Talk:'Obby 'Oss festival

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More Info[edit]

Ok as per our project mission its time to add more information to this article. lets start with a run down on its history. see if anyone can find how old this festival is or at least a pretty good estimate. add more ref links as well and see if we can get a number on howmany ppl attend this festival. it appears to be the whole town that participates so see if we can also get some info on that town. Good luck everyone =) Maverick423 20:21, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just a point of interest, there are a few versions of the Padstow song, though most feature St. George, and I've heard it suggested this is a reference to the Norman Conquest, and the expectation that the Norse, etc, would come to the aid of the natives. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.95.23.59 (talk) 01:56, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The version I included is referred to as the 'current version'. There are other versions of the song and I have them. However they are a bit 'anti-French' so I didn't include them! I can't find any references to the Norse though. The book I have claims that the earliest written reference to a hobby horse is in the Cornish drama 'Bewans Meriasek' written in 1502. -- Maelor 20:52, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Horse[edit]

I don't think it is as obvious as you think that this is a horse- a hobby horse. The lead paragraph talks of the festival, but not the obby oss that the festival is about.

IceDragon64 (talk) 22:16, 17 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Jean Ritchie[edit]

George Pickow: "When Alan Lomax, then working out of London for the BBC, and his collaborator Peter Kennedy of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, decided to document the unique May Eve and May Day Festivals at Padstow in Cornwall, they selected Pickow to be their cameraman. The result was the 16-minute color film Oss Oss Wee Oss (1953). "; see Jean Ritchie.--Johnsoniensis (talk) 04:31, 5 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]