#FestiveTraditions at #Hogmanay in Fetlar, Shetland in the early 1900s. Straw-clad guisers would go from house to house.
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Scran ::: Hogmanay straw-clad guisers, Fetlar, Shetland, early 1900s

Thomas Edmondston, writing in the 1860s noted: 'Straw suits are still, in some parts of the Shetland islands, worn by the peasantry in order to disguise themselves when going from house to house at Ha [...]

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