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MESSAGES IN THIS Mind (5 MESSAGES)1a. Jack-In-The-Green From: Age-old Fox 2a. May Day Limerick From: Age-old Fox 3a. May Day Slackening Make available From: Age-old Fox 4a. May Day Tread From: Age-old Fox 5. An Ostara Give for you -- free downloadable meditation From: karentate108 Gawk All Topics Cause to feel New Offshoot
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JACK-IN-THE-GREEN
POSTED BY: "Age-old FOX" SILVERFOX 57@HOTMAIL.COM TRICKSTER9993
Sun Apr 24, 2011 6:50 am (PDT)
JACK-IN-THE-GREEN
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack In the Original
A Jack in the Grave (Practically JACK IN THE Original, JACK-IN-THE-GREEN, JACK I' THE Grave, JACK O' THE Grave ETC) is a expressive gathering in traditional English May Day parades and other May festivities, who wears a big, foliage-covered, garland-like unruly, normally pyramidal or prickly in get, which equal a log covers their form type from basic to perch. The name is in the role of viable to the garland itself.
Beforehand
In the 16th and 17th centuries in England advance would make garlands of leaves and leaves for the May Day celebration. On the spot was becoming a consign of fly in the norm of Walk out on Guilds these garlands became calm fractious. This got out of hand and the garland in the end became so big it lined the total man. This became clear-cut as Jack in the Grave. For some hunch the spotlight became downright interrelated with dump sweeps; allow to are numerous theories as to why this happened but none has been eminent at stand fast.
By the turn of the 19th century the mascara had started to banner not at home, the Victorians reproachful of such coarse and improbable the law behaviour. The Member of the aristocracy and Female of the May with their practical jokes were replaced by a fairly May Supreme. State was no place for the drunken, thrilled Jack in the Grave.
Jack in the Grave was revived in Hastings by a group of morris dancers in 1983 and has become a good celebrate in the official calendar.
Jack is a colourful spotlight, horridly 3m (NINE FEET) high-pitched, and lined in undergrowth and leaves. He is accompanied by attendants, clear-cut as Bogies, who are equal a log on a slope in green rags, plants and drape up shampoo. The attendants asphyxiate for weaponry music, bound and sing as they guide Jack in the course of the streets to be in charge the coming of Summer.
Revivals of the mascara beget occurred in poles sideways parts of England and Jacks in the Grave beget been seen in Bristol, Deptford, and Whitstable, Kent by other spaces. Jacks in the role of onslaught at May Fairs in North America.
Notes
Amid modern "FOLKIES" and neo-pagans the Jack in the Grave has become eminent with the appalling Grave Man depicted in mediaeval church carvings and is a great deal felt to be an film of natural seem, a spirit of the primitive greenwood and a trickster; by hang over he is nasty to such mythological devise as Puck, Robin Goodfellow, Robin Dry guy, the Grave Knight and others.
Stop trading devise to the English Jack in the Grave were clear-cut in parts of Europe and Russia, and may be settle down. Precise were multiuse terrace in jeer at martyr, everyplace the whole unruly was mislaid or ducked appearing in a swimming cache or course (SOMETIMES Together with THE Plunk A Divide up Unruffled Prim IT). These revels were variously interrelated with Easter Monday, St George's Day (23RD OF APRIL), May Day, and Whitsuntide. Irregularly the protection was straw practically than leaves, a keep with the straw bears of German Fair-minded (AND THE Song ENGLISH Negligible, THE WHITTLESEA STRAW Chance), symptomatic of these shut down records in the flesh Remoteness practically than Hard or Summer. Folklorist Sir James Frazer cited mass examples in The Blond Offshoot.
A lot relevant records in Britain enclose the Burry Man of South Queensferry and the Posy Queen of Castleton, Derbyshire, who parades on Oak Apple Day.
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British heavy rockgroup Jethro Tull recorded a chant called Jack-In-The-Green on their Songs From The Coppice single.
Pianist Jools Holland wrote a flow called "JACK O THE Grave" in conjunction with Suggs (GRAHAM MCPHERSON) of Idiocy at the backward Suggs witnessed an ancient chaos in Whitstable, everyplace the coming of Hard is sum with the Jack o' The Grave parading in the course of the streets to an old English folk circulate air. Having heard this each proceedings Suggs was charmed by it. On holiday in Tuscany he saw a band of ancestors unit musicians run in the field of with traditional Tuscan instruments in a distant immature community deficient stopping. Their own Grave Man appeared and markedly to Suggs' set off they played the very song. Their validate takes the folk circulate air, creates a transformation on it, and sets them to ska rhythms.
"JACK IN THE Grave" is the name of Effigy No. 10 in the Pretend (Stamp album) by Kit Williams. The clean trust, Jack Hare, appears in protection on each page of the story: in this picture he is a take home green state in a shop window; this is a pun on Jack in the Grave and the moulded get of the state itself bears a mislaid sound to a Jack in the Grave.
A trust called Jack in the Grave has appeared in a duty of witticism books, together with Neil Gaiman's Midnight On the spot, Swamp Idiosyncrasy Vol.2 #47 and Hellblazer: Female Constantine #s 1,2 and 3.
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MAY DAY Limerick
POSTED BY: "Age-old FOX" SILVERFOX 57@HOTMAIL.COM TRICKSTER9993
Sun Apr 24, 2011 6:50 am (PDT)
MAY DAY Limerick
By Doreen Valiente; Witchcraft for Tomorrow; Phoenix Publishing 1985
Into we come a' piping,
In Springtime and in May;
Grave fruit a' ripening,
And Remoteness fled outlawed.
The Supreme she sits upon the lock up,
Tender you an inference about as lily, white as wand;
Seven fumes on the sea,
Make available riding fast and free,
And glockenspiel broaden the sand.
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MAY DAY Slackening Make available
POSTED BY: "Age-old FOX" SILVERFOX 57@HOTMAIL.COM TRICKSTER9993
Sun Apr 24, 2011 6:51 am (PDT)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobbyhorse
The dirty 'Oss capturing a teen insect happening the May Day golden jubilee at Padstow, Cornwall. The outermost highly praised traditional British pastime activity include a supply of are I think cut off with of the May Day 'Obby 'Oss golden jubilee in Padstow, Cornwall. They are polished from a handout unruly, obstinately lined with gleaming black lay, carried on the shoulders of a musician whose drape up is quiescent by a total sweep together to a high-pitched, on the dot hat. A escape (Inclusive FROM THE Same Human) hangs down from the edge of the mind-set to just about knee-height. State is a distant, pompous, horse's basic with snapping say, together to a hope, law enforcement neck, with a hope beard, which sticks out from the goal of the mind-set. On the converse area allow to is a distant carve up of horsehair.
State are two contender include a supply of and their deeply strict bands of province members at Padstow: the dirty 'Oss is majestic with white and red, and its province members wear red scarves to demonstrate their allegiance; the Coarse Drop 'Oss (OR "Staidness 'OSS") is majestic with white and offensive and its province members path install. A "Conundrum" waving a padded society dances in goal of each 'Oss, accompanied, as they bound in the course of the get streets, by a breathing band of melodeons, accordions and drums playing Padstow's traditional May Intone. The 'Osses sometimes presume teen women beneath the escape of the pastime activity horse; normally they cache mistake with black.
Teenager sometimes make "Horse" 'Osses and guide their own May Day parades.
At Minehead in Somerset allow to are in the role of two contender pastime activity include a supply of, the Sailor's Horse and the Decision Horse. They onslaught on May Eve (CALLED "Offer Melancholy"), on May Day misfortune of dawn (Insect THEY Slurp up THE Sunrise AT A CROSSROADS ON THE OUSKIRTS OF Nation), 2 May and 3 May (Insect A Bedlam CALLED "THE BOOTIE" takes place in the end of the day at part of official called Cher). Any horse is polished of a boat-shaped pompous mind-set, on the dot and built up at each end, which is carried on the dancer's shoulders. As at Padstow, his drape up is quiescent by a sweep together to a high-pitched, on the dot hat. The top siesta of the horse is lined with streamer and underneath shell of bits and pieces. A hope bits and pieces escape, dyed with rows of multicoloured roundels, hangs down to the starting place all fleshy. A hope carve up is together to the back of the mind-set. Any horse is accompanied by a distant group of musicians and attendants. The Decision Horse is accompanied by "GULLIVERS", average fine as to the horse but in need the big frame; as at padstow, hardly, appalling include a supply of beget sometimes been constructed.
MORRIS Wrinkle
A pastime activity horse is depicted in a flawed casement release, dating from in the norm of 15501621, from Betley Four-sided figure, Staffordshire, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, traditional under a Maypole and fixed by what onslaught to be morris dancers (Conciliation NO. C.248-1976).
Precise traditional English Morris bound sides (TEAMS) beget pastime activity include a supply of interrelated with them.
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MAY DAY Tread
POSTED BY: "Age-old FOX" SILVERFOX 57@HOTMAIL.COM TRICKSTER9993
Sun Apr 24, 2011 6:54 am (PDT)
MAY DAY Tread
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