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From: Salima Ikram <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: November 5, 2012 11/5/12
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Subject: Re: [ZOOARCH] Bonfire Night
And just in general, from my friend T. DuQuesne, who is somewhat of an authority on such festivals, a bibliography:
The paper by Le Roux is particularly valuable:
F Le Roux Etudes sur le festiaire celtique: Samhain, Ogam 13 (1961) 481-506
J de Vries Keltische Religion (Stuttgart 1961) 229f
R Lantier Keltische Mythologie, in: Götter und Mythen im alten Europa (Stuttgart 1973) (Wörterbuch der Mythologie, ed HW Haussig II) 151-153 [99-162]
K Danaher The year in Ireland (Cork 1972) 200-227
R Hutton The stations of the Sun (Oxford 1996) 360-370
MJ Green Dictionary of Celtic myth and legend (London 1992) 185f
P Mac Cana Celtic mythology (London 1983) 127f
J MacKillop Dictionary of Celtic mythology (Oxford 1998) 333f
B Maier Dictionary of Celtic religion and culture, tr (Woodbridge 1997) 242
J Rhys Celtic folklore, Welsh and Manx (Oxford 1901) 315-317
EO James Seasonal feasts and festivals (London 1961) 316-318
A Ross Pagan Celtic Britain (London 1967) 237f, 256
A Ross The pagan Celts (London 1986) 120f
C Roy Traditional festivals: a multicultural encyclopedia (Santa Barbara 2005) II 420-424
MP Nilsson Aarets folkelige fester (København 1914) 39-63 (winter festivals)
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On 5 Nov 2012, at 12:07, Angela Perri wrote:
On a related note... I had always heard the driving of livestock through the bonfire was done to encourage the killing of ticks, fleas and other parasites to ensure the health of the animals as they were boarded closely together in the overwinter. I thought I had some references on this somewhere. I will dig around.
Angela
Angela Perri
PhD Researcher
Dept of Archaeology
Durham University
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On 5 Nov 2012, at 08:41 AM, Jacqui Mulville <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
A seasonal query....
An idle conversation around a bon(e)fire watching fireworks drew my attention to the Wikapeida entry for bonfire (see below). A brief search of ZOOARCHIVES found that we have touched on this topic but does anyone have citations for Wikapedia 'facts'? Is there a zooarchaology of bonefires?
We have Scottish sub-floor animal cremations that could be autumnal....
In the ancient druid religions,[citation needed] bonfires were held between 31 October and 5 November[citation needed] to celebrate Samhain, a harvest festival where they used bonfires " bone fires"[citation needed] to burn the bones of the slaughtered livestock they had prepared and stored for the winter months. People and their livestock would often walk between two bonfires as a cleansing ritual,[citation needed] and the bones of slaughtered livestock were cast into its flames.[citation needed] Some modern day Druids and Pagans[who?] see bonfire night as a significant celebration to end the harvest festival.[citation needed]
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