I thought that the Lily White Boys (as mentioned in the lyrics of the 12th-century song Green Grow the Rushes O) were a reference to Christ and St John the Baptist. Well, that was what I was told. But then in John Gardner’s book The Life and Times of Chaucer I came upon a reference… Continue reading Are the pagan Lily White Boys still around….?
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