The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #3527   Message #18141
Posted By: Bruce O.
22-Dec-97 - 10:16 PM
Thread Name: Hal An Tow: notes?
Subject: RE: Hal An Tow: notes?
Susan you are correct. Alan, Brody, 'The English Mummers and Their Plays', p. 26, 1969, calls the horns a symbol of fertility in the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance. A picture is also given of 7 dancers wearing their (deer) antlers.