Beltane

Beltane or Bealtaine is the Gaelic May Day festival, marking the beginning of summer. It is traditionally held on 1 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