The customs observed on Plough Monday varied by region, but a common feature to a lesser or greater extent was for a plough (known variously as the "fond plough", "fool plough", "stot plough", or "white plough" [12]) to be hauled from house to house in a procession, collecting money.

The ploughmen dress in character and go through their village dragging the plough and acting the fool, a custom still practiced in Goathland, North Yorkshire (2000). Details Category:

The ploughmen dress in character and go through their village dragging the plough and acting the fool, a custom still practiced in Goathland, North Yorkshire (2000). Explore museums and play...

Dec 27, 2024 · With disguises, trick-or-treating, and inebriated revelry, Plough Monday seems like the Christmas season’s answer to Halloween. Imagine you’re hanging out at home somewhere in Yorkshire, 1814. You hear a knock and open the door to find a motley procession .

Jan 8, 2024 · Also known as Fool Plough or Fond Plough, Plough Monday was observed in England up through the late 1800s with music, dancing, processions, mumming and other forms of ritualized begging. Plough Monday procession Illustration published 1863.

On Plough Monday, a “fool plough” or “white plough” was dragged about the village by young ploughmen covered in ribbons and other gay ornaments; they asked for pennies at every door and, if refused, they ploughed the ground before the cottage.

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What does the noun fool plough mean? There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun fool plough . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.

Jan 13, 2025 · Leven Sword will be performing the traditional Cleveland Fool Plough Play in The Royal Oak, Great Ayton at 9:00pm on Plough Monday (13th January). The play is recorded in J. Horsfall Turner’s ‘Yorkshire Anthology, Ballads and Songs, Ancient and Modern’ published in …

Agriculture workers would be back on the fields, yet their families would take an old plough, known as the Fool Plough, door to door and collect money, either for a charitable cause, or to buy the workers a drink that evening. This could be accompanied by a …