Saturday, 2 December 2017

John of inverkeithing

During Easter in 1282 in Scotland, the parish priest of Inverkeithing led young women in a dance in honor of Dionysus. He danced and sang at the front, carrying a representation of the phallus on a pole. He was killed by a Christian mob later that year.
Maxwell, Herbert (1913). The Chronicle of Lanercost, 1272-1346. Glasgow, Scotland: Glasgow : J. Maclehose. p. 29-30.
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