United Kingdom - Ireland

Mar. 27 The crowd collects at the Church in Haxey and the fool pretends to be burned. Things are warming up now and the game will shortly begin. Haxey celebrates its 800 year old hood game? At the Lincolnshire 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 (illegible), 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. It has been played every year since. The Committee of the Hood is composed of the Lord, two chief Boggins and 9 lesser Boggins whose job it is to see fair play. The Hood is sewm up in a long cylinderical shaped leather case and teams representing all the local Inns in the Village fight for possession of it. The team which gers the hood to their pub first is the winner and that pub keeps the Hood in its posession until next year's game. This year's winner was the Duke William which game all the contestants free drinks after the Game. The action of the game closely resembles a rugger serum and began in a field ankle deep in mud. Only the youngest and fittest can survive the Haxey Hood game

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