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Latest revision as of 01:09, 27 December 2012
1st May - The festival starts at midnight in the early hours of Mayday.
The actual Hobby Horse is a hoop covered with black material with an African mask, and a horses head with snapping jaws.
A man stands inside the hoop and the procession parades around the town. The festival has ancient origins.
According to legend, Saint Petroc tamed a dragon at Padstow by placing a girdle about its neck.
He then led it down to the seashore and set it free to swim away and never return to bother the townsfolk again.