I LOVE Halloween ... I Just LOVE It

[joggerjayne]

We should have more pagan nights.

[albaqwerty]

no offence meant, so I hope none was taken :-)

[albaqwerty]

Oz to beat the Kiwis or vice versa?

[magsmay]

Non Pagans do celebrate pagan festivals

Imbolc: Feb 2 little less celebrated but a pagan rite is to d oa 'Spring clean'
Eoster : Around Easter Time -celebrates the renewal of life (hence Easter eggs)
Beltane: mayday
Summer solstice (Litha) midsummers night
Lammas -harvest festival
Autumn Equinox no christian celebration for this I don't think
Samhain - pronounced 'sowween' All Hallows -Halloween
Yule -Christmas

Strange the son of God was born and died around major Pagan festival dates

[joggerjayne]

I'm loving it, mags!

alba ... The Diamonds have been really strong in this tournament, so I think they will win. I'd like the Silver Ferns to do it, though, because it would balance out the power at the top ... ie the two world places above England.

[Hopkirk]

I HATE Halloween ... I Just HATE It

[magsmay]

I hate Halloween too Hopkirk. American disneyfied rubbish. Samhaim, however is totally different -you should get some Pagan friends and see how we celebrate -not a pumpkin in sight

[McMouse]

I'll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.

[Baldric]

It wasn't that bad, but I forgot to unpadlock the gates last night, so I got a soggy Newspaper this morning, he left it jammed in the bars of the gate.

[lady-janine]

we have quite a few low key pagan festivals in cornwall and, how shall i put this, different people who celebrate different dates. i don't know all of them but i expect DT does. you'll have to ask him.

[Booldawg]

being a sussex girl JJ I woudlve thought you be totting off to your local wassailing pretty soon.

[parkie]

I'm with you Hoppy. Cannot stand Halloween and all that goes with it.
I'd sooner celebrate today, All Saints Day, in some way.

[Hopkirk]

That sounds a good idea Parky, I'll put the kettle on.

[parkie]

Coffee, white, one sweetener please Hoppy. No biscuits. I'm on a diet.

[murraymints]

Not one trick or treater..guisers we call them in Scotland.......just had to leap naked around the garden on my own for a bit.....lol

[tonyav]

Doh, wheres my camera.

[DTCwordfan]

Local pagan events in Devon and Cornwall....

January

1st Andrew's Dole, Bideford, Devon

February

1st Monday after 4th, Hurling the silver ball, St Ives, Cornwall
Shrove Tuesday, Hurling, St Columb Major, Cornwall

April

30th 6:30pm, Maypole dance, Carn Bosavern, St Just, Cornwall

May

1st Obby Oss, Padstow, Cornwall - primaeval stuff!
Pagans meet at 12 noon around the maypole

1st Maypole dancing, Kingsteignton, Devon

8th Hal an Tow and Furry dance , Helston, Cornwall
Spring Bank Holiday, Hunting the Earl of Rone, Coombe Martin, Devon

Late Spring Bank Holiday, Ram Roast, Kingsteignton, Devon
June

23rd - St John's Eve, Old Cornwall Society Mid-summer bonfires, Chapel Carn Brea and other hilltops

1st Saturday after 23rd, Mazey Day, Penzance, Cornwall.
July

2nd Saturday, Taddiport Tub Race, Taddiport, Devon

19th Lafrowda Day, St Just, Cornwall
August

PF Lammas picnics in Devon and Cornwall Cornish Earth Mysteries Group Lammas Picnic, Trencrom, nr St Ives, Cornwall

September

1st Saturday, Gorsedh of Bards of Cornwall, different location each year

2nd Tuesday, Widdecombe Fair, Devon

end of month, Crying the Neck, St Keverne, St Just and Zennor, Cornwall

November

5th Tar-barrel rolling, Ottery St Mary, Devon

5th Turning the Devil's Stone, Shebbear, Devon

Friday nearest 5th, Tar-barrel rolling, Hatherleigh, Devon

[parkie]

What date for the Wicker Man DT?

[parkie]

And no........I'm not volunteering.