ab:dance.txt                                                       16jan90



                       The Meeting Dance


   The Maiden should lead. A man should place both hands on her waist,
   standing behind her, and alternate men and women do the same, the
   Maiden leading and they dance following her. She at last leads them
   into a right-hand spiral. When the center is reached (and this had
   better be marked by a stone) she suddenly turns round and dances back,
   kissing each man as she comes to him. All men and women turn likewise
   and dance back, men kissing women and women kissing men.  All in time
   to music, it is a merry game, but must be practiced to be done well.
   Note, the musician should watch the dancers and make the music fast or
   slow as is best. For the beginners it should be slow, or there will be
   confusion. It is most excellent to get people to know each other at big
   gatherings.
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   -Published in Janet & Stewart Farrar's "The Witches' Way", from GBG's
    BOS (the same version exists in Text B and Text C of his BOS)