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ab:beltane.txt 14jan90
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Beltane
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Preparation:
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Two white candles are on the altar with a wreath of spring flowers.
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Quarter candles are green.
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HPS leads the coven, riding poles if possible, about the Covenstead with
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a quick, trotting step, singing:
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All: "O do not tell the priests of our Art,
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For they would call it sin;
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But we will be in the woods all night,
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A-conjuring summer in.
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And we bring you good news by word of mouth,
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For woman, cattle and corn,
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For the sun is coming up from the south
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With oak and ash and thorn."
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A ring dance follows after which the High Priestess casts the Circle.
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High Priest draws down the Moon upon the High Priestess.
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All are purified in sacrifice before Her.
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She then purifies the High Priest at her own hands.
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All partake of Cakes and Wine followed by feasting and dancing and singing
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and the Great Rite, if at all possible, in token or truly.
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-Derived from Stewart Farrar's "What Witches Do", based on Alex Sanders' BOS
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-Some parts expanded based on "The Grimoire of Lady Sheba" where Farrar is
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unclear. (He rarely gives the actual BOS text, whereas she always does,
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but from a slightly different BOS.)
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