Is this area near Padstow? Is this blackening up tradition separate from that of Padstow? Do these people still blacken up? Were these molly/morris performers singing minstrel songs? Do they still sing these types of songs Are these songs different than those that used to be sung or are still sung in Padstow?

Clee Hill "niggering" is several hundred miles and a hundred years away from present day Padstow. The Clee Hill tradition was not singing but molly/morris DANCING. The similarities are that both customs occurr(ed) in the depths of winter, and both use(d) face blackening.