Feast of Fools
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The Feast of Fools is held on 28th December and is open to anyone that has attended an event before. This is because it is held in a private dwelling.
The Feast of Fools is a gathering which takes the form of a party with singing. There are a number of ritual elements and also singing. It lasts about two hours and there is no circle cast
The central event of the feast is that a cake is given out and one person who finds a bean becomes king for a day. There will also be a horse oracle and dance as usual. The feast of fools was turned into the Feast of the Ass in its Christianised form but we return to its roots.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_the_Ass
In the original festival people chanted the name of god Y-HWH (eey-awh). We will do this as part of the horse oracle. Reginald Scot describes this type of event in 'The Discoverie'
"The divell oftentimes in the likenes of a sumner, meeteth them at markets and faires, and warneth them to appeere in their assemblies, at a certeine houre in the night. If they be lame, he saith the divell delivereth them a staffe, to conveie them thither invisiblie through the aire ; and that then they fall a dansing and singing of bawdie songs, wherein he leadeth the danse himselfe. Which danse, and other conferencies being ended, he supplieth their wants of roots to intoxicate withall."
In this case please bring your own drink, we will sing but it will not be 'bawdie'. Space will be provided for anyone coming by broomstick or on the 'divells staffe'
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Feast of Fools