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, pretty time and 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 first phase, not passing away and endings. Within some parts of Britain, the usual Midsummer Bonfires are immobile lit. The Old Cornwall Society revived the custom in the early 20th century and bonfires are currently lit all year resting on a number of of the Cornish hills. Inside Penzance, a weeklong festival called ‘Golowan’ starts on the Friday nearby to St John’s Day and culminates in Mazey Day when bonfires are lit and fireworks light up and about the skies. During 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 of the year? Build a bonfire and allow sour a quantity of fireworks to celebrate the life-giving heat 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 existence before, with hundreds of bonfires lighting awake the summer sky on or after the north of Scotland to the tip of Cornwall. So enjoy, as the Summer Solstice is immobile a day meant for feasting, dancing and celebrations.
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