Edinburgh’s Samhuinn Fire Festival

For Halloween in Scotland, instead of trick-or-treating, we went to the Samhuinn fire festival! The Samhuinn Fire Festival is celebrated here twice a year, once at the beginning of summer and again at the beginning of winter. This festival marked the beginning of winter. It was one giant show where there was a “winter” army and a “summer” army. Since this marked the beginning of winter, the winter army “won” the battle of the night.

Overall it was just super cool. There was a lot of fire spinning and throwing and I have some really cool videos of the night.

On a side note, sometimes we could not see the show very well so instead of watching the people from far away we all wrapped ourselves in a big Jedi cloak for fun.