Liturgy for a Sunny Day

The Beaker People stagger outside, amazed at the unfamiliar yellow object beaming from the sky. Soggy wildlife awakes in the unaccustomed light and wonders.

The swifts exult across the sky. The wodewosen perform their lumbering "dance of the oaken-folk" as, for the first time in these seven years, the female wodewose suspects it may be the mating season.

Elven folk sing their Summer Carol in far-ancient tongues. Their eyes, born of the first light Anthony Eden saw play, are ancient - but their hearts, in this shimmering air, are young once more.

Creeping through the plantation and down to the brook, we see a young figure, sitting still by a pool. We watch, in reverence, as Narcissus is turned to a flower.

All: That'll be that global warming.

Of Pumpkins and Plagiarism

Between the important matters of Stephen Fry's Twittering and the ancient commemoration of All Souls' it would seem foolish to share anything else.  But then you find this.   http://r-liggins0811-dc.blogspot.com/2009/10/rituals-involving-pumpkins.html  Someone has summarised the Beaker Folk Pumpkin Ritual.  In years to come new neo-pagan groups will no doubt claim it's a 2000 year old ritual.  They will of course be right....  As long as they leave it 2000 years.  And they've done it without crediting the site.  Young Keith's uncle the Police Constable is looking under "P" for "Plagiarism" even as we speak.  I tell you, it's enough to get someone drummed out of the Angular Rusting University Druidic Studies course.