Summer Solstice Celebrations – Midsummer In The Celtic Lands

When Christianity came to Great Britain, the focus of the midsummer celebrations became the feast of St John the Baptist lying on the 24th of June. Most saint’s days mark the anniversary of their deaths, fairly frequently as martyrs, other than unusually the feast of St John the Baptist celebrates his alleged birthday, rather fitting as the Summer Solstice represents fertility and new early stages, not passing away and endings. Within some parts of Britain, the conventional Midsummer Bonfires are unmoving lit. The Old Cornwall Society invigorated the custom in the early 20th century and bonfires are now lit every year on top of a quantity of of the Cornish hills. During Penzance, a weeklong festival called ‘Golowan’ starts on the Friday adjoining to St John’s Day and culminates in Mazey Day when bonfires are lit and fireworks light awake the skies. Within the Scottish Borders, the town of Peebles holds a Beltane Week, and in Wales a folk-dancing festival is apprehended in Cardiff on the feast of St John.

So what are you going to accomplish to celebrate the greatest daytime of the year? Build a bonfire and allow sour a few fireworks to celebrate the life-giving affection of the Sun and the abundance of the Earth. It is a day to create desires, cast spells and have your future divined. Just shut your eyes and picture what Midsummer night was like in Great Britain a thousand being before, with hundreds of bonfires lighting up and about the summer sky on or after the north of Scotland to the tip of Cornwall. So like, as the Summer Solstice is unmoving a day intended for feasting, dancing and celebrations.
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