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Originally Posted by arista

Did LT - not post this?

#As well

You should be thankful that people don't talk down to you every time you open a new thread.

As for the Morris Dancers, I've heard of this sort of thing go on before towards Morris Dancers.

Every Easter Saturday, members perform dances for ten hours from one side of the town to the other in a tradition known as “Beating the Bounds”. The dance, which marks the return of spring, is believed to trace its roots to Moorish pirates who settled in Cornwall and became employed in local mining.

As more mines and quarries opened in Lancashire in the 18th and 19th centuries, a few Cornishmen are said to have headed to the area, taking with them mining expertise and the costume of red and white kilts, breeches, bonnets and blackened faces. Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/poli...tradition.html

So the blackened face is to do with piracy and mining and nothing to do with trying to look like a black person.