Roodmas (3 May), Lammas (1 August), and Hallowmas (1 November). The White Goddess (1948) by Robert Graves suggested that, despite Christianisation, the importance of agricultural…
A loaf of bread
On Loaf Mass Day, bread is brought into the parish church to be blessed by a Christian cleric.
Exeter's Lammas Fair glove in 2015