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Silver Bough. Volume 3, A Calendar of Scottish National Festivals: Hallowe'en to Yule / F. Marian McNeill. Glasgow: William MacLellan, 1961

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Collection number: NAMOSRL GR144 .M24 v.3 (Non-circulating)
About "In this third volume, I complete the cycke [from volume 2] from Hallowe'en - the Samhuinn of our Celtic forebears, which marked the entry of Winter and of the Celitc year - to Yule, when our Scandinavian forebears celebrated the winter solstice. Both these nature-festivals were in due course Christianised by the Church, Samhuinn, which was in origin a Festival of the Dead, being identified with the Feast of All Saints and All Souls, and Yule, "the Birthhday of the Uncoonquered Sun," being...
Dates: Publication: 1961
Found in: Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections / MS-150-1, New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library (NAMOSRL) / Series 12: NAMOSRL Browsing Collection / Books: Titles Beginning R-S

Silver Bough. Volume 4, The Local Festivals of Scotland / F. Marian McNeill. Glasgow: William MacLellan, 1968

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Collection number: NAMOSRL GR144 .M24 v.4 (Non-circulating)
About

"This is the fourth and final volume of Marian McNeill's Silver Bough series, completing a unique storehouse of Scottish customs already half forgotten and in danger of passing from memory. Vol. IV is devoted to the local festivals of Scotland, from Up-Helly-Aa in Lerwick to the Border Ridings"--Dust jacket

Dates: Publication: 1968
Found in: Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections / MS-150-1, New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library (NAMOSRL) / Series 12: NAMOSRL Browsing Collection / Books: Titles Beginning R-S