English Traditions - Dancing round the village maypole on Mayday (1st May). The annually elected May Queen is sitting in a bower at the foot of the pole whilst a 'hobby-horse' dances among the crowds. (In some places the festivities take place on Whit Sunday (Pentecost) or on midsummer's day

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