From: A Brady
Subject: The Langsett Fox Dance
Date: Sat, 02 Nov 1996

I was just browsing the Fox Box - great site, by the way - and I thought you might like to hear about the Langsett Fox Dance. This takes place every year at a village in Yorkshire, England. Langsett has a few houses, a lot of sheep, a reservoir that serves the Sheffield area, and a pub called the Waggon and Horses. The Fox Dance takes place on the night of the first full moon in October (you just missed it - sorry!) and resembles the other English traditional (ie Morris, Molly, or Border) dances; except that the dancers wear fox masks, dance at night, and carry fire torches instead of wussy handkerchiefs. The members of the team stay anonymous, or at least try to. And I'm not about to change that.

Badger