The Clipping Feast of Painswick, also known as the Clipping
Ceremony, is an unusual, early medieval ceremony that anthropologists think may
have begun in the dim Celtic prehistory of Britain. Every September, a month
that coincides with the harvest ceremonies of pagans, adults and as many children
as can be mustered hold hands in a circle around St. Mary's Anglican Church.
The circle moves first one way, then the other,
