fire-hallowing

Updated: May 21, 2025

And so sacred was the rite once considered, that we learn from Toland that in the Scottish Isles, once a principal seat of the Druidical religion, the people "never come to the ancient sacrificing and fire-hallowing cairns, but they walk three times around them, from east to west, according to the course of the sun."

Albert G. Mackey - The Symbolism of Freemasonry