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ab:cone2.txt 16jan90
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The Cone of Power
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This was the old way. The circle was marked out and people stationed to
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whip up the dancers. A fire or candle was within it in the direction
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where the object of the rite was supposed to be. Then all danced round
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until they felt they had raised enough power. If the rite was to banish
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they started deosil and finished tuathil, so many rounds of each. Then
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they formed a line with linked hands and rushed towards the fire
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shouting the thing they wanted. They kept it up 'til they were
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exhausted or until someone fell in a faint, when they were said to have
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taken the spell to its destination.
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-Published in Janet and Stewart Farrar's "The Witches' Way"; from GBG's
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BOS (Text B and C give identical versions)
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-Doreen Valiente gives just about the same text in "The Rebirth of
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Witchcraft", describing it as notes she made from Gerald Gardner's
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description of the ritual used to deter Hitler from invading Great
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Britain
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