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On Beltane Eve …

 
 
Peter Mason VAT Consultant CMS Cameron McKenna discusses the ECJ's judgment in Abbey National plc and Inscape Investment Fund (joined party) v HM Commissioners of Customs and Excise
 
On Beltane eve it was common to light two fires and drive the cattle between them for 'saining' [purifying] . … At dawn everyone arose to welcome the sun and to wash in the May dew thought to have been the holy water of the Druids but according to oral tradition believed to assure beauty.'
 
Margaret Bennett SCOTTISH CALENDAR CUSTOMS in The Oxford Book of Scottish History (ed. M. Lynch 2001).
 
The Celts were world knowers but the feast of Beltane this...

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