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See also:HORN See also:DANCE , a See also:medieval See also:dance, still celebrated during the See also:September " wakes " at Abbots See also:Bromley, a See also:village on the See also:borders of Needwood See also:Forest, See also:Staffordshire . Six or seven men, each wearing a See also:deer's See also:skull with antlers, dance through the streets, pursued by a comrade who bestrides a mimic See also:horse, and whips the dancers to keep them on the move . The See also:horn-dance usually takes See also:place on the See also:Monday after Wakes See also:Sunday, which is the Sunday next after the 4th of September . Originally the dance took place on a Sunday . See Strand See also:Magazine for See also:November 1896; also Folk-See also:lore, vol. vii . (1896), p . 381 . |
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