Antrobus Soul-Cakers.
One of the very few surviving
mumming
play teams which have a claim to be traditional, the Soul-Cakers perform their souling play every year at
Halloween
and the following two weeks, around the vicinity of the village of Antrobus (Cheshire). As is usual with this type of play, the basic action is that King George and the Black Prince fight, and the latter is killed and brought back to life by a Doctor, and the last characters to enter are the Wild Horse (Dick) and his Driver. The Wild Horse is made up of a real horse's skull, painted black, mounted on ...