Book of Shadows
Cone of Power 2
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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
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