Edinburgh's Holyrood Park hosted a spectacular Samhuinn Fire Festival this week.Edinburgh's Holyrood Park hosted a spectacular Samhuinn Fire Festival this week.
Edinburgh's Holyrood Park hosted a spectacular Samhuinn Fire Festival this week. | Getty Images

Samhain Fire Festival 2024: Here are 16 amazing pictures of the spectacular celebrations in Holyrood Park

Edinburgh’s Holyrood Park was lit up with flames and fun this week courtesy of a traditional Celtic festival.

Organised by the Beltane Fire Society, hundreds of spectators have enjoyed this year’s Samhuinn Fire Festival in the shadow of Arthur’s Seat in Scotland’s Capital.

The spectacular event celebrates the end of summer and the upcoming winter with fire-play, drumming, and immersive theatrical performances.

The precursor to modern Halloween, with which it shares a date, the festival marks a time when it was thought the boundary between the physical and spirit worlds weakened - allowing the dead to mix with the living.

It tells the story of a battle between the Summer and Winter Kings and Queens (spoiler alert: winter wins).

Here are 16 pictures from this year’s festival.

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