In this form, May Day may be best known for its tradition of dancing the Maypole and crowning of the Queen of the May. |
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We erected a Maypole for our first Beltane on this land and have celebrated with a Dance every year since. |
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Maypole dancing and line dancing were also on offer to the children. |
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The Maypole was traditionally given to the community by the local gentry. |
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However, such dances are performed every Mayday around the permanent Maypole at Offenham, in Worcestershire. |
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Often the Maypole dance will be accompanied by other dances as part of a presentation to the public. |
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There's not a great deal to see at the Maypole, though I expected some version of what the literary critics call the pathetic fallacy. |
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The pair began courting three years later when 83-year-old Wilf went to see a film at the Maypole Cinema, where Beryl worked as an usherette. |
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Other settlements on the island are Old Town, Porthloo, Pelistry, Trenoweth, Holy Vale, Maypole, Normandy, Longstone, Rocky Hill and Telegraph. |
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Get ye to a maypole dance for more traditional sorts of fertility blessings. |
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As the sun came up, pipers played and visitors watched fire juggling and danced around a maypole. |
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In many countries, a maypole with long ribbons attached to the top is part of the celebration. |
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Now we are asked to hold hands and dance around the maypole together, celebrating mediocrity. |
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These two are erecting a maypole and tent for the annual garden fest to delight the local children. |
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Whatever happened to good old May Queen's, Morris dancing and ribbon dancing around a maypole. |
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I'm a little too old and far too creaky to dance round the maypole but I did do a little jig by the oak tree. |
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It is everywhere taken as the first sure sign of spring, and in England it is used to decorate the traditional maypole. |
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Jock-bashing is just another grand old English tradition, a bit like morris dancing or cavorting round a maypole. |
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The lord watched his daughter dance the maypole with the other young people. |
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Children were gathered around the maypole, holding onto the brightly colored ribbons, and dancing around. |
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The playground, with a maypole and little roundabouts, and raised beds where children could grow vegetables and flowers, was vitally important. |
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Children enjoyed various displays including a Second World War vehicle and a shire horse display, while others danced around the maypole. |
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There was maypole dancing and morris dancing provided by the Jockey Mens Morris Team. |
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Other celebratory events on Tuesday included maypole dancing, poetry readings, a magic show and a display of morris dancing. |
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The town received Unicef assistance after the Second World War, inspiring Jitka to paint children dancing around a maypole. |
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The maypole was followed by some traditional Northumbrian clog dancing taught to the children by a teacher of ours from Newcastle. |
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The accordion player played for the children as they wound their colourful ribbons round the maypole. |
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The maypole dancing unfortunately coincided with a particularly heavy shower but the young performers bravely completed their routine despite the deluge. |
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I remember holding a maypole while my girlfriends danced around me. |
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How could he not dance in uniform round the maypole with the rest of them? |
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I'll just go and run a couple of times round a maypole and decide. |
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The event, organised by the parent-teacher association, includes stalls, sideshows and maypole dancing. |
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There is therefore speculation that the maypole was in some way a continuance of this tradition. |
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The symbolism of the maypole has been continuously debated by folklorists for centuries, although no definitive answer has been found. |
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After the institution of the International Workers' Day the maypole rite in southern part of the Marche became a socialist ritual. |
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That royal support contributed to the outlawing of maypole displays and dancing during the English Interregnum. |
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In Britain the maypole was found primarily in England and in areas of Scotland and Wales which were under English influence. |
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A maypole is a tall wooden pole erected as a part of various European folk festivals, around which a maypole dance often takes place. |
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In Canada, maypole dances are sometimes done as part of Victoria Day celebrations which occur in May. |
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On May Day, the villagers used to dance around a maypole on the village green. |
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However, they are certain that the prohibition turned maypole dancing into a symbol of resistance to the Long Parliament and to the republic that followed it. |
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Structures such as the maypole, derived from the Saxons' Irminsul, and the totem pole among indigenous peoples of the Americas also represent world axes. |
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While the maypole is traditionally set up with the help of long poles, today it may sometime also be done using tractors, forklifts or even cranes. |
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