The collection
Sabbats
The Wheel of the Year, with the history that's usually flattened out of it.
- Beltane: Fire Festival, Fact and RevivalThe medieval Irish fire festival stripped back to its sources: cattle rites, need-fire, and the early-modern record — before Frazer and Gardner added the rest.
- Imbolc: Brigid, Candlemas, and the SourcesWhat medieval Irish sources actually record about the early-February festival, the goddess Brigid question, Candlemas, and what modern paganism added.
- Lammas and Lughnasadh: Two Harvests, One DateHlāfmæsse and Lughnasadh share a date but not a history. A source-grounded separation of the Anglo-Saxon loaf-mass from the Gaelic harvest assembly.
- Mabon: The Newest Old FestivalThe autumn equinox sabbat named by Aidan Kelly in 1974 — not ancient Celts. A clear-eyed history of how Mabon got its name, and what the Wheel looked like before it did.
- Litha: Midsummer Fires and a Borrowed NameThe midsummer bonfire festival is genuinely ancient. The name 'Litha' was coined in 1974. A sourced account of what the summer solstice sabbat is built from.
- Ostara: The Spring Equinox and the Eostre ProblemOstara rests on a single passage in Bede, a 19th-century philological reconstruction, and a sabbat name coined in 1974. Here is exactly what the sources say.
- Yule: Midwinter Before and After the RevivalWhat the Old English and Norse sources actually say about midwinter, and how the neo-pagan Yule was assembled from those fragments, Christmas, and twentieth-century revival.
- Samhain: What the Sources Actually SayWhat medieval Irish texts actually document about Samhain—and what Rhys, Frazer, and 1950s Wicca layered over it.