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Thread #69120   Message #1180682
Posted By: davidkiddnet
07-May-04 - 06:42 PM
Thread Name: Origin of Morris Dancing
Subject: RE: Origin of Morris Dancing
Morris Girls
As for the fertility aspect of Morris, In our team the hobby-horse was a woodpecker-costume we called the Yeckle. The Silurian Morris Men joked that it was a fertility symbol because everyone who had housed the Yeckle had gained unexpected babies. I thought they were just joking about its four-foot long beak. But when I volunteered to repair it I found that it had been housed for some years by the boys-school teacher who appeared arguably on the gay side. And the consequence was: we had an unplanned daughter within a year.
When I had to move away from Ledbury only the arguably gay boys-school teacher would take the Yeckle back.
Frances is a delightful calm girl who won the baby competition at the county fair, and is now grown up full of talent and smarts.