Note 547 — Chapter VIII · THE MAY-GAME
Reading edition
Cf. ch. vi on the motion deasil round the sacred object. It is curious that the modern round dances go withershins round a room. Grimm, i. 52, quotes Gregory the Great, Dial. iii. 28 on a Lombard sacrifice, ‘caput caprae, hoc ei, per circuitum currentes, carmine nefando dedicantes.’