| Saturday 1st |
Festival of Osiris, Day of the Banshees
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| Sunday 2nd |
Festival of Woden
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| Wednesday 5th |
Tonight will see bonfires and fireworks and guys being burnt, continuing the tradition of burning effigies of the evil spirits of the past old year. The New Year can then start with a fresh, clean beginning. At Ottery St. Mary in Devon, the tar barrel rolling is an annual event, with burning barrels being carried or rolled through the streets of the town.
Meanwhile in the Devon village of Shebbear, the bell-ringers are busy with crowbars. A large boulder lies on the green just outside the church and local legend has it that serious misfortune will befall the village if the stone is not turned every 5 November. |
| Sunday 9th |
Celtic festival of the Water Spirits.
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| Monday 10th |
Festival of Isis; St. Martin's Eve - Martinmas was a time of feasting and merrymaking, based on the custom of slaughtering animals now for salting down to last through the winter. A time of indoor gatherings, where tales were told and games played, in defiance of the darkening nights and deteriorating weather of the autumn season. |
| Tuesday 11th |
Celtic Day of the Faerie Sidhe; St. Martin's Day - was one of the last opportunities in the year to eat fresh meat |
| Thursday 13th |
Full Moon
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| Friday 14th |
Meeting night for new members of the Burnham Pagan Gathering Druid Feast of the Musicians |
| Sunday 16th |
sunset marks the beginning of Hekate night, celebrating the Goddess in all her aspects.
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| Tuesday 18th |
Festival of Herne the Hunter (Celtic)
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| Saturday 22nd |
Night of the Burning Lamps
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| Monday 24th |
Celtic Tree month of Reed ends
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| Tuesday 25th |
Celtic Tree month of Elder begins;br> St. Catherine's Day - patron of young girls, students and craftsmen whose work was based on a wheel, as St. Catherine was tortured on a wheel - hence the Catherine Wheel firework. She was also invoked in matters of matrimony, from the ninth century onwards. |
| Wednesday 26th |
Dark Moon
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| Thursday 27th |
Day of Parvati (Mother of the Universe and consort of Shiva, the Hindu God of destruction and rejuvenation.
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