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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