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With the famous festival of the Furry, or Flora Dance held in Helston. This day is held every year on May 8th unless that day falls on a Sunday or Monday, when it is held on the preceding Saturday.

Dancing begins at 7:00 am, and at 8.30 there's the mummers' play known as the Hal-an-Tow, at several venues throughout the town. Watch St George and St Michael slay the Dragon and the Devil, cheered on by a crowd dressed in Lincoln green and Elizabethan robes. Then there are other dances, children's dance at 10:00 am, the principal dance, with invited participants in top hats, tails and dress gowns and a final dance at 5:00 pm.

The origins of the dance are certainly pre-Christian and are connected with ancient spring festivals all over Europe. Nowadays its ancient intention of ushering in prosperous harvests goes hand in hand with the splash of color all over the town, the joyous music and high spirits of all involved.

You'll find the town decked out with bluebells, gorse, laurel leaves and colourful flags.