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Les in Chorlton Bacup Nuters and Racism (154* d) RE: Bacup Nuters and Racism 23 Apr 14

One of the problems that lingers around folk and traditional customs, apart from the difficulty and agreeing what these words mean, is that people say all kinds of things with out offering any evidence.

Many Morris sides still perpetuate the ideas that Morris is somehow related to a fertility and / or a pagan past. I have never been offered evidence that this is so.

The BCND seem to have sprung to life in the 19C at a time when carnivals, fetes and music hall performances often featured Blackface Minstresly an influence from the US. Border Morris shows those links.

Are the stout defenders of the BCND prepared to explore possible links between BCND and Blackface Minstresly?

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