The Broad (folk custom)
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The Broad (folk custom)
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The Broad was a folk custom found in the Cotswolds, an area of south-central England, during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The tradition entails the use of a hobby horse with a bull's head that is mounted on a pole and carried by an individual hidden under a sackcloth. It represents a regional variation of a "hooded animal" tradition that appears in various forms throughout the British Isles. The Broad custom took place at Christmas time, with the folklorist Christina Hole refer
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English folk custom
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Broad_(folk_custom)
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2023-11-19T19:18:56Z
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