{"id":609,"date":"2006-02-05T23:36:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-05T23:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=609"},"modified":"2006-02-05T23:36:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-05T23:36:00","slug":"oss-oss-wee-oss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=609","title":{"rendered":"Oss Oss, Wee Oss!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several clips from a 1953 filming of the Padstow<\/a>, Cornwall, May Day “hobby horse” procession are available on the Web. The film was made by Peter Kennedy, George Pickow, and Alan Lomax, an American folklorist.<\/p>\n

Some .wmv selections are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But the best clip is here<\/a>, especially for its slightly eerie, archetypal ending, which some people say prefigures The Seventh Seal<\/em><\/a>. UPDATE:<\/b> This last link no longer works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several clips from a 1953 filming of the Padstow, Cornwall, May Day “hobby horse” procession are available on the Web. The film was made by Peter Kennedy, George Pickow, and Alan Lomax, an American folklorist. Some .wmv selections are here. But the best clip is here, especially for its slightly eerie, archetypal ending, which some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,37,36],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-england","tag-folklore","tag-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-9P","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":908,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=908","url_meta":{"origin":609,"position":0},"title":"Oss Tales: Creating the Archaic","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"July 20, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"To watch Oss Tales is to see the difference between a community and a network and the contrast between self-conscious ritual and tradition.If you are interested in the construction of ritual and of community--and in the history of the Pagan movement--you should buy the DVD, which contains three short films:1.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Beltane\"","block_context":{"text":"Beltane","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=beltane"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":893,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=893","url_meta":{"origin":609,"position":1},"title":"The Wee ‘Oss in Cornwall and California","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"June 15, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Folklorist Alan Lomax's 1953 film of the Padstow, Cornwall, May Day festival, Oss Oss, Wee Oss! is now available on DVD, together with the Pagan hobby horse procession from Berkeley, California, and an updated film from Padstow in 2007.Order before July 3 for free shipping.You can also see small video\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"England\"","block_context":{"text":"England","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=england"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11623,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11623","url_meta":{"origin":609,"position":2},"title":"The “Paganism, Art, and Fashion” Issue of The Pomegranate","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"August 4, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"A new issue of The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies devoted to Paganism, art, and fashion has been published online (print to follow) and is currently available as \"open acess,\" in other words, free downloads. It is guest-edited by Caroline Tully (University of Melbourne), who writes in her\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"art\"","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=art"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Figure-1-Gareth-Pugh-.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}