The day of Lammas is an old celebration that happens on the first day of August. Rural communities throughout the British Isles used to celebrate with loaves of bread, and the day was also called Harvest Festival, Loaf Feast, Grain Harvest and Lughnasadh, the Gaelic name associated with the three-faced god Lugh. It's similar to the Heathen festival of Freyfaxi, in celebration of the corn and the fertility god Frey.
Known as the first of three harvest holidays, Lughnasadh appears in the summer and most fairs celebrating happened around burial mounds. Making bread and corn husk dolls have become a popular way to celebrate this season among neo pagans and Wiccans.
It's a time of feasting on baked food, loaves, plaited bread, pies with blueberries. Biscuits made with cereals. Drinking beer or mead to celebrate or have honey flavoured tea.
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