Beltane is a 7 letter English word.
You can make 173 anagrams from letters in Beltane (abeelnt).
1375-1425; late Middle English (Scots) Scots Gaelic bealltainn, Old Irish bel(l)taine, perhaps equivalent to *bel- an obscure element, perhaps the name of a supernatural person + tene fire
The Professor writes very positively as to Beltane day being the second day of May, not the first day as is supposed.
The Highlanders have a proverb, “he is between two Beltane fires.”
The Beltane customs seem to have been the same as elsewhere.
The following account of Beltane is extracted from a chapter dealing with Highland superstitions.
The fuel was piled on a hill-top, and at the fire the Beltane cake was cooked.
Of all these varieties of human sacrifice, those offered for fertility, probably at Beltane or Midsummer, were the most important.
In the Parish of Logierait, Beltane is celebrated by the shepherds and cowherds in the following manner.
The Professor is also mistaken in stating that the Beltane fair of Peebles was to be kept for eight days.
The grandmothers of the children who now play in the village could remember the Beltane bonfires, and the wild dances around them.
There is some difference of opinion as to the particular day on which the Beltane festival was held in this country.