Note 1214 — Chapter X · THE CULT OF THE HORSE
Reading edition
P. Maylam, “The Hooden Horse,” an East Kent Christmas Custom, 1909, pp. 72-91, 110-20. Athenaeum, Feb. 19, 1910, p. 214. In Folk-Lore, XXI. 1910, pp. 248-9, it is argued that the “hoodening horse” dates, at least, earlier than the Robin Hood period. Cf. W. Henderson, Folk-Lore of the N. Counties, 2nd edition, 1879, pp. 70-1.