St IVES OLD CORNWALL SOCIETY 2023 MIDSUMMER EVE BONFIRE (TANSYS GOLOWAN)
Channel: Cornishpastyman
Date: 2023-06-23

The ancient custom of pagan firelighting on the longest day, believed to be thousands of years old and revived by the Old Cornwall movement in 1929. Many years ago the date was changed from the Summer Solstice to St John’s Eve to fit in better with the church calendar. This ceremony on Carnstabba Hill near Halsetown was preceded by song from Vaughan Bennett and Toni Carver and Cornish prayers. After St Ives Mayor Johnnie Wells had lit the fire, Lady of the Flowers Shirley Beck cast the bunch, bound by coloured ribbons, to the flames :

"In one bunch together bound
Flowers for burning here are found
Both good and ill.
Thousandfold let good seed spring
Wicked weeds, fast withering,
Let this fire kill !"

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St IVES IN THE SNOW https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrVUjbiYVZU5S17SF-q9iL0qB_z1Ds6ty
THE QUEEN AND St IVES https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrVUjbiYVZU4Mqrwu-iJyD7JpAe5m_e1o
REMEMBRANCE AND 'IN MEMORIAM' https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrVUjbiYVZU54HpI_5ClbjPme2ir9AoqO
THE BEACHES https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrVUjbiYVZU7Dyc3wnBXqwc_800xi7wQZ
AUTISM'S GOT TALENT ROADSHOW https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrVUjbiYVZU7O3LiKsstDhOccdF5RvTDA
THE St IVES LIFEBOAT https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrVUjbiYVZU5soVVfksXoIBkGaxbngaun
St IVES IN DECEMBER https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrVUjbiYVZU4hQ2OKYqQUDF2V9hffEEu5
SEPTEMBER FESTIVAL and OTHER ‘CULTURE’ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrVUjbiYVZU5x0YpagOM0wDDHfjZ0RMo7
HISTORY and TRADITIONS https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrVUjbiYVZU7_0Tz4xHm0c03P9LIoUFCB
THE CORONAVIRUS CHRONICLES https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrVUjbiYVZU6fgUw7MqcndnZwo70EUw6g
REMEMBERING JOHNNY BARBER https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrVUjbiYVZU4lcMVYKnWC0wcxucf5n5Uk
KIDZ R US/PHIL & FRIENDS https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrVUjbiYVZU5pe8i8C0FJlc7gZBvgICwq

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