MAY DAY CHANT ONE
- Here we come apiping,
- In Springtime and in May;
- Green fruit aripening,
- And Winter fled away.
- The Queen she sits upon the strand,
- Fair as lily, white as wand;
- Seven billows on the sea,
- Horses riding fast and free,
- And bells beyond the sand.
Valiente, Doreen; "Witchcraft for Tomorrow"; Phoenix Publishing 1985
MAY DAY CHANT TWO
The High Priestess and High Priest lead a ring dance around the bonfire. Start out with "A Tree Song" from Rudyard Kipling's "Weland's Sword" story in "Puck of Pook's Hill".
- "Oh, do not tell the Priest of our Art,
- Or he would call it sin;
- But we shall be out in the woods all night,
- A conjuring summer in!
- And we bring you news by word of mouth
- For women, cattle and corn
- Now is the dun come up from the South
- With Oak, and Ash and Thorn!"
Farrar, Janet and Stewart; "Eight Sabbats For Witches"; Robert Hale 1983
STAG CALL also MAYCHANT THREE
The men gather around the fire, next to their partners, and they say in unison:
- "I am the stag of seven tines;
- I am a wide flood on the plain;
- I am a wind on the deep waters;
- I am a shining tear of the sun;
- I am a hawk on a cliff;
- I am fair among flowers;
- I am a god who sets the head afire with smoke."
Graves, Robert; "The White Goddess"; Farrar 1970
Transcribed to computer files by Seastrider
