Crossword-Solution: BELTANE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Beltane | n. | The first day of May (Old Style). |
| Beltane | n. | A festival of the heathen Celts on the first day of May, in the observance of which great bonfires were kindled. It still exists in a modified form in some parts of Scotland and Ireland. |
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| BELTANE | anagram | TENABLE |
We have 7 clues for the answer “BELTANE”
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| Celtic May Day | 1 answer |
| May first | 1 answer |
| anglicised name for the Gaelic/Celtic May Day festival | 1 answer |
| beltein | 1 answer |
| first May | 1 answer |
| May Day | 2 answers |
| festival | 37 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with BELTANE (5)
The distance was not entirely lost; other Beltane fires could be seen, like beacons, on every hill, and the few lights in the castle shone out like red fiery eyes in its heavy dark pile of building.
The former took place in the beginning of May, and was called Beltane or "fire of God." On this occasion a large fire was kindled on some elevated spot, in honor of the sun, whose returning beneficence they thus welcomed after the gloom and desolation of winter.
Sir Walter Scott uses the word in the Boat Song in the Lady of the Lake: "Ours is no sapling, chance-sown by the fountain, Blooming at Beltane in winter to fade." The other great festival of the Druids was called "Samh'in," or "fire of peace," and was held on Hallow-eve (first of November), which still retains this designation in the Highlands of Scotland.
The Beltane Fires IN THE CENTRAL Highlands of Scotland bonfires, known as the Beltane fires, were formerly kindled with great ceremony on the first of May, and the traces of human sacrifices at them were particularly clear and unequivocal.
Like the other public worship of the Druids, the Beltane feast seems to have been performed on hills or eminences.
Quotes with BELTANE (1)
RIDE A WHITE SWAN""Ride it on out like a bird in the skyway, Ride it on out like you were a bird, Fly it all out like an eagle in a sunbeam, Ride it all out like you were a bird. Wear a tall hat like the druid in the old days Wear a tall hat and a Tattooed gown Ride a white swan like the people of the Beltane, Wear your hair long, babe, you can't go wrong. Catch a bright star and place it on your forehead, Say a few spells and baby, there you go, Take a black cat and sit it o…
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Appears in: Newsday.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2002).