Book of Shadows
The
Cone of Power
This was the old way.
The circle was marked out and people stationed to
whip up the dancers.
A fire or candle was within it in the direction
where the object of
the rite was supposed to be. Then all danced round
until they felt they
had raised enough power. If the rite was to banish
they started deosil
and finished tuathil, so many rounds of each. Then
they formed a line
with linked hands and rushed towards the fire
shouting the thing
they wanted. They kept it up 'til they were
exhausted or until
someone fell in a faint, when they were said to have
taken the spell to
its destination.
-Doreen Valiente gives
just about the same text in "The Rebirth of
Witchcraft",
describing it as notes she made from Gerald Gardner's
description of
the ritual used to deter Hitler from invading Great
Britain