Showing posts with label burning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label burning. Show all posts
Friday, July 25, 2014
The Holly Boy
There used to be an old custom in some parts of England of the ‘Holly-Boy’, wherein the boys in the village built an effigy of holly known as the ‘Holly-Boy’. It was stolen by the young girls in the village and then burned.
Here is my fantastical and macabre interpretation of the folk tradition
Labels:
art,
battle of the sexes,
burning,
custom,
effigy,
England,
folk tradition,
history,
holly boy,
painting
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