Midsummer already, the longest day of the year on 21st June when daylight lasts well into the late evening and the air is languorous with hazy heat and the sweet smells of honeysuckle and rose . The image most Britons have in their minds on this day is that of the festivities at Stonehenge when the dawn lights the stone and the Druids perform their ancient rituals.
A truly magical sight that we associate with the Druids but that predates them many centuries being centred in the Neolithic love of megastructures variously aligned with astral happenings, that include Newgrange in Ireland and Maeshowe in the Orkneys.
Midsummer eve is a night of magic one of the two spirit nights, ysbrysdnos of Welsh tradition that include Halloween and Midsummer eve, these are the nights when supernatural powers are afoot and we can make contact with our ancestors. Midsummer is celebrated in many cultures; in northern…
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