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	Ben Jones: Hoodening History (ancient)
		This is commonly reported as "the Hooden Horse having frightened a lady to death and consequently having been banned by the local magistrates", but this is not at all clear from the original description cited above.
		Hoodening was performed on a couple of nights in Christmas Week (although Tom West's account implies that the "night" actually started while the shops were still open).
		Hoodening still performed in Acol; one of the Hoodeners was William Frederick Castle (b.
	www.japanesetranslations.co.uk /hooden/hoodening-history1.htm (1890 words)

	Hoodening - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hoodening, also called Hodening, is an East Kent tradition vaguely related to Mumming and the Morris dance, and dating back at least to the mid-18th century.
		It was centred on the ploughing teams at farms in and around Thanet, although groups also existed in Deal which were more related to the seamen, and who concentrated on performing music.
		The common feature to all groups was the appearance of a Hooden Horse - a wooden horse's head mounted on a pole, with a sackcloth attached to hide the bearer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hoodening (315 words)

	English Folk Customs
		Whilst today there are, in some form, surviving examples of such hoodening customs, the most well known and popular is that of Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, which itself is said to have continued pretty much unbroken for many many centuries.
		And it has been theorised that the roots of the hobby horse is rooted in traditions such as hoodening, a custom which involved people dressing up in animal skins and carrying the heads of animals.
		Hoodening is an ancient custom that involves people or practitioners to dress up in animal skins or to carry the heads of animals in a ritual or some form of dance or parade.
	www.englishheathenism.homestead.com /folkcustoms.html (3955 words)

	Hop Hoodening - a very English tradition at English Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The longest running example of the Hop Hoodening is to be spotted at the Canterbury Cathedral on the first saturday of September.
		There are also two hooden horses, a sort of horses head atop a wooden pole with drapes hanging to conceal the bearer.
		Loyal supporters of the Hop Hoodening have not been free from their fair share of troubles in trying to keep the spirit of the Hop alive in Kent.
	www.english-blogs.com /hop_hoodening_-_a_very_english_tradition (331 words)

	Yuletide Rituals
		Hoodening is a practice that was observed in Kent and the Isle of Thanet on Christmas Eve...
		Hoodening consisted of carrying either the skull of a real horse or a wooden one from house to house on a pole.
		The head was then carried by one of the Hoodening party, who was covered in furs or hides.
	www.friggasweb.org /yuletide.html (1301 words)

	Heraclitean Fire » Mask of the Week
		The Horse was a man, known as the Hoodener, who held a usually rather crudely carved wooden horse’s head on a stick.
		Attached to the head was a sort of hood of coarse sacking which more or less hid the man. The head itself was made so that the man could jerk a piece of string to make the loosely hinged jaws open and shut with a vicious clacking sound.
		I first learnt about hoodening from the Folk Archive exhibition at the Barbican I went to a little while back.
	heracliteanfire.net /archives/312 (423 words)

	The Unbroken Circle - Hobby Horse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Hoodeners at Walmer on Christmas Eve in 1905.
		Hoodeners from Hale Farm, St Nicholas at Wade in 1905.
		Picture taken from 'Mumming, Howling and Hoodening: Midwinter Rituals in Sussex, Kent and Surrey' by Geoff and Fran Doel.
	www.theunbrokencircle.co.uk /folklore_hobby_horse_pictures.htm (212 words)

	Hoodening
		Hooden Horses are a purely East Kent tradition.
		The fate that Maylem predicted soon overtook the Hoodeners and little was heard about them until just before WWII when a copy of the horse from Sarre appeared at a Folk Dance Festival at Aylesham in Kent.
		He has a white, much more horse-like head than the traditional Hooden Horse which is normally brown and flat sided.
	www.morrisman.f2s.com /Hoodening.htm (720 words)

	Wickhambreaux - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The practice of hoodening in the village was carried out by labourers who went from door to door, collecting funds, sometimes aggressively, for their Christmas festivities.
		The hoodening tradition has since ended, but today is immortalized in some of the routines performed by Morris Dancers.
		The house in the trees on the village green was used as the 'Gluemans' house in Powell and Pressburger's wartime classic film A Canterbury Tale.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wickhambreaux (242 words)

	Hoodening Songs
		IF I WERE THE HOODENING KIND (MIDI file) Based on a Rugby song (If I were the marrying kind), to a tune similar to One Man went to Mow [Chorus] If I were the Hoodening kind - which thank the Lord I'm not, sir The kind of Hood'ner I would be, would be a...
		THE HOODENERS' SONG (MIDI file; based on The Ash Grove) If ye the horse do feed through the year you'll not need, so give us some cash and an ale or two please...
		The following section consists of three "traditional" songs which were actually used by St Nicholas Hoodeners at the turn of the century, and were kindly rediscovered for us by the preeminent modern researcher into Hoodening, George Frampton (pic).
	www.japanesetranslations.co.uk /hooden/hoodening-songs.htm (5838 words)

	Yule
		Hoodening is a practice that wasobserved in Kent and the Isle of Thanet on Christmas Eve...
		Hoodening consisted of carrying either the skull of areal horse or a wooden one from house to house on a pole.
		There were several reports in the 19thcentury of folks being extremely frightened by this, tho thosefrom the area seem to have been amused.
	www.ealdriht.org /yule.htm (1166 words)

	Stag - Deer
		The times associated with both the Hoodening and Horn Dance appear at the beginning of September which is when for many Deer the rutting season begins.
		This custom was recorded and condemned in England over a thousand years ago, which indicates that the origins of hoodening more than likely stretch back into the mists of time.
		* Mumming, Howling and Hoodening: Midwinter Rituals in Sussex, Kent and Surrey.
	www.druidry.org /obod/lore/animal/stag.html (5533 words)

	October 31st and more - Floetix - Art Community Redefined
		The Hooden Horse, a similar but more threatening counterpart of the Beltane 'Obby 'Oss, is another Samhain tradition.
		The Hooden Horse often accompanied the Soul-cakers, with its head made from the skull of a horse, its eyes from bottoms of glass bottles and a hinged lower jaw that could snap or bite.
		It was held by a man, draped in a blanket or a sheet, known as the 'Hoodener'.
	www.floetix.com /forums/showthread.php?t=41 (2696 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 2003 some of FVM went to Banbury to perform with their animals at the Banbury Beasts celebration, and were so inspired by the Whitstable Hoodeners that they made a hooden horse and began performing with it.
		The origins of hoodening (a mid winter tradition) lie in the dark past in East Kent, an area settled by the Jutes, who “may have” brought hoodening with them (or so some claim)
		It is still evolving as hoodening plays tend to do, and will be performed throughout the coming summer at fetes, days of dance and hopefully more festivals.
	www.upweyhistorygroup.freeserve.co.uk /fvm/pages/mumhood.htm (151 words)

	KENT RESOURCES: The Village of Wickhambreaux, Kent, England. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		One of the local public houses used to be the Hooden Horse which represents one of the characters in the local of "hoodening".
		This "hoodening" was practiced by farm labourers in December when they went from door to door to try to collect funds for an annual Christmas feast, often to the point of becoming quite threatening.
		The practice died out in most of Kent by the turn of this Century except in Thanet and Walmer where is survived for slightly longer but some of the characters such as the horse, the rider and "Molly" can be seen in current Morris Dancing.
	digiserve.com /peter/wick-v1.htm (307 words)

	The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction eBook
		In this order they proceed from house to house, singing carols and ringing their bells, and are generally remunerated for the amusement they occasion by a largess of money, or beer and cake.
		This ceremony is called “a hoodening.” The figure which we have described is designated “a hooden,” or wooden horse.
		The ceremony prevails in many parts of the Isle of Thanet, and may probably be traced as the relic of some religious ceremony practised in the early ages by our Saxon ancestors.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/12543/3.html (326 words)

	Hobby Horse Festival
		The town was treated to a fine display of hoodening by an antique horse from Kent and the Derby Tupp burst on the scene.
		There was also a performance of a specially written piece in the tradition of the 'Robin Hood' play to comment on the destruction of Banbury's Maypoles, by local puritan MP Sir Anthony Cope, in the sixteenth century.
		Hooden Horses from Kent, the fl one on the right is from Hoath and dates from 1906 © Rosy Burke
	www.hobbyhorsefestival.co.uk (2892 words)

	Robin Hood: The Green Dancers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The followers of this famous spirit went from house to house demanding money in return for a good crop and were seldom refused.
		An almost identical ceremony, enacted in Kent, was called 'Hoodening', the horse here known as 'The Hoden Horse'.
		The connection between these fairs, the Puck, Muck Olla, and the 'Hooded' Horse may be circumstantial, but cannot be entirely dismissed.
	www.druidry.org /obod/theorder/archive/jm-robin.html (594 words)

	Folk play
		Folk plays such as Hoodening, Guising, Mumming and Soul Caking are generally verse sketches performed in countryside pubs, private houses or the open air, at set times of the year such as the Winter or Summer solstices.
		Many have long traditions, although they are frequently updated to retain their relevance for modern audiences.
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	www.dcult.com /Weaving/Folk_play.php (104 words)

	Austen Family History - St. Nicholas at Wade, Kent
		Concerts are held in the church two or three times a year.
		Other village events include Open Gardens (beginning of June), the ancient tradition of Hoodening, and Father Christmas, who comes around in a pony-drawn sleigh on Christmas morning distributing presents.
		There used to be a torch-lit procession to the sea on Guy Fawkes' Night but this no longer takes place.
	www.austenfamily.org /St_Nicholas.html (225 words)

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