Whittlesey, UK Two of the three Straw Bears pause during the annual Straw Bear Festival parade. The traditional event was revived in 1980 and features a Straw Bear and its children being led through the village near Peterborough. The bear dances, while musicians break off into groups around the village square to perform with Morris, Molly, Sword, Mummer and Appalachian dancing ‘sides’ or teams

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