#Lughnasadh is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 132 people shared 179 posts with it — around 6 a day. Activity is up 294% versus the previous week, peaking on Aug 1 with 93 posts.

Posts with #Lughnasadh

helibloo 🩵🐈‍⬛🌿🐈‍⬛💐🐕 birthday month ✨️

@helibloo.bsky.social

7 days ago

My beautiful sunflowers 🌻 #lughnasadh

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@hookland.bsky.social

8 days ago

No work will be done in Hookland today. It's the Puck Fairs. Epic bouts of storytelling, drinking, love-making and other funs of the fair. #Lughnasadh

August 1st – Puck Fairs
Starting on the old Celtic festival of Lughnasadh and lasting for two days, the Puck Fair is a pre-mediaeval tradition that is still going strong in Hookland. Associated with St. Urian and the faery folk, legend has it that the fairs started as the one point in the year when Hookland and Faeryland were close enough that trade between the two realms was possible. This is often offered as an explanation as to why the fairs used to be held on hilltops sacred to the faery. Whatever their actual origins, the Puck Fairs have become two days when an annual horse and cattle fair is supplemented by traditional matchmaking such as the 24-hour trial marriage (where the couple put together may separate at the end of the fair without any consequence), dances, bouts of wrestling and stick-fighting, horse races, story-telling contests and colossal amounts of drinking. Brutally suppressed during the Cromwellian Commonwealth, condemned by Methodists, often a source of modern moral outrage and an aggravation to the police, the Puck Fairs have proven to be a tradition that is exceptionally hard to kill off. Some have noted there is an increase in the number of people who disappear around the time of the Puck Fairs.

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@hookland.bsky.social

7 days ago

The Bright Folk, the Bright Hills and their link to #Lughnasadh in Hookland folklore.

One of the peculiar names that Hooklanders give to the faery are ‘the bright folk’. As with most folklore, etymologists disagree with storytellers. Any child will quickly narrow it down to two opposing factions. First come those who have heard it is because the lords and ladies of the Summer Courts of Faery have bright countenances that shine as if beneath the skin. Second are those who have heard that when a door is opened in a faery mound or hollow hill, a great light spills out transforming all the surrounding space to silver.

This brings us to the Bright Hills of Hookland. Suggested by some archaeologists as having been used as beacon points since at least Saxon times and to have earlier incarnations as places important to the people of the late Neolithic period whose story is written in flint, bone and polished beads found upon them. There are five Bright Hills known to all who study the county’s folklore. They are known as entrances to halls where Otherworld feasts may be enjoyed by those lucky few who not only receive an invite. Whether this has any bearing on the fact that annual hilltop parliaments of the cunning folk are often held on the Bright Hills is hard to establish. However, their role as portals to fine faery banquets may explain why they are also known as the Breen Hills, a word etymologists tell us comes from the Proto-Germanic brēdana – to roast.

Given their association with faeries, it's no surprise all five Bright Hills at one time played host to annual Puck Fairs. These start on the old Celtic Festival of Lughnasadh, a time in the year that many Hooklanders will still tell you is when the county and Faeryland are close enough to each other that trade between them is possible. Come August 1st, the hills are still sites of trial-marriages, folk dancing, stick-fighting and vast bouts of drinking that provoke much moral indignation among Methodist and other interfering types of that ilk.

The Secret Land, C.L. Nolan (Richard & Horlick, 1912)

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a mountain witch

@mountainwitch.bsky.social

about 1 year ago

Pumpkin applesauce cake because it's cold and rainy and I feel like fall. Plus it's gluten-free so daughter can enjoy. Recipe in the alt description. #autumniscoming #Lughnasadh

My oven is broken and I was dying for a pumpkin spiced something. I have a big counter top turkey roaster so I figured.. ha! I also wanted to make it so my daughter could eat it so I created a gluten and dairy free cake using certified gluten free rolled oats:
Dry:
4 cups of freshly pulverized oats into flour (measure after you take it out of the blender)
2 cups unrefined organic cane sugar
1 tsp each of cinnamon and freshly ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp each of whole allspice smashed in a mortar and pestle, and salt
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
Wet:
2 cups of pumpkin puree (from the freezer from last year's jack o'lantern)
1 pint of home canned applesauce (trying to use up last year's)
1/2 cup of oil
2 eggs
1 tbsp vanilla

Mix all together really well then let sit for a few minutes to hydrate the oat flour.
I put this into an angel food pan because it fit well on the rack inside my turkey roaster but wow, did it take a long time to bake, at least an hour and a half or longer. I was testing it every 10 minutes for the last 40 minutes or so. Next time, I will bake it in a 9 x 13 instead. It makes a very soft, moist, crumbly cake. We have been devouring it this afternoon. Pic is cake and tea on the counter. The mug says "witches brew" on the side.

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Whitby Gothic

@whitbygothic.bsky.social

8 days ago

+++ Today the 1st of August 2026 is both Lughnasadh & Lammas. +++ It marks the start of the harvest season, sitting halfway between the summer solstice and the autumn equinox It is one of the four main seasonal fire festivals alongside Samhain, Imbolc, & Beltane. #OTD #Lughnasadh #Lammas #pagan

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RaggaMog (Morri-Arty)

@raggamog.bsky.social

7 days ago

As #Lughnasadh marks the first grain harvest, where the life of the crop is cut down so the community may live, the hare becomes a parallel spirit of the wild grain, embodying the life force of the summer meadows before the sweep of the scythe. #Folklore Art my own.

An original artwork of a hare standing in long grass, created using watercolour paints and ink on A4 paper.

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The Wild Hunt News

@thewildhunt.bsky.social

7 days ago

TWH wishes its readers in the northern hemisphere a blessed Lughnasadh and Lammas and a blessed Imbolc to our readers in the southern half of the world. wildhunt.org/2026/08/a-bl... #pagan #witchcraft #lammas #lughnasadh #imbolc #harvest

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A Blessed Lughnasadh - Living, Paganism, Religion, The Wild Hunt, Witchcraft

Witchcraft & Pagan News - TWH wishes its readers in the northern hemisphere a blessed Lughnasadh and Lammas and a blessed Imbolc to our readers in the southern half of the world. | Living, Paganism, R...

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P J Richards

@pj-richards.bsky.social

8 days ago

🌾🍎🌾Wishing everyone a bountiful and Blessed #Lughnasadh #Lammas!

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Nifty Buckles Folklore

@niftybuckles.bsky.social

3 days ago

#WyrdWednesday 🌾 John Barleycorn is the spirit of the grain in British folklore. Cut down at harvest, ground into flour, and brewed into ale, he returns with every growing season, reminding us that every harvest carries the promise of renewal. #JohnBarleycorn #Lammas #Lughnasadh #CornSpirit 🌾🍞

Art of John BarleyCorn by VictorianLowbrow on Etsy.

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Nifty Buckles Folklore

@niftybuckles.bsky.social

3 days ago

#WyrdWednesday 🌾🧙‍♀️ Across parts of the UK & Ireland, the last sheaf of grain was woven into a corn dolly, sometimes called the Carlin, representing the Cailleach or spirit of the harvest. Kept through winter, it was believed to bless next year's crops. #CornDolly #Harvestlore #Lammas #Lughnasadh 🌾

Credit to Lori at Walking on Fire site for her lovely Corn Dolly Cailleach

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Paul Houle

@up-8.bsky.social

6 days ago

Olivia and I were driving back from Trumansburg to celebrate summer bounty last week and I saw this flower universe in front of Indian Creek Farm #photo #photography #Lughnasadh #lugh #flower #trumanburg #bloomscrolling #zinnia #indiancreek #paganism