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 over and over again as martyrs, other than unusually the feast of St John the Baptist celebrates his alleged birthday, pretty fitting as the Summer Solstice represents fertility and innovative early period, not passing away and endings. During some parts of Britain, the conventional Midsummer Bonfires are unmoving lit. The Old Cornwall Society revitalized the custom in the premature 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 out of bed the skies. Inside the Scottish Borders, the town of Peebles holds a Beltane Week, and in Wales a folk-dancing festival is held in Cardiff on the feast of St John.

So what are you going to do to celebrate the longest daylight hours of the year? Build a bonfire and let rancid a few fireworks to celebrate the life-giving heat of the Sun and the abundance of the Earth. It is a day to make desires, cast spells and have your future divined. Just shut your eyes and picture what Midsummer night was like in Great Britain a thousand existence previously, with hundreds of bonfires lighting awake 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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