'Oss 'Oss Wee 'Oss

Duration: 20

Year Published: 1959

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Shows how the people of Padstow, Cornwall, celebrate the coming of spring with rites that start at the stroke of midnight on May 1 and last almost 24 hours. Features a strange dance during which a horse dies and is resurrected. The dance is the modern remnant of ancient springtime rites in which primitive man rejoiced in the revived fertility of the land.

Complete Record: Shows how the people of Padstow, Cornwall, celebrate the coming of spring with rites that start at the stroke of midnight on May 1 and last almost 24 hours. Features a strange dance during which a horse dies and is resurrected. The dance is the modern remnant of ancient springtime rites in which primitive man rejoiced in the revived fertility of the land., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

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