Beltane
Also called | Lá Bealtaine (Irish) Là Bealltainn (Scottish Gaelic) Laa Boaltinn/Boaldyn (Manx) Beltain; Beltaine; Beltine; Beltany
Observed by | Gaels (modern Irish people, Scottish people and Manx people), Wiccans, and Celtic neopagans
Type | Cultural Pagan (Celtic polytheism, Celtic Neopaganism, Wicca)
Significance | Beginning of summer
Celebrations | lighting bonfires, decorating homes with May flowers, making May bushes, visiting holy wells, feasting
Date | 1 May (or 1 November in the S. Hemisphere)
Frequency | annual
Related to | May Day, Calan Mai, Walpurgis Night