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Damh The Bard-The Wicker Man
Category: Religion & Spirituality
Duration: 01:03:05
Publish Date: 2019-06-07 12:43:09
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This is Damh's story about the history and legends of The Wicker Man and how his song came to be. "I will never forget the first time I was part of a Wicker Man ceremony at a camp. It was the Lughnasadh camp of the Order of Bards Ovates and Druids, and I guess is it was 1998. The figure had been built in the woods over the course of 10 days and was made of strong hazel and willow filled with fallen deadwood. It was massive. About 25 feet tall. When it came time to bring him out of the woods it took almost everyone at the camp to lift him and carry him to the centre of the field. Then he lay there offering us another logistic issue – how to raise him. Then raising him to the sound of the Awen in the afternoon, to the torchlit procession and ritual at night. When it came to lighting him the drums and voices rang out into the night. It was, at that time, the biggest fire I had ever seen."
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