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Saint Martin's Day

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

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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

 Book
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