Festival of Stardust

On the 25th of Dendra people celebrate the Festival of Stardust, it is mainly celebrated in Torlund and by those who worship Desna, the festival is considered to be quite a romantic event and thus attracts more couples from other religions as well who partake for the event of it rather than the beliefs.

The celebrations start with large bonfires, singing, dancing and magic displays often including fire and colour, during this time people look back on the last year and think about all the good things they were able to do, all of the dreams they managed to pursue and achieve. People who have achieved particularly important or meaningful dreams during the past year are welcomed to share their success stories, thanking Desna for her help and welcoming everyone to celebrate with them for their happiness. After this people tend to cook food over the fire and share meals together, as they wait for the fire to burn down to embers, this is then when people begin to take turns to either publicly or privately declare their dreams for the coming year to Desna then approach the fire and toss some sort of flammable material into the fire mixed with something to make it more colourful if they can. The less well off tend to use flour, stained with beet juice then dried while the richer worshippers add other materials like Copper Sulphate or Chloride to change the color as well as magnesium or gem dust to make the flames more intense.