FLORA DAY REVELS IN CORNISH TOWN. —The “furry dance,” a relic of the Baal worship of the Phoenicians, is still danced as an annual festival in Helston, Cornwall, and visitors from all parts of England come to see, and take part in, the historic dance. Men in silk hats and frock coats, dance with fashionably-clad women behind the big drum, which leads them through the streets, and in and out of shops and houses.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIX, Issue 7493, 18 June 1934, Page 5
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74FLORA DAY REVELS IN CORNISH TOWN.—The “furry dance,” a relic of the Baal worship of the Phoenicians, is still danced as an annual festival in Helston, Cornwall, and visitors from all parts of England come to see, and take part in, the historic dance. Men in silk hats and frock coats, dance with fashionably-clad women behind the big drum, which leads them through the streets, and in and out of shops and houses. Manawatu Times, Volume LIX, Issue 7493, 18 June 1934, Page 5
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