Padstow Obby Oss 2019

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Capturing Cornwall

Күн бұрын

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@D-777i 5 жыл бұрын

So great to see some of these ancient customs still being actively preserved, sadly not many left now.

@bens-bs4ng 8 ай бұрын

Sid Porter, Chingy and Chunky still looking like proper characters. Great footage. It was really nice down there this year too. Seen loads of people I haven't seen in years. Great day.

@stover14 3 жыл бұрын

This is honestly one of the coolest things I've seen on KZbin.

@brendaflower7790 2 жыл бұрын

Lovely, May day tradition along with all our other Pagan traditions should never die .

@Wotsitorlabart Жыл бұрын

What 'pagan' traditions?

@sarah-janelambert8962 9 ай бұрын

@@Wotsitorlabart The Padstow Obby Oss tradition is widely held to be a survival of the Celtic celebrations at the spring equinox; May Day, welcoming back the sun and the growing season. This is why the village men gather greenery from the surrouding woods and bring it into the vilage streets. There is also a barely disguised sexual element as young women are caught under the skirt of the 'oss. It is said that if this happens, she will be pregnant within the year.

@Wotsitorlabart 9 ай бұрын

@@sarah-janelambert8962 The Padstow Obby Oss is not a 'Celtic' tradition at all. What is occuring is a May Garland and Song custom as formerly found throughout England (bringing in the 'May' ie greenery to decorate the town, setting up the maypole, singing a special May song, collecting money). And grafted onto this is a hobby horse custom that normally would occur at Christmas. There are many hobby horse customs across England and Wales - the Hooden Horse, the Broad, the Poor Old Horse, the Mari Lwyd, the Old Tup - and they occur at Christmas or New Year. And it may be relevant that at Christmas in the early 1800's further down the coast the guize dancers of Penzance would carry with them a hobby horse. It's interesting that although the hobby horse is a medieval invention the earliest references to all the above (and the Padstow Obby Oss) are no earlier than about 1800.

@Wotsitorlabart 9 ай бұрын

@@sarah-janelambert8962 And Steve Roud in his guide to the customs and festivals of England 'The English Year' points out that there are no English customs that can be proven to be pre-Christian in origin.

@sarah-janelambert8962 9 ай бұрын

@@Wotsitorlabart The Lyrics of the Padstow May Day song specifically refers to '"the merry morning of May" ie, not greenery (although that is brought into the town as part of the festivities), but the actual chronological date: May Day, or Beltane.

@mulletmanpete 5 жыл бұрын

Looking dapper there Sergeant Eddy

@padstowmade 3 жыл бұрын

Yes he does

@jamiewatterson69 5 жыл бұрын

This is so cool

@kernowkidcornwallisacountr9657 5 жыл бұрын

KERNOW BYS VYKEN ONEN HAG OLL . THEY CAN'T STOP US!!

@timhague882 4 жыл бұрын

Should have been there this year :(

@TheRightHonourableMattyMcHoon Жыл бұрын

There was some characters about that year lol

@MrChivers123 4 жыл бұрын

Proper British people enjoying themselves. Surprised Rick Bloody Stein hasn’t bought the performing rights, though...

@gemboundprism6322 3 жыл бұрын

British?

@Wotsitorlabart 2 жыл бұрын

@@gemboundprism6322 English.

@morganetches3749 8 ай бұрын

@@WotsitorlabartCornish

@Wotsitorlabart 8 ай бұрын

@@morganetches3749 Which has been an English county for 1000 years. The people of the West Riding of Yorkshire have a DNA quite distinct from any other in Britain. But we don't pretend we are still living in the 5th century Kingdom of Elmet.

@morganetches3749 8 ай бұрын

@@Wotsitorlabart I’ve definitely met Yorkshiremen who claim they’re from a separate country!

@lennylaa1686 2 жыл бұрын

Dancing Blond lady in red seems to acting as a steward but sadly, a woman died when her head was struck by the round table.

@fedyno4reviews 4 жыл бұрын

It looks like they really didn't want to be filmed 😂 this is a cool video but should leave these people to it and not be so invasive.

@CapturingCornwall 4 жыл бұрын

Filming this was very difficult. You're either pushed to the side or in the action. In fairness it's much safer for me to be in the action as i can move quickly out of the way whereas in the crowd i can injure people trying to push me around.

@davideddy2672 3 жыл бұрын

@@CapturingCornwall - It was invasive, you were asked to back off several times as I recall?

@CapturingCornwall 3 жыл бұрын

Where am I going to back off to? There's nowhere to go apart from stay in the open. The worst place for me to stay is in a crowd of people as they can bump into me.

@cornishseaangler7687 3 жыл бұрын

I dint appreciate having a camera rammed in my face bud Would've been nice if you just asked

@daveenglish2 2 жыл бұрын

@@cornishseaangler7687 @ So, you would have been happier if he just asked if he could ram a camera in your face, bud ?

@greendiesel6869 4 жыл бұрын

OSS OSS KERNOW BYS VYKEN OSS OSS .. YAAAAAAWWWWWWIOOOOO

@sarah-janelambert8962 9 ай бұрын

If you don't think this has roots in Pagan pre-Christian tradition, you need to lie down. There is someone below who really does think there is no such thing as Pagan festivals and presumably attributes all this to Christianity. Similarly with the undoubtedly Christian Easter Egg and Easter Bunny (Really the sacred hare who was thought to lay eggs at Easter and is the sacred animal of the Celtic goddess Oestre). Show me where those two are in the Bible. And yet Christians blatantly misappropriated the festival as Easter. Adopting Pagan festivals and changing them is a sly trick they used to establish their new religion.

@YorkyOne 3 ай бұрын

'Eostre' is supposed to be an Anglo-Saxon goddess not 'Celtic' but there's little evidence of such a deity (literally one line comment by Bede). The Easter 'bunny' is 16th century German. The linking of the hare to Eostre is a modern neo-pagan creation. The link is actually to 'Ostara' the supposed German equivalent of Eostre. Ostara was a creation of the fertile imagination of Jacob Grimm in the early 1860's. The hare link was added in the late 1800's to give Ostara a back story.

@YorkyOne 3 ай бұрын

The timing of Easter is because in the Bible the Crucifixion specifically took place during the Jewish Passover festival and therefore in early Spring. In most of the none English speaking world variations on the word Pasch is used rather than 'Easter'. Nothing to do with pagan festivals. Eggs have become linked to Easter because they are readily available in spring. As well as being a source of protein following Lent they were given as gifts.

@sarah-janelambert8962 2 ай бұрын

@@YorkyOne The timing of Easter is determined by the ecclesiastical approximation of the March equinox. The Council of Nicaea in 325 AD established that Easter would be celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the vernal equinox, which aligns with both Jewish and pagan traditions. Sounds pretty Pagan to me.

@YorkyOne 2 ай бұрын

@@sarah-janelambert8962 Are you now saying that because the Council of Nicaea came up with a formula for calculating Easter based upon the lunar phases and the spring equinox that this is proof of a pagan origin for Easter? Are they the preserve of paganism? Aren't they part of the nuts and bolts of the modern calender? The point of the Council was to separate Easter from the Jewish Passover and in the process create a commonly acknowledged date for the Feast of the Resurrection. If you really want to know how these calculations came about then you need to read 'The Oxford Companion To The Year - An exploration of calendar customs and time reckoning' and the chapters on 'The Date of Easter' and 'Comptus' (calender calculation - especially for determining Easter). But be prepared to be disappointed - paganism is barely mentioned.

@sarah-janelambert8962 2 ай бұрын

@@YorkyOne The cycles of the year in terms of solstices and equinoxes are nowhere mentioned in the Bible so why use them to calculate Easter? Why not just determine a date and have done with it? “Read "The intellectual debate between Christians and pagans” in The Cambridge History of Christianity: It explores the intellectual exchanges between Christians and pagans, noting that early Christians often engaged with and adapted pagan philosophical and religious ideas to articulate their own beliefs.