European Rituals and Traditions — 24 Stories

• Walpurgis Night: The Fire and Folklore of Spring
• Tamborrada: San Sebastián’s Drum Festival
• Semana Santa Processions: Seville’s Holy Week Devotion
• Festa dei Ceri: Gubbio’s St. Ubaldo Candle Race
• La Tomatina: Spain’s Tomato Festival of Buñol
• Beltane: Gaelic May Day Fire Festival
• Krampuslauf: Alpine Ritual of Central Europe
• Up Helly Aa: Scotland’s Viking Fire Festival
• The Mamuthones of Sardinia: Masks of Winter and Renewal
• Calan Mai: The Welsh Festival of Summer’s Rising
• Maslenitsa: The Slavic Sun Festival of Russia
• Dziady: The Ancestral Rite of Belarus, Poland, and Lithuania
• Well Dressing in England’s Peak District
• Perchtenlauf: The Winter Goddess’s Procession of Fear and Blessing (Austria & Bavaria)
• La Pourcailhade: The Occitan Ritual Traditions of Rural France
• Kupala Night: The Slavic Celebration of Fire, Water, and Fertility
• Lajkonik: Kraków’s Horseman Procession
• Mamuthones and Issohadores: Sardinian Carnival Ritual
• Kupala Night: The Slavic Midsummer Ritual
• Caloian Rain Ritual of Romania
• Saint Jonas’s Festival of Lithuania
• St. John’s Eve: The Midsummer Bonfire Traditions of Europe
• Yule: Norse Winter Solstice Festival of Light and Ancestors
• Beltane: Celtic Fire Festival of Renewal and Fertility