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LEJ	Hokey pokey and the Druids? (107* d)	RE: Hokey pokey and the Druids?	09 Jun 99
What Alice didn't tell you and may not even know is that Larry LaPrise visited Stonehenge at the Summer Solstice in 1946, and participated in the Sanctification of the Limbs Ceremony, where Druid Priests dance in a circle around the Altar of the Oak, waving their arms, legs, feet etc over the altar in order to purify their bodies. Is it a coincidence that the ancient name for this ceremony is ahochi pahochi ? It has also been recounted in Joel Hartung's Knock on Wood : Druidical Thought in Theory and Practice that a band of Druids, angry at LaPrise's incorporation of the sacred ceremony into his song, cursed him "to walk the earth for the rest of his life, whether through rain or snow or sleet or dark of night", which some say accounts for his postal career. LEJ

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