 Beltane Fire Festival - Reviews from across the web
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Beltane Fire Festival, Edinburgh, United Kingdom : Reviews of Beltane Fire Festival - Yahoo! Travel
The Beltane Fire Festival, held on Calton Hill on 30th April, is a neo-pagan fertility ceremony. Revellers in costume and bodypaint dance around the hill to the s...
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Edinburgh forum: Whats the Beltane Fire Festival really like? - TripAdvisor
My friend and I will be visiting Edinburgh next April, and we read that the Beltane Fire Festival will be on during our stay. We read that it's a Celtic fertility rite, but what is it really like? Are there ch...
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Scotsman.com News - Beltane Fire Festival - Turning up the heat for the biggest Beltane of them all
Each festival costs around £40,000 to stage, with the costs sometimes threatening to cripple the voluntary organisation that runs it. Luckily, city leaders have agreed to cut the cost of a public entertainment licence for the festival by two-thirds, meaning the organisers pay a £1,000 fee to stage...
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Scotsman.com News - Beltane Fire Festival - Firewater back for Beltane as alcohol ban goes up in smoke
The festival was held to celebrate the start of summer, and coincided with the ancient pastoral practice of moving livestock to their summer grazing. It did not occur on any fixed solar date, but tended to be held on the first full moon after May Day. The modern Edinburgh Beltane takes parts of thes...
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Beltane Fire Festival in Edinburgh - Ceremony
The Green Man, her consort for the year and symbolic of summer growth, presents himself and the procession starts off around the hill, guided by the druidic Blue Men and driven by pounding drum rhythms. The procession passes first through a fire arch. It then visits sites representing the four eleme...
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Beltane Fire Festival in Edinburgh
Beltane somehow lodged in the consciousness of a whole network of people, including almost everyone I knew... I gate- crashed the drumming, so was right in there the whole way and spent the night with friends admiring the view, listening to marimbas, contemplating my place in Edinburgh. I felt at lo...
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