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Kernow: Children’s Celebration Ban Stokes Controversy
NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE
A storm of protest erupted following a report in the Cornish Guardian newspaper concerning a school’s refusal to allow Cornish children the right to attend Padstow’s ancient ‘Obby Oss’ celebration.
The centuries’ old tradition occurs on 1st May annually and involves music and dancing through the streets and Cornish folklorists believe it to be a celebration of an ancient pagan fertility ritual which heralds the arrival of spring.