Found this in the latest issue of Pagan Dawn: "Soul Caking" or "Souling" - people still perfom traditional mummer's plays and morris dances around All Soul's Day. Part of it involves the entrance of "The Wild Horse" which leaps around the crowd snapping his jaws and frightening passers-by. The head is actually a painted horse's skull."
They're in Antrobus (http://www.answers.com/topic/antrobus-soul-cakers), Comberbatch and Great Budworth, amongst others: http://tdrg.group.shef.ac.uk/Gallery/Cheshire_Souling_2002.htm
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Found this in the latest issue of Pagan Dawn: "Soul Caking" or "Souling" - people still perfom traditional mummer's plays and morris dances around All Soul's Day. Part of it involves the entrance of "The Wild Horse" which leaps around the crowd snapping his jaws and frightening passers-by. The head is actually a painted horse's skull."
They're in Antrobus (http://www.answers.com/topic/antrobus-soul-cakers), Comberbatch and Great Budworth, amongst others:
http://tdrg.group.shef.ac.uk/Gallery/Cheshire_Souling_2002.htm