The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1912-02-29
EgTH THE GREENSBORO EORMAL GIRLS
0n May-Gay The hay Maya HAY
GosIIRq-May Charms.

beare!'
Sir Philip Sidney: with merry
q Maying CO.
Davies: "Enwreathing garlands
Il; balny May
Come says Herrick, and coming
mark
low each field turns a street, and
each street park
! -Iade green and trimmed with trees:
see how
Devotion gives each house a bough
Or branch; each porch, each door,
ere this,
An ark, tabernacle is
Wade up Of white thorn neatly in
terwove."
From an old carol:
I'VE have been rambling. all this
night
And almost all this day.
and now returning back again,
We have brought you a bunch Of
May.
A branch of May we have brought
you,
And at your door it stands,
1t is but sprout, but it's well bud
ded out,
By the worl, Of our coed Lords
hands
(2) n France "a May" was q
little girl. Because May is tie
month Of flowers and the month con-
isecrated to the Virgin Ifary- in
Brazil today it is called the month
Of Mary the young girls Of each
Iquartier united to celebrate lis re-
turn. They chose 4 pretty child,
dressed her beautifully ii white,
crowned her with flowers and placed
her on throne Of foliage. with 2
saep;re il her hand. Sic Was 2 1ey,
virgin Of lovely days, flowers, and
green branches, q goddess who
neither distinguished nor recognized
the procane crowd.
Little English girls used to carry
. from Rouse to house q doll dressed
Ii in white ard adorned with carlands
They sang May carols a2l called tht
doll their MAY" Among olce3
I persons all the festival WIS some
; times referred to as the May.
+ A royal household account show
] this entry: "To the Maydens c.
:, L9mheth for a May, 10, s."
g The Disbursements Of the Prio
ry Of st. Mary in Huntington
"Cyven to the wyves of Herford fo
the makying Of there May" etc.
90 In northern England all sort
Of merry pranks were played on Ma,
1sr, Just as we make April Fools
The person fooled was a May gos
ling"
Merry time it is in May.
:, The fcule singeth her lay.
! In time Of May, the nightingale
Tn wo2c makith miry gale tme!ody
So doth the fouies CRETE ard sm2!e,
n Some On hulle, some on dale.
s % SCOTS Discovery Of Witch
4 c.act'' SAYS: ITO be dei;veret: Z
e witches. they hang in their en-, 4
4 hawthorn, otherwise white ti!arl
j gathered en- May-day. The Ge.
mans have saying that on May ev
r the witches meet upon a noun;a'
n in the Harz Forest, where they
Q together with the devils, doe dane
u and feast: and the common pcup.
y doe. tie night before the aid d@l
fetch a certain thorn and stick 1t !;
J their house-dore. believing til
witches cen then doe them nc harm.
q Gays Shepherds Week eai
tains curious diyinatian, begli
y ning: Last May-day fair, ] searcl
= ed to find snail that might my s.
. cr4t lovers name reveal" " III
~ Morning Post" Q774, ennounce
> yesterday being the first Of Ma.
$ according to annual custom, . nun
= her Of persons went ii.to Tire tex
- and bathed their faces Vi h the cc
l on the grass, under the iiea that
> would make them beautiful.
u Northumberland divination VI
= practIsed BY fishing with !alie I
&C a wedding ring that had been dro
= ed on May-day into ssliabub ma:
. of milk warm from he cow, ca
and vine.
iii r. the Scotch Highlands the 90
= of each l.am.c5 met ever fiay-d;
e on a moor, boiled over firr custa
- OF eggs and milk, ant, while eati
~ the cust tard, baked in the embers
!" oatmeal cs!.e. Breaking the ca
~ - into 2 many nieces as there We
= boys, lhey blaclSened one piece vi
'@eI @ charcoal. put al the pieces into
III bo:uot. and each boy, blindfolde
drew. The one drawing the b!a
7iy bit vas the victim OF Beai, the Gs
az lie sun-god. Ee had to leap thr
We times through the fire, thus insurt
'.li food for man and beast through
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