Lincolnshire - unlocalized festivals

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By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-06-25. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-10-18.

Record

[1856 or earlier:]
Plough-boys.—Countrymen, who go about dressed in ribbon, &c., as Morris (Moorish) dancers on Plough Monday, perform the sword-dance, &c. One is dressed as "Maid Marion," and is called the witch, another in rags, and is called the fool, &c. &c.[1]

IRHB comments

This entry occurs in a list of provincialisms. The use of the present tense suggests a then extant tradition.

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