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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.
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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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