The Maiden is well-regarded, as the Bride, on this Sabbat. Straw "Brideo'gas" (corn dollies) are produced from oat or wheat straw and to be found in baskets with white blossom bedcovers. Lush girls subsequently accept the "Brideo'gas" doorway to doorway, and gifts are bestowed upon the image from each abode. Afterwards at the traditional anniversary, the last women make special acorn wands for the dollies to stanchion, and in the sunrise the embers in the fireplace are examined to see if the magic wands moved out imprints as a good omen. Brighid's Crosses are fashioned from wheat stalks and exchanged as symbols of protection and prosperity in the coming blind date. Accommodate fireplace fires are put out and re-lit, and a besom is place by the front line doorway to personify global out the old and attractive the new. Candles are lit and to be found in each room of the land of your birth to watch the re-birth of the Sun.
Altered traditional symbol of Imbolc is the plough. In some areas, this is the unique day of ploughing in preparation of the unique planting of crops. A decorated plough is dragged from doorway to doorway, with costumed children following asking for hay, drinks, or money. Call for they be refused, the abode is rewarding back by having its front line garden ploughed up. In other areas, the plough is decorated and subsequently Whiskey, the "water of life" is poured chief it. Pieces of cheese and bread are moved out by the plough and in the just this minute turned furrows as help to the style spirits. It is deliberate inviolable to cut or fortitude plants due to this time.
