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The phallic symbol known as the Maypole, which is decorated with long strands of ribbon that participants would hold onto as they dance, evolved from the Celtic Beltane rituals.
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Original image by April Killingsworth. Uploaded by Ibolya Horvath, published on 25 January 2019 under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution. This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered, in terms of what others can do with your works licensed under Attribution. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.
Killingsworth, A. (2019, January 25). Maypole. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.ancient.eu/image/9943/
Killingsworth, April. "Maypole." World History Encyclopedia. Last modified January 25, 2019. https://www.ancient.eu/image/9943/.
Killingsworth, April. "Maypole." World History Encyclopedia. World History Encyclopedia, 25 Jan 2019. Web. 26 Feb 2021.
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