Ceremony performed every September in the Staffordshire village of Abbots Bromley. The dancers wear reindeer antlers (one pair has been carbon-dated to around AD 1000), and they mime the fighting of stags. It is believed to be the oldest surviving folk festival in Britain, but its origins and purpose are unknown. Equally mysterious is how the horns reached Staffordshire, where reindeer were extinct long before 1000.
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