First a local myth about the opening of the season of flowers and fruit formerly was celebrated throughout Europe, and still is..
The celebration marks that WE leave Winter behind to welcome Summer,fruits & flowers and as a symbolic thing it’s a tradition to

jump over the bonfire and make a wish/get rid of the darkness, to be

May Queen “girl or young woman crowned with flowers and honoured as queen at the gamos held on May Day.
The witches blow out the candles and arrange a dance at a special mountain because it’s often foggy..

around it so they are hidden like they want to be when they move like shadows around the fire and under the moon this tradition is still present, but it has always been a mysticism to this aknce since I was a kid when I was told about these witches and the myth about capturing..

..The May Queen and marry her as a competition for the men who has to run after her.

She goes first then he moves quicky trying to find her as my uncle told decades ago.

I’m pretty sure he added some extra to make it exciting for us and we were indeed.

There are various ways to celebrate this and some details may change from place to place but the essence is the same.

In some Pagan belief systems, typically those that follow

a Wiccan tradition, the focus of Beltane is on the battle between

the May Queen and the Queen of Winter. The May Queen is Flora, the goddess of the flowers, and the young blushing bride, and the princess of the Fae. She is Lady Marian in the Robin Hood tales, and Guinevere in the Arthurian cycle. She is the embodiment of the Maiden, of mother earth in all of her fertile glory.

Locally it’s a tradition that the kids take a bath the 1st of May to welcome the Summer.

I was also told an Irish tradition, On May first women get up at dawn and wash their faces in the dew was supposed to keep your skin beautiful. Maybe there is a connection with us bathing 1st of May?

It’s unsure if some traditions are just a family tradition or spread wider. If you know anything I could add. Feel free to contact me.

in the Arthurian cycle. She is the embodiment of the Maiden, of mother earth in all of her fertile glory.

Leucanthemum ‘May Queen’
Genus: Leucanthemum
Species: –
Variety: ‘May Queen’

Plant Type: Herbaceous Perennial

Thanks for reading, mgs