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Moll in The Wood

A fabulous traditional jig sometimes known as ‘Moll in The Wad’. The tune title is listed among the tunes named in the writings of the County Wexford folklorist Patrick Kennedy, who names many tunes played by fiddlers and pipers in North West County Wexford in the early 1800’s, however it is not commonly played in the Wexford repertoire today. The word ‘Wad’ at one time signified a bundle of straw, so the tile means “Moll in The Straw”, although 'wad' has also been taken to mean 'wood'. Moll-in-the-straw was also a euphemism for after-(child)birth, and as a term for a harlot. Barry Callagahn (2007) identified Moll i' the Wad, or Mother Goose, as a popular pantomime figure of the late 18th century. There are nursery rhymes and old songs called "Moll in the Wad." G.F. Northall's English Folk Rymes (1892) notes the rhymes were popular in Gloucestershire more than fifty years before. Background Photograph taken by Johannes Plenio.