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	Haxey Hood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Haxey Hood Game is a game of football traditionally played at Haxey in the English county of Lincolnshire on the afternoon of January 6th or Twelfth Day.
		Haxey is a large parish on the southern border of the Isle of Axholme.
		The Hood, which cannot be thrown or run with, is moved slowly by 'swaying', that is pushing and pulling the Hood and people within the 'Sway' toward the direction of their pub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Haxey_Hood_Game (1877 words)

	Football (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Roman game of Harpastu is believed to have been adapted from a team game known as "επισκυρος" (episkyros) or pheninda that is mentioned by Greek playwright, Antiphanes (388-311BC) and later referred to by Clement of Alexandria.
		These chaotic games would be played between neighbouring towns and villages in which an unlimited number of players on opposing teams would clash in a heaving mass of people struggling to drag an inflated pig's bladder by any means possible to markers at each end of a town.
		The game was played up until January 1739 but it was revived in May 1930 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of this famous match and is still played as a tourist attraction today.
	uncover.us /en/wikipedia/f/fo/football_1.html (4810 words)

	Haxey Hood -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is a kind of rugby football game, where a leather tube is slowly walked by a large unorganised rugby scrum to 1 of 4 (Tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals) pubs, where it remains until the following year's game.
		Haxey is a large (A local church community) parish on the southern border of the (additional info and facts about Isle of Axholme) Isle of Axholme.
		The thirteen willow wands are supposed to represent the twelve ((New Testament) one of the original 12 disciples chosen by Christ to preach his gospel) apostles and the upside down one represents ((New Testament) the Apostle who betrayed Jesus to his enemies for 30 pieces of silver) Judas.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/ha/haxey_hood.htm (1960 words)

	Haxey Hood Game
		The Haxey Hood Game is a game of football traditionally played at Haxey in the English county of Lincolnshire on the afternoon of January 6th prior to Twelfth Night.
		The initial processions is accompanied by the Hood song which boasts of drinking old England dry.
		However folklorists have suggested that the Hood was originally the head or penis of a sacrificial animal used in a fertility ritual.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/haxey_hood_game (318 words)

	Online dictionary - Haxey Hood
		So amused was she by this act of chivalry and the resulting chase, that she donated 13 acres (53,000 m²) of land on condition that the chase for the hood would be re-enacted each year.
		Records show that John De Mowbray (29/11/1310 - 4/11/1361) the 3rd Baron Mowbray of Axholme, would be the most likely candidate for the Husband of the Lady.
		This would date the Hood circa 1359 when a deed granting land to commoners was enacted by the Baron.
	fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Haxey_Hood_Game (1871 words)

	The Game of Haxey Hood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The ceremonies of Haxey Hood begin in the early afternoon with the procession of the Fool and his twelve ‘Boggans’ up the village street to a small green outside the parish church.
		The Hood may not be kicked or tossed forward, but only 'swayed', that is, pushed, pulled, or dragged towards one of the three pubs that serve as the 'goals' of this strenuous contest.
		The flying hood was pursued and caught by twelve labourers who happened to be working nearby, though not without considerable difficulty because of the strength of the wind.
	www.pubpeople.com /files/TheGameof_HaxeyHood (1236 words)

	The Game of Haxey Hood
		The old and unusual game known as the Hood Game, or Throwing the Hood, is played every year on Old Christmas Day, January 6th, at Haxey in north Lincolnshire.
		On this date, Haxey Hood, one of the two annual Feasts of the parish, is held.
		The function of the Boggans is to prevent the Hood from crossing the boundary.
	www.petticoated.com /curious24.htm (1229 words)

	ash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Haxey Hood Game in Yorkshire is another instance: a huge football scrum, like a beast with its own life, as two villages fight for possession of a chunk of wood, the goal being their own village pub, where the 'hood' is put up over the bar.
		He holds aloft the "Hood" which is actually a roll of canvas.
		It now consists of the two large villages of Haxey and Westwoodside with the hamlets of Burnham (High and Low), Eastlound and Graiselound (or Craiselound as it is referred to by some people).
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~cornwall/ball/hax.htm (460 words)

	It's Traditional.....Localised customs and traditions
		It is said to have originated in the 13th century when a gust of wind blew the hood off the Lady de Mowbray while she was out riding.
		The "Hood" is now a leather cylinder and the players are teams from the local pubs, where the game begins and ends.
		The "Hood," which cannot be thrown or run with, is passed between teams of unlimited size, supervised by "King Boggan" and his boggans, and a Fool.
	traditions-uk.freeservers.com /local.html (1198 words)

	Geographical : LETTERS. @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The centuries-old Hood Game is contested each Twelfth Night of Christmas by a mighty, muddy mass scrum of local pub regulars known as the `sway'.
		The hood itself is a sort of long, leather loofah flung into the middle of a field to start the game.
		The marathon happening is refereed by the Lord of the Hood, accompanied by his chief Boggin, both wearing scarlet hunting coats and hats decorated with flowers and plumes.
	static.highbeam.com /g/geographical/june012001/letters (200 words)

	Wheewall.com \| Haxey Hood \| 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Back at the Hood with Mik Sanger, and I didn't have a camera to bring, on account that I'd left it at a friends in London.
		If you don't know what the Haxey Hood is, then click here for an explaination.
		So, the Hood started late this year, as the procession didn't arrive at the church until 14:50.
	www.wheewall.com /hood/2003/hood2003.htm (227 words)

	Haxey Hood Game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Haxey Hood Game is a game of football traditionally playedat Haxey in the English county of Lincolnshire on the afternoon of January 6th prior to TwelfthNight.
		The hood is a two foot long leather cylinder which is carried by the Fool, who has a flened face.He is accompanied by the Lord of the Hood, who wears a red jacket and top hat adorned with flowers.
		Howeverfolklorists have suggested that the Hood was originally the head or penis of asacrificial animal used in a fertility ritual.
	www.therfcc.org /haxey-hood-game-154843.html (251 words)

	glossary
		January 6th (unless the date falls on a Sunday when the game is moved to a Saturday, 5th of January).
		The term which refers to the collection of the Hood from behind the bar of the previous year's winning pub on New Years Eve.
		Term used to describe the touching of the Hood by the winning Landlord (also known as freeing).
	web.ukonline.co.uk /haxeyhood/pages/glossary.htm (395 words)

	Football at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Greeks and Romans are known to have played many ball games some of which involved the use of the feet.
		Later attempts at banning the game in England (notably by Richard II in 1389, Henry IV in 1401, and Henry VIII in 1540) and Scotland (James II in 1457) all failed to curb the people's desire to play the game.
		Consequently, a series of meetings between 19 colleges in 1905-06, reputedly at the behest of President Theodore Roosevelt, who was considered to be a fancier of the game but who had threatened to ban it if it could not be modified to reduce the numbers of deaths and disabilities associated with it.
	wiki.tatet.com /Football.html (4760 words)

	Pint Pleasures: Two pubs in Lincolnshire and Leicestershire / The Haxey Hood
		Every January 6th residents of Haxey and nearby Westwoodside compete in the Haxey Hood, a traditional game with hazy origins, the most popular explanation being that the wife of a local landowner was riding along when her scarf blew off.
		Today regulars from the three pubs in Haxey and one in Westwoodside play the evolved version of this game, where a long roll of leather is pushed by the mass of participants from a muddy field toward the pub of their choice while a large crowd of onlookers cheers them on.
		Since the annual Hood was another two and a half weeks away, the Duke was fairly sedate on this particular day.
	www.coffeebeer.co.uk /pintpleasures/lincolnleicester.html (714 words)

	ipedia.com: Football Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The first recorded "football" match in Canada, and perhaps the first in North America, was a game played at University College, University of Toronto on November 9, 1861.
		However, the first game of "rugby" in Canada is generally said to have taken place in Montreal, in 1865, when British Army officers played local civilians.
		The first match generally said to have occurred under English FA (soccer) rules in the USA was a game between Princeton and Rutgers in 1869.
	www.ipedia.com /football_1.html (5122 words)

	TC Lethbridge \| The Sons of TC-Lethbridge \| News
		The winner of this year’s Haxey Hood Game was the north-westerly wind that blew across the Isle of Axeholme.
		I am certain that all such games, be they ancient or modern, will evoke a spirit of initiation that is in its self, metaphorical of the apprenticeship of life.
		The Haxey man informed me that the ‘enthusiasm’ of the younger participants resulted in the scrum becoming a ‘running sway’ and because of this gusto, the pack frequently collapsed – hence the slow progress.
	www.tc-lethbridge.com /news?id=46 (2002 words)

	Gazetteer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The first of a number of minor "hoods" is throw up by the Lord and competed for, in which the players must try to get hold of the hood and carry it across the boundary into his own parish.
		Eventually comes The Sway in which the main hood is competed for; this breaks out into a complete free for all, with all participants attempting to be the one who gets the hood into one of the 3 pubs which have been designated as goals for the occasion.
		The landlord into whose pub the main hood is eventually carried provides free drinks for all and plays host to the hood until the following year.
	www.whitedragon.org.uk /calendar/caljan.htm (2235 words)

	North Lincolnshire Council - Haxey and Westwoodside Heritage Society
		The Haxey and Westwoodside Heritage Society was formed in 1983 by inhabitants of Haxey Parish, both native and newcomers who were concerned at the rapid changes occurring in the Parish and the loss of knowledge about the Parish as a result.
		Commanded by the Lord of the Hood and his attendant Boggins, the game consists of getting the Hood, a hard leather cylinder, to your pub, by means of a 'sway' of players.
		The Game begins when The Fool is 'smoked' on the plinth of a cross outside the Church.
	www.northlincs.gov.uk /NorthLincs/Leisure/libraries/localandfamilyhistory/localstudies/HaxeyandWestwoodsideHeritageSociety.htm (497 words)

	HOOD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Search the HOOD Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
		Search the HOOD Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
		Find graves of people named HOOD at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
	www.worldhistory.com /surname/US/H/HOOD.htm (82 words)

	A Lincolnshire Hotchpotch
		The game is said to have originated in the thirteenth century when a certain Lady de Mowbray who was the wife of John de Mowbray a landowner on the Isle of Axholme was out riding.
		As she was riding over the hill between the villages of Westwoodside and Haxey her hood was blown away by the wind.
		The intention nowadays is to propel the hood to the door of either the Carpenters Arms, Westwoodside or the King’s Arms, Haxey.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /john.ketteringham/hotchpotch.htm (6933 words)

	The world's top three sided football websites
		Played on a hexagonal pitch, the game can be adapted for similarity to soccer as well as other versions of football.
		The first known game played was organized by the London Psychogeographical Association at the Glasgow Anarchist Summer School in 1993.
		The Haxey Hood Game is a traditional football game which was until recently played by three teams.
	dirs.org /wiki-article-tab.cfm/three_sided_football (179 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Haxey Hood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This is an extract from The Middle East Open Encyclopedia, made possible through the Wikimedia Foundation.
		Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, Haxey Hood; all previous versions may be viewed here.
		They link directly to authoring tools for you to start writing a particular article.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=Haxey_Hood (2009 words)

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		Or how about in Hooded Man (I think) where Robert says "do you love me? Or do you just love Herne's Son?" (Translation: "You're a god groupie.") Granted, Marion's behavior toward Robert is understandable for a woman traumatized by grief.
		Raven, I don't know of any Craft groups using Robin Hood as a tradition, but I have heard that John and Caitlin Matthews will be holding a celebration of Beltane and the Robin Hood legend on April 25, 1992 in London.
		It was his death as Robin Hood and rebirth as Herne (Dread Lord of Death aspect of God).
	www.etext.org /Zines/ASCII/Cousins/cous2 (7652 words)

	Stan Gooch, Book Descriptions
		Others in this numerical lineage of covens are Robin Hood and the 12 merry men, as well as King Arthur and his 12 knights.
		Robin is the commonest name for a witch's familiar throughout Britain, and also slang for the penis (from robinet, a tap or faucet).
		Hood itself is a reference to Neanderthal's traditional headgear, as can be deduced from the venerable Haxey Hood game, and numerous other sources.
	www.brentlogan.net /sg/book_descpt.htm (1918 words)

	Wheewall.com \| Haxey Hood \| 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Epiphany fell on a Sunday this year, so the Hood was held on Saturday 5th January 2002.
		However I've still not done the Hood properly.
		The game ends as the Hood reaches the Kings.
	www.wheewall.com /hood/2002/hood2002.htm (133 words)

	Ø Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine \| Book of Days \| January 6 Part 2 \| Epiphany Twelfth Day Twelfth Night ...
		Seasonal dramas are performed outside the Globe (a re-creation of Shakespeare’s famous playhouse), followed by a procession through the streets to Borough Market for mulled ale, fine food, storytelling and dancing.
		In the 13th Century when a gust of wind whipped off the hood of the Lady de Mowbray, farm labourers chased and retrieved the headpiece.
		Now, each Twelfth Day, regulars of the village's pubs join the ‘sway’ to take the hood back to their local tavern.
	www.wilsonsalmanac.com /book/jan6a.html (4139 words)

	Camelot Village: Britain's Heritage and History
		From a market stall here one Michael Marks went on to conquer the high streets of the land with M&S. The liquorice for the famous Pontefract cakes- a-crown size pastilles - is no longer grown here, but local firms still produce the tasty treat with the emblem on top.
		SHEFFIELD The best indoor swimming pool facilities in the country are at Pond's Forge, and the city hosted the World Student Games in a blare of publicity.
		January 6: the traditional Haxey Hood Game, which has been played for around 700 years, is held in Haxey, near Doncaster.
	www.camelotintl.com /heritage/counties/england/yorkshire.html (2056 words)

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