Ancient Celts ate and drank heartily during their traditional fire festival on the eve of May Day, which celebrated the return of the light half of the year. From the fulachta fiaolha (cooking pits of the Celtic tribes), this feast features organic flavors of the wild, with foods gathered from the seas, the forests, and the meadows.

We know very little about the ancient celebration of Beltane. It most certainly existed, but it was probably very different from how most of us celebrate it today.

The May Queen, Beltane, Edinburgh. The May Queen is a girl crowned with flowers who is selected to ride or walk at the front of a parade for May Day celebrations. She wears a white gown to symbolise purity and usually a tiara or crown. Her duty is to begin the May Day celebrations.

May Queen | Beltane Fire Festival | Spring | andrewcuthbertson

Tomorrow on #MoreMusicBreakfast, @TimLihoreau plays five pieces for the first of May!

taken at the Beltane bash, Russell square London

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Soon May Day Eve will be upon us - so I'm sharing this recipe posted last year at Gather Patreon. This Maibowle Cream Cake - made and glazed with Maibowle Wine - is infused with sweet woodruff, a pretty unassuming little forest herb linked with May Day fertility magic for literal ages. Said to bestow,…

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