Beltane

Beltane or Bealtaine is the Gaelic May Day festival, marking the beginning of summer. It is traditionally held on 1st May, or about midway between the spring equinox and... Wikipedia

• Also called:  Lá Bealtaine no (language?), Latha Bealltainn no (language?), Laa Boaltinn/Boaldyn no (language?), Beltain, Beltine, Beltany
• Observed by:  Historically: Gaels, Today: Irish people, Scottish people, Manx people, Modern Pagans
• Type:  Cultural, Pagan (Celtic neopaganism, Wicca)
• Significance:  Beginning of summer
• Celebrations:  lighting bonfires, decorating homes with May flowers, making May bushes, visiting holy wells, feasting
• Date:  1 May, (or 1 November for Neopagans in the Southern Hemisphere)
• date:  1 May, (or 1 November for Neopagans in the Southern Hemisphere)
• Frequency:  annual
• Related to:  May Day, Calan Mai, Walpurgis Night
• Data source:  DuckDuckGo