Footage of this year's #Hoodening and #Wassail Orchard Walk in Sandwich. Big thanks to everyone who came along. See you next January!

Horses for courses - a looong procession this year for the Sandwich #wassail, with various #hoodening beasts and others.

Post #DistanceDrift treat - trying out a shiny new cafe. Especially welcome after packing up last night's #hoodening and #wassail event!

James Frost, wearing a cap and waistcoat decorated with many badges, standing in Maidstone Museum near the hooden horse 'Black Beauty', during the hoodening and animal guising exhibition.

Here's another online opportunity for non-locals to learn something about the #EastKent #calendarcustom of #hoodening, courtesy of @folkloresociety.bsky.social

Date/time: 16 Dec 2025, 19:00 (suits those in USA too, q.v. www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/c...)

www.folklore-society.com/event/the-ho...

A poster showing a monochrome sketch of a hooden horse, with the winter 2025/26 performances of The Whitstable Hoodeners: Herne/Herne Bay (Fri 5 Dec The Bouncing Barrel, Fri 19 Dec Good's Brewery), Whitstable (Mon 22 Dec The Fountain, The Old Neptune, Mon 29 Dec Whitstable Folk Club), and Faversham (Wed 7 Jan). Start times vary 19:00 to 20.30.

Various other teams are also #hoodening around #Thanet & environs this winter season: see image/ALT for the Whitstable schedule. They'll do both #Whitstable and #Swale plays (see if you can spot the difference...).

Thanks for joining today's #DistanceDrift. Back to the finale of yesterday's #hoodening and #wassail to tidy up. Happy New Year - see you in February!

The herd kept growing! #wassail #hoodening

And we're off! #hoodening rabble and friends on our way to the first venue of today's tour and wassailing in Sandwich

#Hoodening and #Wassail in Kent tomorrow (Saturday) with pop-up exhibition,Trudgepig's hoodening tour, on the hoof orchard wassailing (bring a noisemaker), hot mulled cider and capers with Bower Street Morris. Wrap up warm and join us! #folklore #folk #customs

The Dead of Winter by Sarah Clegg - Episode 3: Horse Skulls and Hoodenings - BBC Sounds Haunting ‘Hoodenings’ and horrible happenings with horses’ heads. And people.

If you're in the UK (or have a suitable VPN), this is worth a listen (15 min, largely if not totally accurate): #MariLwyd #YFariLwyd #HoodenHorses #Hoodening #Habergeiß #Turoń #Corlata #Nuuttipukki #Schimmelreiter #guising #folkbeasts #morrisbeasts www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... ...

The Hoodeners with a rare appearance of *three* hooden horses (quite a few years back)

First night of the #EastKent #Thanet #hoodening season: St Nick village hall 7.30ish, Tartar Frigate #Broadstairs 9.30ish. New horse (i.e. the two-legged bit)! Expect us to be as 'word perfick' as usual. ;-)

Help raise £1000 to help our Hooden Horse support SERV Kent, the Blood-Runners. Iʼm raising money to help our Hooden Horse support SERV Kent, the Blood-Runners.. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

Our 2024 charity is SERV Kent, who carry urgent blood supplies across #EastKent, at their own expense.

We aim to cover the costs of 2 bikes for next year. Please donate at www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding... (we'll have a QR code at our #hoodening performances), or throw some notes in the nosebag. 🐴

An image of so-called 'Diesel Clappers' from the Museum of Roadside Magic. (c) Libby Bove Arts. Chapeau, Libby - too convincing by half!

Another, hitherto unknown, horse guising tradition, with a unique head design? The caption mentions Priddy Folk Festival 1932, and a 'custom where players entertain petrol pump patrons with raucous, improved entertainment, tracing back to the #hoodening practices of West [sic] Kent'. 😕 qv ALT