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1. May Day Customs - The May-Bush

   

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   On May day morning, children get a small haw-thorn bush or at least a branch of one on which there is haw-thorn in bloom. On this bush they tie all kinds of coloured ribbons, papers, tinsel or other decorations left after the Xmas decorations till it is a gorgeous sight.

   Then, they take it and carry it in procession around their village singing rhymes such as:-

   "Here we go gathering nuts of May, Nuts of May,
   On a cold and frosty morning;

   
   The old people are so pleased at the sign of Summer which the "May bush" surely is, that they shower pennies on the children, who buy all sorts of

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