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 on top of the 24th of June. Most saint’s days mark the anniversary of their deaths, fairly time and again as martyrs, excluding unusually the feast of St John the Baptist celebrates his alleged birthday, rather suitable as the Summer Solstice represents fertility and new early period, not passing away and endings. Inside some parts of Britain, the conventional Midsummer Bonfires are unmoving lit. The Old Cornwall Society revitalized the custom in the early 20th century and bonfires are now lit all year on top of a number of of the Cornish hills. During Penzance, a weeklong festival called ‘Golowan’ starts on the Friday contiguous to St John’s Day and culminates in Mazey Day when bonfires are lit and fireworks light awake the skies. During 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 perform to celebrate the longest daylight of the year? Build a bonfire and let rancid a few fireworks to celebrate the life-giving warmness of the Sun and the abundance of the Earth. It is a day to create needs, cast spells and have your future divined. Just close your eyes and picture what Midsummer night was like in Great Britain a thousand being back, with hundreds of bonfires lighting out of bed the summer sky as of the north of Scotland to the tip of Cornwall. So like, as the Summer Solstice is immobile a day designed for feasting, dancing and celebrations.
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