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From the compilation 'John Barleycorn Reborn (Cold Spring 2007)

From the liner notes:
"The track Hippomania is a hypothetical evocation of a ritual discussed in Robert Graves' 'The White Goddess'. In the chapter The Triple Muse, Graves weaves a wonderful poetic mythology around May Day ... According the Graves' vision, at the foot of Mount Helicon, women-votaries took part in erotic fertility dances about a stone herm. Clearly this has an imagined correlation with the maypole. To stimulate their esctasies, the Muse priestesses may have used ...a black membrane cut from the forehead of a newborn colt, called the hippomanes. The hippomanes is said to have aphrodisiac qualities ...