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Bible Encyclopedias
Horn Dance
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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A medieval dance, still celebrated during the September "wakes" at Abbots Bromley, a village on the borders of Needwood Forest, Staffordshire. Six or seven men, each wearing a deer's skull with antlers, dance through the streets, pursued by a comrade who bestrides a mimic horse, and whips the dancers to keep them on the move. The horn-dance usually takes place on the Monday after Wakes Sunday, which is the Sunday next after the 4th of September. Originally the dance took place on a Sunday.
See Strand Magazine for November 1896; also Folk-lore, vol. vii. (1896), p. 381.
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Bibliography Information
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Horn Dance'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/h/horn-dance.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Horn Dance'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/h/horn-dance.html. 1910.
