Hoodening
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Hoodening, also spelled hodening and oodening, is a folk custom found in Kent, a county in South East England. The tradition entails the use of a wooden hobby horse known as a hooden horse that is mou
Hoodeners in Deal, Kent, in 1909
Four Kentish hooden horses of 20th and 21st-century date, on temporary display at Maidstone Museum
"Satan," a hooden horse used by the St Nicholas at Wade with Sarre hoodeners; on display at the Maidstone Museum
The earliest surviving descriptions of hoodening claim that the hooden horse contained a horse's skull, akin to this modern example of the Mari Lwyd, a Welsh hobby horse.
Old Tup
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Old Tup, sometimes termed the Derby Tup or the Derby Ram, is a folk custom found in an area of the East Midlands of England. Geographically, the custom was found on the borders of Derbyshire and Yorks
Hoodening
…dispersal of the various British hooded animal traditions—among them the Mari Lwyd of south Wales, the Broad of the Cotswolds, and the Old Ball, Old Tup, and Old Horse of northern England—have led to suggestions that they derive from the regionalised popularisation of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century…
An individual dressed as Old Tup, at Handsworth, some time prior to 1907
Tup created c.1985 and used by the Comberbach Mummers in Cheshire