Edinburgh Beltane 2010 Bonfire

The Beltane Fire Festival is held every year during the night of 30th April on Calton Hill in Edinburgh. An audience of around 12 thousand people come to share the spectacular procession. Witness this spectacular revival of the ancient Celtic fertility festival in the heart of the Scottish capital.

Justifiably famous for its intensity and colour, the event has become a much-loved feature of the Edinburgh calendar since it was first organised in the mid-1980s.

The name itself is thought to have derived from a Gaelic-Celtic word meaning bright/sacred fire. It was held to mark and celebrate the blossoming of spring, and coincided with the ancient pastoral event of moving livestock to their summer grazing.

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Travel & Events

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• Beltane
• Edinburgh
• pagan
• festival
• fire
• sparks
• event
• calton
• hill
• 2010

[redfairy90]

This looks so amazing! im a newly converted Pagan and cant wait to go next year! Ive read about it, but seeing it happen is amazing. Thank you for posting and bright blessings!

[jazzzyerk]

@redfairy90 Your welcome. I'm lucky enough to be from Edinburgh and it's always an amazing night. Bright blessings back at you!

[Gaelheretic4]

My birthday falls on Beltane. WIN

[jazzzyerk]

J-A-C-K-P-O-T

[0ooohrene]

My buttocks finally make it onto youtube...

[jazzzyerk]

Ha! very fine they are too. Hope you don't mind :)

[LilithMacLeod]

Cool..)0(

[0ooohrene]

@Anarcho1977classwar Ahh, you've found me out! I'[m an atheist in it for the performance fun. Oddly I watch Benny Hill far more often then I do the Wicker Man, I have to be really drunk to watch that tat.

Go on, take some Beltane footage and stick 'Yakkety Sax' on top...

[Anarcho1977classwar]

@0ooohrene We didn't realise so-called Pagans had no sense of humour?! You're not a secret Presbyterian by any chance? :P Maybe you should stop watching the film 'the Wicker Man' on DVD everyday and watch the Benny Hill Show instead... :P :D

[gulwant]

@jettiesgirl soz </3

[gulwant]

@jettiesgirl NOTHING

[0ooohrene]

If I minded, I should wear more clothes in pubilc...

[Anarcho1977]

@0ooohrene Never mind, mate! :P :D