HORN-DANCE, a mediaeval dance, still celebrated during the September "wakes" at Abbots Bromley, a village on the borders of Needwood forest, Staffordshire. Men, each wearing a deer's skull with antlers, dance through the streets, pursued by a comrade who bestrides a mimic horse, and whips the dancers to keep them on the move. The horn-dance usually takes place on the Monday after Wakes Sunday.
See C. J. Sharp, The Sword Dances of Northern England together with the Horn Dance of Abbots Bromley (i9ii).