The Cornish have preserved many of their rituals and traditions while others have let them fall by the wayside.
Community life still exists in Cornwall and it is buttressed by the annual events that bring people onto the streets and into each other's lives when otherwise work and family might keep them blithely intoverted. Some of the events we class as sports - see the Hurling and the gig racing elsewhere - others are feasts, linked to the saints' days of various towns like St Just and St Day.
The most famous saints day is that of St Piran, the patron saint of tinners and popular replacement for St Michael as patron saint of Cornwall, on March 5.
Other annual events are legion. Few outside this little part of Cornwall are aware of the 'trigging' when limpets and winkles are picked on the shores of the Helford River. Elsewhere Camborne has its Trevithick Day and Redruth its Murdoch Day, Padstow its Obby Oss and Helston its Flora Day.
We have selected a few of the bigger ones for these pages.
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Traditional Midnight Singing with the Obby Oss Choir, the town reverberating to the call to all Padstonians 'Unite and Unite and let us all Unite' The 1st of May sees Padstow decorated with the first greenery of the year, bluebells, cowslips,forget-me-nots, the catkins of hazel and sycamore twigs heavy with the first leaves of Spring , and the procession of the Padstow Obby Oss, teaser and the dancers, singers and the unique 'May Song' , and musicians playing a hypnotic tune. Accordians, drums, triangles. The followers dressed in white with red or blue sashes coming before the Oss , all to celebrate the coming of Spring. |
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