The Cornish are a fiecely patriotic people and they certainly do not consider themselves to be English. With Celtic blood running through their veins, they keep alive many pagan traditions.
Every year on the 8 May, the small town of Helston, Cornwall, UK, celebrates one such traddition, welcoming the return of spring. For hundeds of years, revellers dance from dawn to dusk, in what is known as the Furry Dance, Probably better known to people outside Cornwall as the Cornish Floral Dance.
Zooidpix, who posted this video, informs us that "Throughout the Flora Day, the population perform the Furry (or Faddy) Dance in long procession through the banks, shops, houses and streets, all decorated with greenery and flowers, following the town silver and brass band as they endlessly repeat their unique, mesmerising tune from 7am to about 7pm when the final dance ends."
Shipwrecks, pirates and treasure, its the stuff of fantasy and legend but for a company of modern-day treasure hunters, it is a profitable business.
Odyssey Marine Exploration is a leader in the field of deep-ocean shipwreck exploration and not for the first time, they have landed a record breaking haul of treasure. Their latest find includes over 500,000 silver coins weighing more than 17 tons, hundreds of gold coins, worked gold, and other artifacts. It is believed that this recovery constitutes the largest collection of coins ever excavated from a historical shipwreck site, codenamed Black Swan.
The 17th-century treasure is estimated to be worth around $500 million but sorry treasure seekers, the company hasn't posted the geo-location of the site which is some 40 miles south west of England's Lands End.
