An actor from The Bankside Mummers group announces the arrival of the The Holly Man – the winter guise of the Green Man, a character from pagan myth – near the Globe Theatre in London to celebrate Twelfth Night.
In the traditional agricultural calendar Twelfth Night marks a last chance for festive fun before returning to work on Plough Monday.
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