Agreed there CT - the only virgins I've come across recently are trains, and they're a bit difficult to sacrifice (having said that, the one I was on on Saturday sacrificed itself at Nuneaton - can you blame it?)
Don't you have Bacchanales on Midsummer?
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The only mid summer ritual we have in the wilds of Kinoulton is the bike ride which takes in 9 pubs.
We did it on Saturday night.
There's definitely something mystic about it as bikes frequently develop a spirit of their own and take themselves and their riders into hedges and ditches.
We did it on Saturday night.
There's definitely something mystic about it as bikes frequently develop a spirit of their own and take themselves and their riders into hedges and ditches.
Kicks and scrums and ruck and roll.....Is all my brain and body need!
Definition of bacchanal attached
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=bacchanal
Sounds good to me, although I'm not sure about the bouts of promiscuity :shock:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=bacchanal
Sounds good to me, although I'm not sure about the bouts of promiscuity :shock:
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just make sure they ARE vine leaves and not a passing nettle or two....
Midsummer's Day is usually 23rd or 24th June, even though the Summer Solstice and Longest Day are the 20th/21st. So you can plan your Bacchanale for this weekend quite freely.
Just bear the following in mind: (taken from MysteriousBritain.com)
In antiquity midsummer fires were lit in high places all over the countryside, and in some areas of Scotland Midsummer fires were still being lit well into the 18th century. This was especially true in rural areas, where the weight of reformation thinking had not been thoroughly assimilated. It was a time when the domestic beasts of the land were blessed with fire, generally by walking them around the fire in a sun-wise direction.
It was also customary for people to jump high through the fires,
folklore suggesting that the height reached by the most athletic jumper, would be the height of that years harvest.
After Christianity became adopted in Britain, the festival became known as St John's day and was still celebrated as an important day in the church calendar; the birthday of St John the Baptist. Traditionally St John's Eve (like the eve of many festivals) was seen as a time when the veil between this world and the next was thin,
and when powerful forces were abroad. Vigils were often held during the night and it was said that if you spent a night at a sacred site during Midsummer Eve, you would gain the powers of a bard, on the down side you could also end up utterly mad, dead, or be spirited away by the fairies.
don't say you weren't warned!
Midsummer's Day is usually 23rd or 24th June, even though the Summer Solstice and Longest Day are the 20th/21st. So you can plan your Bacchanale for this weekend quite freely.
Just bear the following in mind: (taken from MysteriousBritain.com)
In antiquity midsummer fires were lit in high places all over the countryside, and in some areas of Scotland Midsummer fires were still being lit well into the 18th century. This was especially true in rural areas, where the weight of reformation thinking had not been thoroughly assimilated. It was a time when the domestic beasts of the land were blessed with fire, generally by walking them around the fire in a sun-wise direction.
It was also customary for people to jump high through the fires,
folklore suggesting that the height reached by the most athletic jumper, would be the height of that years harvest.
After Christianity became adopted in Britain, the festival became known as St John's day and was still celebrated as an important day in the church calendar; the birthday of St John the Baptist. Traditionally St John's Eve (like the eve of many festivals) was seen as a time when the veil between this world and the next was thin,
and when powerful forces were abroad. Vigils were often held during the night and it was said that if you spent a night at a sacred site during Midsummer Eve, you would gain the powers of a bard, on the down side you could also end up utterly mad, dead, or be spirited away by the fairies.
don't say you weren't warned!
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There are those that would say I was whisked away by the fairies years ago.
Wow Rizzo, you really are an expert on this sort of thing.
You're right about the nettles - Kinny, you need to avoid the waist high ones! Oh, and that rubbish about dock leaves is just that - rubbish.
Wow Rizzo, you really are an expert on this sort of thing.
You're right about the nettles - Kinny, you need to avoid the waist high ones! Oh, and that rubbish about dock leaves is just that - rubbish.
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