Traditional May Day celebrations include gathering wildflowers, weaving floral garlands, crowning a May king and queen, and dancing around a decorated Maypole. Such rites originally may have been intended to ensure fertility for crops and, by extension, for livestock and humans, but in most cases this significance was gradually lost, so that the practices survived largely as popular festivities.
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