Beltane Fire Society performers celebrate the coming of summer in the 2013 Beltane Fire Festival on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland. Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images Pagans in the Northern Hemisphere ...

What Is Beltane and Why Do We Celebrate It? Beltane is the name of a Gaelic May Day festival, typically celebrated in Ireland, Isle of Man and Scotland. Taking place between the spring equinox and the ...

The Glen Ellen property was developed by Mary Ellen Pleasant, an abolitionist and the country’s first self-made female millionaire. Cementing its place in history, the National Park Service awarded ...

ON April 30, thousands will climb Calton Hill for this year’s Beltane Festival, a party which includes fire, drumming and dancers dressed in little more than a coat of red paint. Did you know with a ...

May 1 marks the Celtic festival of Beltane, also referred to as May Day. As spring is underway and summer approaches, many neopagans and Wiccans around the world celebrate Beltane. Here are some facts ...

A traditional Celtic fire festival to mark the coming of summer has been held at Butser Ancient Farm in Hampshire. The experimental archaeology site in Waterlooville hosted the burning of a giant ...

Most of us will recognise the beginning of June as the start of the summer. But centuries ago, Scotland actually celebrated the new season on May 1, with an ancient festival that marked the end of ...

Take a dawn chorus walk, go forest-bathing or sit by a glowing bonfire for a night of Celtic story-telling. For one magical week, visitors can experience the historic gardens of Wentworth Woodhouse as ...

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