From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #11401 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 11401 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Hearing Loss: Is Your Brain Shutting Down? ["Hearing Aids" Subject: Hearing Loss: Is Your Brain Shutting Down? Hearing Loss: Is Your Brain Shutting Down? http://airfountain.co.uk/eO79i6hOYiAS7MgEeybMNkzdl2BExuTi0NMPb4NOOdo7B4Kabg http://airfountain.co.uk/rvY7V2vuiywdIzzuKQQKj30VBhV6_9Q0qOK2joPSOZuNB_qZyA he oldest known textual reference to hoodening comes from the Alphabet of Kenticisms, a manuscript authored by Samuel Pegge, an antiquary who served as the vicar of Godmersham in Kent from 1731 to 1751. After Pegge died, the manuscript was obtained by the palaeographer Sir Frederic Madden, and after his death it was purchased by the English Dialect Society, who published it in 1876. In this manuscript Pegge noted simply that "Hoodening (huod.ing) is a country masquerade at Christmas times", comparing it to mumming and the Winster Guisers of Derbyshire. The earliest known textual description of the tradition is provided by a letter that was published in a May 1807 edition of European Magazine. The letter, written anonymously, described an encounter with the hoodeners on a visit to the Kentish coastal town of Ramsgate in Thanet: I found they begin the festivities of Christmas by a curious procession: a party of young people procure the head of a dead horse, which is affixed to a pole about four feet in length; a string is affixed to the lower jaw; a horse-cloth is also attached to the whole, under which one of the parts gets, and by frequently pulling the string, keeps up a loud snapping noise, and is accompanied by the rest of the party, grotesquely habited, with hand-bells; they thus proceed from house to house, ringing their bells, and singing carols and songs; they are commonly gratified with beer and cake, or perhaps with money. This is called, provincially, a Hodening. Later commenting on this source, Maylam highli ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #11401 ***********************************************