Wednesday 3 March 2010

The Abbots Bromley Horn Dancers

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3 comments:

gas museum said...

i love this picture, the antlers are have been kept in the church for donkeys,(six white + six black) so to include the old pagan rite into the new christianity. they're given back one day a year in september when they villagers perform a fertility dance and run through the streets before handing all the regalia back to the church ready for the next year. they end up in the pub. we should go.

5 March 2010 at 10:34
Missy Moonpie said...

Oooh I wanna go! When and where is it?

6 March 2010 at 12:20
madam saxwa said...

They are reindeer antlers carbon dating to approx 900 years olds !!! And even these are probably replacing an even older set. It is thought the antlers came over on the reindeer from Scandanavia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbots_Bromley_Horn_Dance

7 March 2010 at 12:51

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