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Là buidhe Bealltainn sona dhuibh 🌼 🔥
asls.org.uk Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · May 1
“Bealltain (Beltane) is the first day of May. On May Day all the fires of the district were extinguished & ‘tein eigin’, need-fire, produced on the knoll.”

“Am Beannachadh Bealltain”, in CARMINA GADELICA (Alexander Carmichael, 1900)
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AM BEANNACHADH BEALLTAIN Bealltain, Beltane, is the first day of May. On May Day all the fires of the district were extinguished and 'tein eigin,' need-fire, produced on the knoll. This fire was divided in two, and people and cattle rushed through for purification and safe- guarding against 'ealtraigh agus dosgaidh/ mischance and murrain, during the year. The people obtained fires for their homes from this need-fire. The practice of pro- ducing the need-fire came down in the Highlands and Islands to the first quarter of this century. The writer found traces of it in such distant places as Arran, Uist, and Sutherland. In 1895 a woman in Arran said that in BEANNAICH, a Thrianailt fhioir nach gann, Mi fein, mo cheile agus mo chlann, Mo chlann mhaoth ’s am mathair chaomh ’n an ceann, Air chlar chubhr nan raon, air airidh chaon nam beann, Air chlar chubhr nan raon, air airidh chaon nam beann. Gach ni na m’ fhardaich, no to ’na m’ shealbh, Gach buar is barr, gach tan is tealbh, Bho Oidhche Shamhna chon Oidhche Bheallt, Piseach maith, agus beannachd mallt, Bho mhuir, gu muir, agus bun gach allt, Bho thonn gu tonn, agus bonn gach steallt. Tri Pears a gabhail sealbh anns gach ni ’na m’ stor, An Trianailt dhearbha da m’ dhion le coir; O m’ anam riaraich am briathra Phoil, Is dion mo chiallain fo sgiath do ghloir, Dion mo chiallain fo sgiath do ghloir. THE BELTANE BLESSING the time of her father the people made the need-fire on the knoll, and then rushed home and brought out their 'creatairean,' creatures, and put them round the fire to safeguard them, 'bho ’n bhana bhuitsich mhoir Nic-creafain,' from the arch-witch Crawford. The ordeal of passing through the fires gave rise to a proverb which I heard used by an old man in Lewis in 1873:—'A Mhoire! mhicean, bu dora dhomhsa sin a dheanamh dhuit na dhol eadar dha theine mhoir Bheaill,' Ah Mary! sonnie, it were worse for me to do that for thee, than to pass between the two great fires of Beall. BLESS, O Threefold true and bountiful, Myself, my spouse, and my children, My tender children and their beloved mother at their head. On the fragrant plain, on the gay mountain sheiling, On the fragrant plain, on the gay mountain sheiling. Everything within my dwelling or in my possession, All kine and crops, all flocks and corn, From Hallow Eve to Beltane Eve, With goodly progress and gentle blessing, From sea to sea, and every river mouth, From wave to wave, and base of waterfall. Be the Three Persons taking possession of all to me belonging, Be the sure Trinity protecting me in truth; Oh! satisfy my soul in the words of Paul, And shield my loved ones beneath the wing of Thy glory, Shield my loved ones beneath the wing of Thy glory.
May 1, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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