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Quaint British Christmas Customs Survive in England
Reader glimpses of enduring English Christmas rites across counties. Cornwall fisherfolk perform guise dances, boys dress as girls, some wear blackface. Hampshire workers reenact the mummers play with pseudo Norman armor. Allendale tar-burn parade on New Year’s. Burghead claws Clavie fire. Carhampton wassailing hails luck with cider and trees. Hax Lincolnshire hoos hood game pits rivals in a rough 600 year old contest.
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England
Shakespeare
Cornwall
Hampshire
Allendale
Burghead
Carhampton
Somerset
Hax
Lincolnshire