From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #11396 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Saturday, May 20 2023 Volume 14 : Number 11396 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Your Hundred Dollar Best Buy Offer Is Waiting ["URGENT Notification" Subject: Your Hundred Dollar Best Buy Offer Is Waiting Your Hundred Dollar Best Buy Offer Is Waiting http://eageleye.co.uk/M9wCpdKhirlNOGV7V9hxnuIw4sOha8M-G-D9npeKp03142jIew http://eageleye.co.uk/cjXH5c4SQmXevP_4vlR7oQWUCIa267FhmSS3TJNO6A4y26iCAA on a pole and carried by a person hidden under a sackcloth. Originally, the tradition was restricted to the area of East Kent, although in the twentieth century it spread into neighbouring West Kent. It represents a regional variation of a "hooded animal" tradition that appears in various forms throughout the British Isles. As recorded from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, hoodening was a tradition performed at Christmas time by groups of farm labourers. They would form into teams to accompany the hooden horse on its travels around the local area, and although the makeup of such groups varied, they typically included someone to carry the horse, a leader, a man in female clothing known as a "Mollie", and several musicians. The team would then carry the hooden horse to local houses and shops, where they would expect payment for their appearance. Although this practice is extinct, in the present the hooden horse is incorporated into various Kentish Mummers plays and Morris dances that take place at different times of the year. The origins of the hoodening tradition, and the original derivation of the term hooden, remain subject to academic debate. An early suggestion was that hooden was related to the Anglo-Saxon pre-Christian god Woden, and that the tradition therefore originated with pre-Christian religious practices in the early medieval Kingdom of Kent. This idea has not found support from historians or folklorists studying the tradition. A more widely accepted explanation among scholars is that the term hooden relates to hooded, a reference to the sackcloth worn by the person carrying the horse. The absence of late medieval references to such practices and the geographic dispersal of the various British hooded animal traditionsbamong them the Mari Lwyd of south Wales, the Broad of the Cotswolds, and the Old Ball, O ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #11396 ***********************************************