Haxey Hood game, Haxey, Lincolnshire

A preliminary to the start of the game is the singing of country songs by the Fool, Walter Skelton, while he has his face blackened, in the bar of the King's Arms. Haxey celebrates its 600 year old hood game - At the Lincolnshire village of Haxey local people and visitors watched or took part in the 600-year-old Haxey Hood game, said to have originated in a whim of a lady of the manor, who, when local yeomen had recovered he silk hood after a long chase in the wind, promised each of them land if they could invent a similar game to be played on every January 6th. lt has been played every year since. The Committee of the Hood is composed of the Lora, two chief Boggins and 9 lesser Boggins whose job it is to see fair play. The Herd is sewn up in a Icing cylindrical shaped leather case and teams representing all the local Inns in the Village fight for possession of it. The team which gets the hood to their pub first is the winner and that pub keeps the Hood in its possession until next year's game. This year's winner is The Duke William who gave all the contestants free drinks after the Bsaix Game. The action of the game closely resembles a rugger scrum and began in a field ankle deep in mud. Only the youngest and fittest can survive the

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