toothill man
Mongoose
The veneration of fire was important to the celts.Bonfires were lit both at the festival of Beltane on may 1 and the festival of samhain on 1 November.The celts may have thought of fire as the earthly element that corresponds to the sun in the sky.Wheel-rolling also played a part in the celtic fire rituals,the wheels being set ablaze and rolled downhill.Another reported celtic fire ritual suggests that the celts went in for human sacrifice.Images in the human shape and made of wicker were filled with sacrifical animals and people and set alight