By the way,I find nothing in the Pete Millington aryicle to support the robust stand taken by Maloclm Douglas and GUEST against the old-pagan-custom school (in which group I would put myself). Pete Millington's attention is more or less axclusively directed at the origins of the Hero Combat in its present form(rhyming couplets, specific characters etc). He has little or nothing to say about the remarkably widespread other forms of Death and Resurrection/Combat performances,whose existence is what leads the rest of us to believe that we have here a practise of very long standing indeed.