(RNS) — On Sunday (May 1), some localities put up a traditional Maypole, named a May Queen and made flower crowns. Many modern pagans also celebrated the height of spring. But one community’s vernal ...
In ancient times in England — before the church and Parliament banished the pagan tradition in 1644 — young unmarried men and women went off into the woods to cut down a tree to set in the ground for ...