It is coming to that silly time of the year when women drape clothes around trees and other objects in Warwick, and leave the council to clean up the graffiti. If the women want to knit garments, why not send some to the poor in the third world? And where are the councillors who promised to run a mean lean accountable council?
But more than this, the origin of this ritual is a pagan fertility rite as recorded in the Bible. In 624 BC King Josiah cleansed the nation and the temple of pagan rituals, one of which was when they planted groves of trees and then the women decked them with bright clothes to attract customers. 2 Kings 23:7. And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that (were) by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove. There is nothing new under the sun.
Charles Gaitskell
Stanthorpe
