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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...'murrydancers,' or 'merry-dancers.' In Shetland the name 'merry dancers' is given to the aurora borenlis (J. Spence, Shetland Folk-Lore, 116). Leicester F. L. 93. The dance was on Plough Monday with paper The morris-dance is by no means confined to England. There are records of it from Scotland 3, Germany4, Flanders5, Switzerland0, Italy", Spain, and France'. In the last-named masks, a plough, the bullocks, men in women's dresses, one called Maid Marian, Curly the fool, and Beelzebub. This is, I think, the only survival of the name Maid Marian, and it may be doubted if even this is really popular and not literary. 1 P. Manning, Oxfordshire Seasonal Festivals, in F. L. viii. 317, summarizes accounts from fourteen villages, and gives illustrations. There are always six dancers. A broad garter of bells is worn below the knee. There are two sets of figures: in one handkerchiefs are carried, in the other short staves are swung and clashed. Sometimes the dancers sing to the air, which is that of an old countrydance. There is always a fool, who carries a stick with a bladder and cow's tail, and is called in two places 'Rodney,' elsewhere the 'squire.' The music is that of a pipe and tabor ('whittle'and 'dub') played by one man; a fiddle is now often used. At Bampton there was a solo dance between crossed tobacco-pipes. At Spelsbury and at Chipping Warden the dance used to be on the church-tower. At the Bampton Whit-feast and the Ducklington Whit-hunt, the dancers were accompanied by a swordbearer, who impaled a cake. A sword-bearer also appears in a list of Finstock dancers, given me by Mr. T. J. Carter, of Oxford. He also told me that the dance on Spelsbury church-tower, seventy years ago, was by women. Norfolk, Monmouthshire, Berkshire (Douce,...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1153890879
- ISBN 13 9781153890878
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages190
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