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Anthropologist and pagan Lyn Baylis tells the BBC: "Fire rituals to bring light into the darkness were vital to Samhain, which was the second most important fire festival in the Pagan Celtic world ...

The Iron Age Celtic ritual has been celebrated for thousands of years. Taking place on Calton Hill, the festival marks the birth of the summer and is celebrated on the evening before 1 May.