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    Beltane or Bealtaine (/ˈbɛl.teɪn/; Irish pronunciation: [ˈbʲal̪ˠt̪ˠəʲnə], approximately /ˈb(j)ɒltɪnə/ B(Y)OL-tin-ə) is the Gaelic May Day festival, marking...
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    Beltane Fire Festival is an annual participatory arts event and ritual, held on 30 April on Calton Hill in Edinburgh. The modern Beltane Fire Festival...
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    include Walpurgis Night in central and northern Europe, the Gaelic festival Beltane, the Welsh festival Calan Mai, and May devotions to the Blessed Virgin...
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    midpoints between them. The four Celtic festivals were known to the Gaels as Beltane (1 May), Lughnasadh (1 August), Samhain (1 November), and Imbolc (1 February)...
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    Sports Centre, before moving into the nearby Beltane Park for the beginning of the 2011–12 season.[2] The Beltane, as it is known locally, is likely to be...
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    people to attend an annual event in celebration of the Gaelic festival of Beltane. Extensive quarrying has impacted much of the monument's setting to the...
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    thousands of people from all over the world. On the night of 30 April the Beltane Fire Festival takes place on Calton Hill, involving a procession followed...
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  • "Ancient Pines" – 3:35 "Huron 'Beltane' Fire Dance" takes its inspiration, in part, from Huron festivities and the Gaelic Beltane celebrations. "Breaking the...
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    several times. The depression eventually became Tropical Storm Beltane, and lasted 17 days. Beltane caused flooding across Madagascar due to heavy rainfall,...
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  • Beltane Fire Society is a charity run by a board of volunteers, who oversee the year-round operation of the organisation responsible for the Beltane Fire...
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    also involved lighting bonfires at night, for example the Gaelic festival Beltane. Local variants of Walpurgis Night are observed throughout Northern and...
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  • up Beltaine in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bealtaine (also called Beltane) is an ancient Gaelic holiday. Beltaine may also refer to: Beltaine (band)...
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    Neopagan handfasting ceremony at Avebury (Beltane 2005)...
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    (as described in Acts 2). In England it took on some characteristics of Beltane, which originated from the pagan celebration of Summer's Day, the beginning...
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    Wasteland Well of wisdom Festivals Samhain Calan Gaeaf Imbolc Gŵyl Fair Beltane Calan Mai Lughnasadh Calan Awst Folklore Irish Welsh Scottish  Category...
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    Wasteland Well of wisdom Festivals Samhain Calan Gaeaf Imbolc Gŵyl Fair Beltane Calan Mai Lughnasadh Calan Awst Folklore Irish Welsh Scottish  Category...
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    June, July and August. By the Irish calendar, summer begins on 1 May (Beltane) and ends on 31 July (Lughnasadh).[citation needed] Days continue to lengthen...
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    Wasteland Well of wisdom Festivals Samhain Calan Gaeaf Imbolc Gŵyl Fair Beltane Calan Mai Lughnasadh Calan Awst Folklore Irish Welsh Scottish  Category...
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  • eve of the first day of summer in the Northern hemisphere (see May 1): Beltane begins at sunset in the Northern hemisphere, Samhain begins at sunset in...
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  • festival in Peebles is called the Beltane, and involves (as with many Borders festivals) a Common Riding. The Beltane, proclaimed at the cross, culminates...
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    believed in an Otherworld. Their four yearly festivals – Samhain, Imbolc, Beltane and Lughnasa – continued to be celebrated into modern times. The Gaels...
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    carol singing. Some of its traditions parallel the Gaelic May Day festival Beltane, and other May Day traditions in Europe. Traditionally, bonfires (coelcerth)...
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    Spiral dance Holidays Wheel of the Year Solstice Equinox Imbolc Ostara Beltane Midsummer Lughnasadh Mabon Samhain Yule Esbat Wild Hunt Paraphernalia Magical...
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    Scotland. Also in Ireland and Scotland, bonfires were lit for the festivals Beltane and Samhain, and 18th–19th century accounts suggest the fires, smoke and...
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    Man. Imbolc is one of the four Gaelic seasonal festivals, along with: Beltane, Lughnasadh and Samhain. Imbolc is mentioned in early Irish literature...
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    early February (near Imbolc or Candlemas) and continues until early May (Beltane), with Saint Patrick's Day (17 March) being regarded as the middle day...
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  • project Hypnosis Mic. In 2020, Leetspeak Monsters released the maxi-single "Beltane", named after the Gaelic bonfire ritual. Current members D13 (skeleton...
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    of the four Gaelic seasonal festivals, along with Samhain, Imbolc and Beltane. It corresponds to the Welsh Gŵyl Awst and the English Lammas. Lughnasadh...
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    All Saints' Day (religious) Beginning of the Nativity Fast (religious) Beltane / Samhain (religious) Barack Obama Day in Alabama (Perry County, AL) D...
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    Hofbräuhaus brewery at Oktoberfest Germany (2013) Seasonal festivals, such as Beltane, are determined by the solar and the lunar calendars and by the cycle of...
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