Category: Beltaine
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From Sheerie to Jack-o’-Lantern—Luring Travelers to Death
Floating like greenish-gold or cerulean blue orbs over bogs, swamps, and marshland at twilight, water sheerie (SHEAR-ree) appear to be small children or pinky-sized faeries with lanterns. Sometimes murmuring a musical mewl, they entice lost or weary travelers to follow them to a warm, well-lit haven in the distance. But the sheerie never let unsuspecting…
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Fired Up—
Bealtaine Celebrates Fire, Fertility, Festivities, and Faeries Bealtaine, the Gaelic May Day festival, celebrates the powerful Sun, the fertile Earth, new life, and the official start of summer. Celebrated about halfway between the spring equinox and the summer solstice, it is one of the four cross-quarter days and one of the eight seasonal celebrations of…