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, pretty frequently as martyrs, except unusually the feast of St John the Baptist celebrates his alleged birthday, fairly fitting as the Summer Solstice represents fertility and new early period, not passing away and endings. Inside some parts of Britain, the usual Midsummer Bonfires are motionless lit. The Old Cornwall Society revitalized the custom in the premature 20th century and bonfires are now lit every year resting on a number of of the Cornish hills. During 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 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 apprehended in Cardiff on the feast of St John.<br><br>So what are you going to perform to celebrate the greatest daylight of the year? Build a bonfire and let rotten a few fireworks to celebrate the life-giving heat of the Sun and the abundance of the Earth. It is a day to make requirements, cast spells and have your future divined. Just close your eyes and picture what Midsummer night was like in Great Britain a thousand time back, with hundreds of bonfires lighting up and about the summer sky as of 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.<br>Best Regards - [http://midsummerxx.co.uk midsummer] - m1dsumm3rxx