Word has it, Summer’s Fayte might be (symbolically!) breathing their last at the hands of the Wild Hunt in a couple of weeks. Photopoint caught up with them at Blackford to capture this rather frightening rehearsal.

You can see lots more photos of Samhuinn 2016 rehearsals and preparation in this album, walkthroughs in this album and group portraits in this album on Facebook. All our content is publically viewable so you can see if even if you don’t have a Facebook account.

_{Photos by David Purvis x2, Mark Taylor x2, Neil Barton x2 and Pascal van der Meiden x2.}

The Samhuinn Fire Festival 2016 is at 9pm on Monday 31st October on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile. Find out all about it here.