Festivals of Scotland
Scotland, is not just about kilts and bag pipes, it is also about joyous holidays, and festivals. Today, I am going to inform you about the festivals of Scotland, and what each celebration involves. ... The Celtic festival Samhain, is one of the four, quarter festivals. ... Halloween customs in Scotland consist mostly of children going door to door "guising" or dressing up and offering entertainment of various sorts in return for gifts. ... Halloween parties consist of many games, one of them being, "Dooking fur aiples" which is similar to bobbing for apples, the only difference being the sprinkling of flour into the water in Scotland. Christmas Eve, in some parts of Scotland, is called Sowans Nicht from "sowans" - a dish made from oat husks and fine meal steeped in water. ... Christmas was not traditionally celebrated in Scotland after being banned for nearly 400 years until the 1950s.