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Updated: May 16, 2025
The other furnishes nothing peculiar except a name: the ceremony is called a hoodening, and the hobby-horse a hooden. It will be generally agreed that these slender premises are totally inadequate to support the weighty conclusion that is rested upon them. Why the adventures of Robin Hood should be specially assigned, as they are in the old ballads, to the month of May, remains unexplained.
Thomas's Day, and "hoodening" or horse-head mumming is practised at Walmer, and bull-hoodening prevails at Kingscote, in Gloucestershire. The ancient custom of "goodening" still obtains at Braughing, Herts. The Hertfordshire Mercury of December 28, 1907, states that on St.
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