Maypole

How would you like the maypole decorated?

The maypole, the focal point of many traditional spring games and festivities, is believed to be a relic of ancient phallic worship.

The seemingly innocent Maypole is a relic of witchcraft.

At Ickwell Green, in Bedfordshire, there is a permanent maypole. There, the May Queen is accompanied by moggies (raggedly dressed women) carrying besoms - birch-twig brooms.

The male Golden Bowerbird is a beautiful bird that builds one of the greatest structures in the natural world, a maypole up to three metres tall constructed of sticks and festooned with decorative clusters of flowers and lichens.

and now, disengag'd from the shirt, I saw, with wonder and surprise, what? not the play-thing of a boy, not the weapon of a man, but a maypole of so enormous a standard, that had proportions been observ'd, it must have belong'd to a young giant.

Kristina quieted a little, and maypoled around me.

The line jerked and maypoled itself around the rod.