European Folk Festivals: The May Day

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• The May Day Festival

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European Folk Festival
Northen Europe
The long, cold and dark winters END
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Pagan times
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Middle Ages
Walpurgis Night
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Walpurgis Night Nowadays

• In Denmark, Norway and Sweden

May Day Eve The Walpurgis Night
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• In Germany

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• In Belgium and eastern Switzerland

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• In Northen France

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• In England

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In the merry month of May Beasts did leap, and
birds did sing, Trees did grow and plants did
spring -- Richard
Barnfield
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