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Category: Yule
What to Bring: Yourselves and food and drink to share
Price/Donation: n/a
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Acct. Id: 177482
Event Id: 66536
Posted: Sep.20.2009
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The Circle of Ankerwycke [Witchvox Sponsor] presents...
Yule Ritual and Mummers Play
When: Dec. 21st. 2009
Where: Ankerwycke, near Staines, England
The festive season starts here
Event Details: The Pagan celebration of Winter Solstice (also known as Yule) is one of the oldest winter celebrations in the world.
Ancient people were hunters and spent most of their time outdoors. The seasons and weather played a very important part in their lives. Because of this many ancient people had a great reverence for, and even worshipped the sun. The Norsemen of Northern Europe saw the sun as a wheel that changed the seasons. It was from the word for this wheel, houl, that the word yule is thought to have come. At mid-winter the Norsemen lit bonfires, told stories and drank sweet ale.
The ancient Romans also held a festival to celebrate the rebirth of the year. Saturnalia ran for seven days from the 17th of December. It was a time when the ordinary rules were turned upside down. Men dressed as women and masters dressed as servants. The festival also involved decorating houses with greenery, lighting candles, holding processions and giving presents.
At Ankerwycke we celebrate the longest night of the year in style. Embracing tradition, this year we will hold a mummers play alongside the Yule ritual so it promises to be an evening of fun and surprises. Not forgetting the fight between the Holly and the Oak Kings, performed as usual by experienced re-enactors in costume.
Our location is quite private and allows us to be as noisy as we like for this special occasion.
With hundreds of tealights in the woods, the air thick with the traditional frankincense incense and the rythmic beat of the drum, this will be a very special night indeed.
We restrict numbers on this evening so please make contact if you wish to attend.
Event Location: Ankerwycke in Ankerwycke, near Staines
Event TIME Details: 8pm till late
Directions: Call or email for directions and to let us know you would like to attend. We sometimes have to restrict numbers.
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