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HODENING

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 556 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HODENING , an See also:

ancient See also:Christmas See also:custom still surviving in See also:Wales, See also:Kent, See also:Lancashire and elsewhere. A See also:horse's See also:skull or a wooden See also:imitation on a See also:pole is carried See also:round by a party of youths, one of whom conceals himself under a See also:white See also:cloth to simulate the horse's See also:body, holding a lighted See also:candle in the skull. They make a See also:house-to-house visitation, begging gratuities. The " See also:Penitential " of See also:Archbishop See also:Theodore (d. 69o) speaks of " any who, on the kalands of See also:January, clothe themselves with the skins of See also:cattle and carry heads of animals." This, coupled with the fact that among the See also:primitive Scandinavians the horse was often the See also:sacrifice made at the See also:winter See also:solstice to See also:Odin for success in See also:battle, has been thought to justify the theory that hodening is a corruption of Odining.

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