Gaelcerth of Halloween - Softcover

Roberts, John Hugh; Bertrand, Dale; Burford, Della

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0987830287 ISBN 13: 9780987830289

Publisher: Azatlan Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

“One of the ceremonies that has survived since the time of the Druids, and kept in Wales , on the 11th of November, states John Hugh Roberts , was the ‘Bonfire of Halloween’ and from 1834 – 1840 he participated in the ceremony. He said this ceremony was kept up even to the year he wrote these papers which was in 1888. All the children gathered materials for the Bonfire which was lit at sunset and each fire in every house was lite again with the fire from the Galcerth. But in 1888 only the old families did this’. John Hugh actually got to light the bonfire as he had gathered the greatest amount of materials. He even was given the trumpet, to sound, by the older man who was the Master of Ceremony. John Hugh says there was a great commotion and the Queen of the Fairies approached. The “Gaelcerth of Halloween” was written at the turn of the twentieth century by John Hugh Roberts.

About this title

About the Author

- “Last Recorder of the Druids” John Hugh Roberts was a Welshman who lived both in Toronto and Vancouver Canada from 1850 - 1917, with his wife & family of 2 daughters and a son. He worked first as tailor, and in buying land had more freedom to write. As well as writing the various stories and poems from his life (in which this story of the Gaelcerth is one) in his final years he wrote “The Stone Book of Knowledge”. He indicates the information came from old stone tablets in Wales. Scholars have indicted these mysterious papers may of originated from the Akashic records. He wrote these mysterious papers to to be read by future generations.

Edition details

• Publisher: Azatlan Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0987830287
• ISBN 13: 9780987830289
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 42
• Illustrator: Del Pasqua Leo