Ireland’s Beltane flower festival
Starting April 24, Ireland’s Beltane flower festivals herald May 1! 💮
Sacred Hawthorn trees, fairy portals to the Aos Sí, bloom with magic. #BookChatWeekly
🌼Dressed as May Bushes with primrose and gorse, they honor Belenus’s solar fires and Áine’s fertile summer, guarding against evil.
🧚♀️Beware: cutting a fairy thorn invites their wrath.
🎨 by Mary Cicely Barker.
Val is a writer of enchanted tales, folklore and magic. Once chased by Vampire Pumpkins! 