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Big Al Whittle | blacked up morris dancers abused in uk (323* d) | RE: blacked up morris dancers abused in uk | 09 Jan 17 |
A L Lloyd advanced the idea in Folksong in England was that it was about the spirits riches of the earth. the black faces of miners, black imps...the dance as a fertility ritual for the mineral riches of the earth - and how they are mined in darkness by men with black faces, who are friends to the darkness. |