That's right, Marianne - a non-existent piece of fakeloric fantasising by which such noxious endeavours are first revived, re-invented, perpetuated and justified (excused) thereafter as being Traditional in the sort of terms you use above. Replace Tradition with fakeloric folk fashion and you're nearer the mark.

I love Morris Dancing, but it's not a Tradition - it's a re-invented minority hobbyist past-time like Folk Singing which comes complete with its own mythology and orthodoxy. I see blokes (and women) with blacked up faces and I realise why the BNP love folk so much.