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

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