3. Going out at daybreak to gather Whitethorn or May (Sycamore in Cornwall), and making whistles of the branches for the May-music and merry-making. Blowing of tin horns at daybreak by boys, and from money received getting breakfast at a farmhouse. 4. Flower-bedecked girls dance round a Maypole, and one chosen as “Queen of the May.” 5. In Cornwall the custom prevailed till lately of going out with buckets or any available vessels full of water and thoroughly wetting anyone who was not wearing a piece of May. 6. The “Furry Dance” (in Cornwall), which consists in dancing through the town and also through as many houses as desired. If resistance is offered it is permitted to break open the door, and no penalty can be imposed. 7. Sacrifices made (Isle of Man) at a very ancient date, and probably human ones still earlier (Scotland). 8. Special worship at holy wells. Flowers are public property on Flora Day, and this custom of dancing through the _houses_ is supposed to have originated probably for the purpose of picking the flowers in the gardens behind. The following is a short abstract of a very interesting account given in _The Western Weekly News_, May 13th, 1905, of the “Flora Day” at Helston, Cornwall, which took place this year. It gives us an idea of former festivals which are so quickly dying out:-- The Furry Dance is always the feature of the day. The first part took place at seven o’clock in the morning, at which hour two couples started out and danced through the streets and through some houses of residents. The great dance was at noon, and those taking part in it assembled in the Corn Exchange. When all was ready the whole company, headed by a band playing the old Furry Dance, started out and danced through the town and through many houses. The rest of the day was given over to a Horse Show and to much merry-making. Excursions had been run from all parts. II. _The Rowan Tree and Witchcraft._ There is little doubt that in the constant association of the Rowan with the May worship and the holy wells which were adjacent to the stone circles where the worship was conducted, we find the reason of the selection of the wood of the Rowan Tree as an antidote to all the ills which witchcraft was supposed to bring about. Rhys tells us that “The tree has also the old names of Quicken-tree, Roddon, and Witchen-tree.”