Help me come up with Holidays

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Some here:

The Hag Feast

The peasants name this festival day the Hag-feast, for of the holy works of Hasem of the frozen Kalask realm, her Purgen upon hags of the ice-forests is most told in Witan. Lay-brother Wagen has spoken wroth and rancor of this complexion of a holy festival, for he is oft to preach against peasant fantasies of hags in the Rur realm forests and Unhallowed forgen-ruins. Yet each thrice-year, the Lay-brother is laden once more with festival-works and the dreams of peasants ever more embellished.

Pick and Stone Fair

Since the Year of Winter, that terrible, unending season of Trespassers and wizardry, when snow and hail buried the Red Iron Road and a third of Ura's commonfolk starved, the Pick and Stone Fair has grown in significance. What was once a small, traditional occasion - marked by coin passed to the few troubadors who wintered in Ura and a late night of ale and carefully husbanded provisions in the tavern and manses - has become an event to rival the summer fair at One Stone. Coin flows freely from the Guildmaster, merchants and players brave the thawing, muddied Known Roads to claim their share, and even some cityfolk from Port - and thieves too, no doubt - have taken to making the journey in recent years.

One Stone and the Summer Fair

One Stone marks the point at which travelers stop for the night after departing Two Springs in the early morning - stories are told of dire happenings on the Road between these locations and in the outskirts of nearby Whisperwood. Tales of horrific Trespassers from the Farthest and malign wizardry loom large in the minds of travelers; to be on the Road after dark is a frightening prospect.

In warmer seasons, folk from Two Springs set up stalls and shelters near One Stone to sell provisions and entertainment to travelers. At the height of Summer, the modest One Stone fair attracts traders and common folk from Port, Two Springs and nearby villages. Troubadors play the old songs; young lovers dance in the shadow of One Stone; tables are laid with white cloth and farm food; elder folk exchange news and tall stories. Passing travelers might be forgiven for imagining that little has changed since the days of the old Ammand.

Reason
Principia Infecta

 

[Veril]

Every God should have at least one holy day (holiday) dedicated to him - the religion considers these important. States where that religion is strong should also consider them important and they should be "official" holidays.
The particular day should be chosen for some significant action of the god.

If your world has suffered a major war or disaster, the day of it's starting or ending should be a holiday celebrated widely. The holiday might be a warding to pray that such things do not happen again (i.e. comet falling from the sky), or to celelebrate the end of the war and the coming of peace.

The midsummer and minwinter festivals are obvious ones, and folk lore provides much that can be plundered for them.

Any major regular magical event could be a celebration.
A volcano that rumbles every 37 days in one area.
The sacrifice of a maiden to a dragon every year upon the 3rd day of the 4th moon.

The Great Spring Fair.

The Day of the Dead.

The regular occurance of a comet in the sky (The dark stalkers eye),
The monthly cycle of the Moon
A regular Solar Eclipse (Sun death)

 

[HalfOrc HalfBiscuit]

You might want to have a look at this:

http://www.winterscapes.com/slavic.htm#festivals

 

[el-remmen]

Feel free to steal from any of these.