HKA-001728Folk Custom
The Minehead Hobby Horse
The decorated hobby-horse procession associated with May celebrations in Minehead.
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Somerset
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HKA-001699Legend
The Glastonbury Thorn at Christmas
The Glastonbury Thorn's Christmas flowering tradition and its relationship to local legend.
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The Glastonbury Thorn and Joseph of Arimathea
A later Christian legend associated the Glastonbury Thorn in Somerset with Joseph of Arimathea. In the story, Joseph reached Glastonbury and planted his staff in the ground, where it took root and became a…
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