*Ø* Blogmanac August 10-12 | Puck Fair, Ireland

Fertility festival dedicated to Puck as a buck goat. The fair is one of Ireland's oldest and longest celebrated. It might be that it is derived from pre-Christian Lughnasadh (Lammas) celebrations of a fruitful harvest and that the male goat or ‘Puck’ was a pagan symbol of fertility, like the pagan god Pan.

That it was once a Lammas fair is indicated by a patent from 1613 that gives the proprietor the right ‘to hold a faire in Killorglin on Lammas Day and the day after’.

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