Lammas

What is Lammas?

Lammas is celebrated by pagans and witches on August 1 as the first harvest of the year, when the grain comes in and the bread goes on the table. It is the seventh festival of the Wheel of the Year and the first of its three harvests, at the turn from high summer toward autumn.

Modern pagans and witches celebrate Lammas with baking at the center, often symbolizing the the first loaf from the new grain. The day is also called to Loaf Mass, Lughnasadh, Lúnasa in modern Irish, and August Eve. The name Lammas entered the Wheel in the twentieth century alongside the rest of the modern festival calendar.

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Common Questions

What is the difference between Lammas and Lughnasadh?

Lammas and Lughnasadh are two names for the same first-harvest festival at the start of August. Lammas is the English church's word for the loaf mass, and Lughnasadh is the Gaelic festival named for the god Lugh, and modern pagans use both.

Is Lammas Wiccan?

Lammas is not only Wiccan, though Wicca keeps it as one of the eight sabbats on the Wheel of the Year. The loaf mass belongs to the English church calendar, Lughnasadh belongs to the Gaelic year, and the modern pagan festival is kept by Wiccans, Druids, Heathens, and witches outside any tradition.

What is Lammas in witchcraft?

Lammas in witchcraft is the festival of the first harvest, when the year's work begins to pay. Witches mark it by baking the first loaf, gathering the first of the harvest, and giving some of it away. The loaf at the center of the day stands for everything the season has grown.

What to put on a Lammas altar?

A Lammas altar holds the first harvest in miniature. A small loaf or a sheaf of grain takes the center, with the first of the harvest around it, a gold or brown candle, sunflowers, and a wheat weaving if the household has made one.

What is traditionally eaten on Lammas day?

The traditional food of Lammas Day is bread, baked from the first grain of the harvest. Around the loaf come corn, berries, the first apples, honey, and ale or cider, the table of early August.

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What is traditionally eaten on Lammas day?

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Common Questions

What is the difference between Lammas and Lughnasadh?

Is Lammas Wiccan?

What is Lammas in witchcraft?

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What is traditionally eaten on Lammas day?

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