Bees have a dance they do in the hive to show the other bees where they can find a good honey stash. Some people dance with wolves. Snoopy had a happy dance.

I was looking through my files and came upon an article that I had printed from the Internet entitled The Devil's Dyke Morris Men. Morris Dancers are men only; that's the tradition. Devil's Dyke is a location in England.

The tradition of the Morris Men is ancient. You need only to do a search for Morris Men on the Internet to call up a great number of entries from many parts of the world. The Devil's Dyke Morris Men trace their history to the Dark Ages when a dyke, a massive earthwork, was built in the fens to keep out the marauding Mercians.

Maurauding Mercians has kind of a ring to it, doesn't it? So, logic follows that a bunch of men would wear special clothes in stylized dances to keep out the invaders, right? There must be more to it than that.

These Morris Dancers do a variety of dances that include sticks, handkerchiefs, face paint, long sword, rapper, and clogs. That's why they should be in my research files.

Even though the Morris Dancers are currently doing their dance, I think what they are doing is much older than that.

The Morris dancers probably had a good reason for dancing on the Devil's Dyke, I suppose. Were devils thought of as being of the male gender? The Devil, himself, was always pictured as male.