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HORN DANCE

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 708 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HORN
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DANCE  , a
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medieval
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dance, still celebrated during the
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September " wakes " at Abbots
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Bromley, a
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village on the
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borders of Needwood
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Forest,
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Staffordshire . Six or seven men, each wearing a
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deer's
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skull with antlers, dance through the streets, pursued by a comrade who bestrides a mimic
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horse, and whips the dancers to keep them on the move . The
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horn-dance usually takes
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place on the
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Monday after Wakes
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Sunday, which is the Sunday next after the 4th of September . Originally the dance took place on a Sunday . See Strand
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Magazine for
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November 1896; also Folk-
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lore, vol. vii . (1896), p . 381 .

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