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Re: Tangent: Sardinian 'bear men'
Jul 02, 2008, 22:44
Spaceship mark wrote:
...the name itself being a corruption of 'Moorish' in that the dances were originally an imitation of the dances of the Moors. Possibly hence the tradition (largely extinct) of blacking up....


I saw these guys in Chorley a year or so ago, good they were too.
http://www.stonethecrows.org.uk/

http://www.howlingdog.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/crows/crows_why_we_black_up.htm
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