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Cross-quarter days
Days on the Cross-quarter points marking the mid-points between the Equinoxes and the Solstices, holidays dating back to pre-Christian times. Still celebrated in many parts of the world esp. the UK and northern Europe, they are also important in Wicca and neo-Paganism as part of the eight-pointed Wheel of the Year
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