In pictures: A journey through the English ritual year
In pictures: A journey through the English ritual year
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: In pictures: A journey through the English ritual year
A stramge island nation, indeed.
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
Re: In pictures: A journey through the English ritual year
My friends Dad was a Britannia Coconutter, a very peculiar morris dance. She still follows the tradition of walking the boundary to boundary walk with the 'nutters on Easter Saturday.
The Britannia Coco-nut Dancers, named after a mill not far from Bacup, are unique in the tradition, in that they used sawn bobbins to make a noise, and perform to the accompaniment of a brass ensemble. They are one of the few North West morris groups that still black up their faces. It is said that the dance found its way to the area through Cornishmen who migrated to work in the Rossendale quarries
Come gather Iads'n lasses, its Easter Satdi!
An' t' Nutters' are owt dancin i' their own special way.
Weyvin thru t' town, this age owd pagan dance.
Spring spirits they invite, nowt 's left t' chance