Lughnasadh or August Eve is a Gaelic celebration traditionally associated with the first of August and commemorated the start of the harvest season and the ripening of first fruits. It is also favored as a time for handfastings, a trial marriage lasting a year and a day, before actual getting married before the New Year (Samhain). This Sabbat is traditionally celebrated with bonfires and dancing and the festival was spelled Lughnasa, Lughnasad, or Lughnasadh in Old Irish.
However, in England, it was common for tenants to present harvested wheat to their landlords on or before Lughnasadh and probably was the reason why some neo-pagans refer to Lughnasadh as Lammas, but this term means “Loaf-Mass Day” in which it was customary to bring a loaf made from the first wheat harvest to church as an offering. In Traditional British Witchcraft, this Sabbat is always referred to as August Eve or Lughnasadh because of the statement above.
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