Beltane
Beltane ({not transcribed}) , noun
[Gael. bealltainn, bealltuinn.]
1.
The first day of May (Old Style).
The quarter-days anciently in Scotland were Hallowmas, Candlemas, Beltane, and Lammas.
2.
A festival of the heathen Celts on the first day of May, in the observance of which great bonfires were kindled. It still exists in a modified form in some parts of Scotland and Ireland.