City Druids line up to put a spring in their step

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London

March 21, 2005

City Druids line up to put a spring in their step
By Sam Coates
IT WAS an incongruous sight: 40 hooded Druids staging a fertility ritual next to the Tower of London, while customers from an adjacent fast-food restaurant looked on in bewilderment.

Yesterday was the spring equinox, one of two dates each year when day and night are of equal length. Since the earliest times this has been celebrated by pagan festivals, with Druids and others gathering round the bonfire to chant, sing, dance and leap through the flames, while praying for a bountiful harvest.

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Here the Ancient Druid Order, a pagan group based in the financial heart of London which includes businessmen, a dancer, an osteopath and an alternative therapist, donned their white cloaks to take part in the traditional ceremony, begun in London in 1717.

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Led by David Loxley, the Chief Druid, the group assembled next to Tower Hill Underground Station to call for peace and prosperity, and mourn the passing of the dead.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,4484-1535230,00.html

Check out the article for more about this group and some interesting tidbits about Druid history in England.

Bright Blessings
J

[strangemedicine]

1. This is lovely.

Thank you, J. It's always fun to know the goings on "across the pond."

Bright Blessings back atcha!
J.