Smoking the Fool
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Smoking the Fool
Image: © Richard Croft Taken: 6 Jan 2007
A defining moment in the Fool's Speech in the preamble to the Haxey Hood - damp straw is burned behind the fool as he makes his speech. In centuries gone by, the fool was hung from a tree and smoked !
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Image Location
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