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In Olden Times,
Holidays were originally just that…
Holy Days.
The whole community would lay aside their workday duties and together engage in deeply or intrinsically symbolic activities that related to the situation that they all found themselves in.
For example…
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Cheese Rolling…
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May Polling…
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…and Beating-the-Bounds.
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…Well, I had a cheese roll for lunch Stuart -does that count? lol My feast will be Fri. (Full Moon)
Possibly not 😉 Full Moon is always a good juncture for a feast…
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Of those three the only one I’m familiar with is May Poling but I’ve never participated in it. 🙂 — Suzanne
The traditions soon fall by the wayside if not participated in… We witnessed a May Pole dance a couple of years back in Glastonbury, a place that is slowly re-introducing some of these Old-Time-Rites… 😉
It is too bad if old Rites should be totally forgotten. I’d guess visitors enjoy seeing them when going there. 🙂 — Suzanne
And many more 😉
Undoubtedly… 😉
This seems to have been before the consume terror! Beautiful reminder, thanks:)
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