Night of Nicnevin (Gyre-Carling), Daughter of Frenzy, Banshee

This Scots Pagan festival honours an aspect of the goddess Diana. She rides with her entourage in the night hours of November 9 - 10. Nicnevin, who rode through the night with her followers "at the hinder end of harvest, on old Hallowe'en", as an old Scots poet describes it, made herself visible to mortals on this night ...

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