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Jack in the green
A Jack in the Green (also ''Jack in the green'', ''Jack-in-the-green'', ''Jack i' the Green'', ''Jack o' the Green'', etc.) is a participant in traditional English May Day parades and other May celebrations, who wears a large, foliage-covered, garland-like framework, usually pyramidal or conical in shape, which covers his body from head to foot. The name is also applied to the garland itself.
==History==
In the 16th and 17th centuries in England, people would make garlands of flowers and leaves for the May Day celebration. After becoming a source of competition between Works Guilds, these garlands became increasingly elaborate, to the extent that it covered the entire man. This became known as Jack in the Green. For some reason the figure became particularly associated with chimney sweeps as, for example, in Cheltenham;〔Wikisource: ''Folk-Lore'' Vol 4 "May Day in Cheltenham"〕 there are several explanations thereof, but none has been proven conclusively.
By the turn of the 20th century the custom had started to wane as a result of the Victorian disapproval of bawdy and anarchic behaviour. The Lord and Lady of the May,〔 with their practical jokes, were replaced by a pretty May Queen, while the noisy, drunken Jack in the Green vanished altogether from the parades.
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