One of the sides I play for is called Anonymous Morris - there is a website and various recordings from folk festivals are around.
One dance is called Smuggling, which is an adaption of one called Poaching.
Many of the dances feature a lot of clashing of sticks.
One dance is named clockwork badger, and is the result of a workshop with some Portuguese boy scouts who did a demonstration of staff fighting exercises over on Brownsea Island which is where the first scout camp was held. It is an island in Poole Harbour.
I presume to dictate to no man what he shall eat or drink or wherewithal he shall be clothed."
-- The Hon. Stuart Ruaidri Erskine, The Kilt & How to Wear It, 1901.
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