Traditional Foods

All red fruits (such as strawberries and cherries), green herbal salads
red or pink wine punch, and large round oatmeal or barley cakes known as
"Beltane Cakes"

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Traditional Ritual Herbs

almond, angelica, ash tree, bluebells, daisy, frankincense, ivy, lilac
marigold, primrose, roses, satyrion root and woodruff

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Altar Decorations

a small Maypole and/or phallus-shaped candle to symbolize fertility
a daisy chain, springtime wildflowers.

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Incense

frankincense, lilac, rose

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Gemstones

emerald, orange carnelian, sapphire, rose quartz

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Candle Colors

dark green and colors of the rainbow spectrum

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Ritual Potpourri

45 drops frankincense oil
1 cup oak moss
1 cups dried bluebells
1 cups dried lilac
1 cup dried marigold
1 cup dried meadowsweet
1 cup dried rosebuds and petals
1 cup dried yellow cowslips

Mix the frankincense oil with the oak moss, and then add
the remaining ingredients. Stir the potpourri well and
store in a tightly covered, ceramic or glass container

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