DATE
About September 21st
CORRESPONDING MODERN FEAST
Harvest Festival
CELTIC GODS
Mabon, Bran & Branwen
CUSTOMS
Harvest Festival, gathering ripe field fruits (often
roots and pumpkins for Samhain), harvesting corn
and grapes, binding sheaves, fishing, pressing and preparing wine
SYMBOLS
Grape/vine, sheaves, a fish, fillhorn, little pumpkin
DEDICATED FOOD
Red wine, wild and huntable animals, pumpkins, melones,
nutritive vegetable breads and vegetable cakes, thick vegetable soups
SMOKE WORK
Sage, balsam
TRESHOLD TIME
Dusk