August 19, 2015 by Aelyth Savage
Waking Summer at Edinburgh's Beltane Fire Festival
From time immemorial, Celtic pagans have celebrated four great festivals that straddled the equinoxes and solstices: Samhain, Imbolc, Beltane, and Lughnasadh. These festivals were both practical and mystical in nature, tied as they were to the herding of livestock and the appeasement of capricious spirits and faeries. Beltane historically occurred […]