On this day in Appleton, UK, the boughs of a large and very old hawthorn tree are decorated with flowers, flags, and ribbons as a part of a centuries-old Pagan tree-worship ritual known as Bawming the Thorn.

This is a sagred day to Papa Legba, a powerful loa in the Voudoun religion. Originally a Dahomean sun god, Papa Legba is worshiped as the Spirit-master of pathways and crossroads, and is the most important deity of the Voudoun Pantheon.