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Pace Egg play, the Glossary

The Pace Egg plays are an Easter custom in rural Northern England in the tradition of the medieval mystery plays.^[1]

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Easter egg
English traditions
Saint George (martyr)

Anne Gilchrist (writer)

Anne Gilchrist (née Burrows; 25 February 182829 November 1885) was an English writer, best known for her connection to American poet Walt Whitman.

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Blackface and Morris dancing

Multiple theories exist about the origins of the theatrical practice of blackface as a caricature of black people.

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Border Morris

Border Morris is a collection of individual local dances from villages along the English side of the Wales–England border in the counties of Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Shropshire.

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Bury, Greater Manchester

Bury is a market town on the River Irwell in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester, England.

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Casterton, Cumbria

Casterton is a small village and civil parish close to Kirkby Lonsdale on the River Lune in the south east corner of Cumbria, England.

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Easter, also called Pascha (Aramaic, Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary.

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Egg dance

An egg dance is a traditional Easter game in which eggs are laid on the ground or floor, and the goal is to dance among them, damaging as few as possible. Pace Egg play and egg dance are Easter egg.

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Egg decorating

Egg decorating is the art or craft of decorating eggs.

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Folk music

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

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Fool (stock character)

The fool is a stock character in creative works (literature, film, etc.) and folklore.

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Good Friday

Good Friday is a Christian holy day observing the crucifixion of Jesus and his death at Calvary.

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Heptonstall

Heptonstall is a small village and civil parish within the Calderdale borough of West Yorkshire, England, historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire.

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Hunton, North Yorkshire

Hunton is a village and civil parish about south of Catterick Garrison and north west of Bedale, in North Yorkshire, England.

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James Madison Carpenter

James Madison Carpenter, born in 1888 in Blacklands, Mississippi, near Booneville, in Prentiss County, was a Methodist minister and scholar of American and British folklore.

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Kirkby Lonsdale

Kirkby Lonsdale is a town and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England, on the River Lune.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs) is a ceremonial county in North West England.

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List of folk songs by Roud number

This is a list of songs by their Roud Folk Song Index number; the full catalogue can also be found on the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library website.

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Middleton, Greater Manchester

Middleton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, on the River Irk.

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Midgley

Midgley is a hill-top village in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England.

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Mock combat

Mock combat involves the execution of combative actions without intent to harm.

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Mummers' play

Mummers' plays are folk plays performed by troupes of amateur actors, traditionally all male, known as mummers or guisers (also by local names such as rhymers, pace-eggers, soulers, tipteerers, wrenboys, and galoshins). Pace Egg play and Mummers' play are English traditions.

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Mystery play

Mystery plays and miracle plays (they are distinguished as two different forms although the terms are often used interchangeably) are among the earliest formally developed plays in medieval Europe.

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Northern England

Northern England, or the North of England, is a region that forms the northern part of England and mainly corresponds to the historic counties of Cheshire, Cumberland, Durham, Lancashire, Northumberland, Westmorland and Yorkshire.

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Northumberland

Northumberland is a ceremonial county in North East England, bordering Scotland.

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Onion

An onion (Allium cepa L., from Latin cepa meaning "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium.

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Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house.

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Percy Grainger

Percy Aldridge Grainger (born George Percy Grainger; 8 July 188220 February 1961) was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist who moved to the United States in 1914 and became an American citizen in 1918.

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Quackery

Quackery, often synonymous with health fraud, is the promotion of fraudulent or ignorant medical practices.

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Roud Folk Song Index

The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of around 250,000 references to nearly 25,000 songs collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world.

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Saint George

Saint George (Geṓrgios;Geʽez: ጊዮርጊስ, Geōrgius, გიორგი, Ge'orgiyos, Mar Giwargis, translit died 23 April 303), also George of Lydda, was an early Christian martyr who is venerated as a saint in Christianity. Pace Egg play and saint George are saint George (martyr).

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Saint George's Day in England

Saint George is the patron saint of England in a tradition established in the Tudor period, based in the saint's popularity during the times of the Crusades and the Hundred Years' War. Pace Egg play and saint George's Day in England are English traditions.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pace_Egg_play

Also known as Pace Egg plays, Paste egg.

Pace Egg play, the Glossary

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See also

Easter egg

English traditions

Saint George (martyr)

References