Beltaine (May Eve) is one of the four turnings of the Celtic year (along with Lughnasa, Samhain, & Imbolc) when the wall between us and the Spirit World is particularly thin...

For more information about the Fairies/the Sidhe (Shee)/the Good People see Irish Earth Folk by Diarmuid MacManus, The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries by W.Y. Evans-Wentz, and Celtic Heritage: Ancient Tradition in Ireland and Wales by Alwyn & Brinley Rees.

(Music: Courtesy of Adrian von Ziegler, "Prophecy." )