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Ritual and ceremony For authors such as Goldbiatt. this is the key issue about special events, the major characteristic that makes them speciai. In our historical examples it was very evident that ritual and ceremony often plaved an important part. In practice, many modern ceremonial activities are 'foesilized' or reinvented versions of Old traditions. The original tradition might have had some key role in the ceremony, now lost, but the ritual of doing it (like the inspection of guards of honour) still continues. Often the ritual ceremony is there because it does. in fact, emphasize the continuity of the tradition, even though the reason for the tradition has gone. In Ripon, England, a horn is blown at dusk to signify the setting of the night- watch. Now it is just a small event for tourists, but in olden days this had real purpose: the town was in open countryside and could be invaded or attacked by brigands or barbarians, and the sounding of the horn was to set the guard on the town walls and to ensure that the night watchmen, known as 'wakemen', ,carne on duty. Even this was not thought enough, and Ripon being a cathedral city, God was appealed to: 'If God keep not ye citie, ye wakemen waketh in vain'. Put in modern English, it God didn't look after the town, the watchmen were wasting their time. Thus, for hundreds of years, this short ceremony has taken place in Ripon and continues every nightfall even now. The watch is still called to the walls, although the walls are long gone and the last watchman long dead.
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