James Frazer "The golden Bough"

The quote provided by Frazer in "The Gold Branch", which is very well characterizing the Judaism relation to the Nature and customs of ancestors:

The Puritan writer Philipp Stubbs in the book "Anatomy of Abuses" which was first time published in London in 1583 with obvious disgust describes how this custom was observed during government of the kind queen Elizabeth. His narration informs us of a live echo of cheerful old England. "On the May holiday, on the Trinity or in other time all young people, girls, elderly people and their wives go at night to the woods, to groves, to mountains and to hills where all night long carry out in pleasant entertainments. And in the morning they come back, bringing with themselves for decoration of the concourses a birch and branches of trees. There is nothing to be surprised because great governor stays with them and looks after their entertainments; it is a prince of hell the Satan. But the greatest treasure which they bring with themselves is a May tree: they with great respect bring it in the village.

Twenty or forty couples of bulls (the ends of their horns are tied up by bouquets of flowers) drag the May tree - this stinking idol decorated by flowers and herbs which is corded from the basis to top by ropes and sometimes embellished in the different flowers. With great awe it followed by two or three hundreds of men, women and children. Having erected this tree with the fluttering scarfs and flags, they cover the earth with straw around, tie up green branches and build summer lodges and arbors near. And then they begin to dance around him as pagans at sanctification of idols whom they imitate. I heard from very respectable and credible people that one third from forty, sixty or hundred girls who have gone to the wood came back home so pure".

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