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Encyclopedia Britannica



HODENING

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 556 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HIG-HOR
HODENING , an ancient Christmas custom still surviving in Wales, Kent, Lancashire and elsewhere. A
horse
 's skull or a wooden imitation on a
pole
  is carried round by a party of youths, one of whom conceals himself under a
white
 
cloth
  to simulate the
horse
 's
body
 , holding a lighted candle in the skull. They make a
house
 -to-
house
  visitation, begging gratuities. The " Penitential " of Archbishop
Theodore
  (d. 69o) speaks of " any who, on the kalands of January, clothe themselves with the skins of cattle and carry heads of animals." This, coupled with the fact that among the primitive Scandinavians the horse was often the sacrifice made at the winter solstice to Odin for success in battle, has been thought to justify the theory that hodening is a corruption of Odining.


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