Black Dog Molly, a traditional dance group, performing at an event in Cheshire, UK.

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Molly bands today recreate the traditional East Anglian (Fen) groups of plough boys and other agricultural workers, who danced in January outside mansions, begging for money during winter - a time of unemployment. They would threaten to plough up the lord's lawns if money was not given. So the dancers disguised themselves with blackened faces

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Size: 3968px × 2232px
Location: Rode Hall Farmers Market, Scholar Green, Cheshire, England, Great Britain (GB), United Kingdom (UK)
Photo credit: © Alec Scaresbrook / Alamy / Afripics
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