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* '''Deliverance Days''' -  Mid-Spring, there is an eight-day celebration, which families observe, marking the concepts of freedom.  Each night contains a festive meal.  Days are meant for meditation and reflection.
  
  

Revision as of 11:43, 1 April 2007

Winter

Spring

  • Jester's Holiday
  • Deliverance Days - Mid-Spring, there is an eight-day celebration, which families observe, marking the concepts of freedom. Each night contains a festive meal. Days are meant for meditation and reflection.


  • Beltane - Great bonfires mark a time of purification and transition, heralding in the season of summer, accompanied with ritual acts to protect the people from any harm by Otherworldly spirits.


Summer

  • Wedding Sunday - A ceremonious Sunday during which the most weddings take place - a quantity greater than any other day in the year, the last Sunday of Summer.




Autumn

  • Samhain - In observance of the 'dark' half of the year (which begins with Samhain), a festival and royal assembly are dedicated to the harvest and the dead.