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The Whittlesea Straw Bear

author: Jamie : Peterborough, UK

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In the Cambridgeshire market town of Whittlesey or Whittlesea as it is traditionally named, from when no one quite knows, it was the custom on the Tuesday following Plough Monday (the 1st Monday after Twelfth Night) to dress one of the confraternity of the plough in straw and call him a 'Straw Bear'. A newspaper of 1882 reports that "... he was then taken around the town to entertain by his frantic and clumsy gestures the good folk who had on the previous day subscribed to the rustics, a spread of beer, tobacco and beef". The bear was described as having...

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