Dorset Ooser
Melbury Osmond, Dorset
The Dorset Ooser is a horned folk mask recorded in nineteenth-century Melbury Osmond. Its grim hinged jaws and half-human, half-beast appearance were used in village customs to frighten revellers or shame people judged to have behaved badly.
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