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There were open fronted booths decorated to fit the décor, wood counters and tables, that might be selling hot food, snacks or beer, imitation food of the period, pottery of course, wood crafts and sometimes implements of war of this armed time.
Most everyone was in costume and feigned the accents of the time. Woman wore ground length brightly colored dresses with frilly laced fronts, leather shoes, sandals, boots, and wore flowers in their hair or floppy cloth caps. Men wore, military armor, breast plates, swords, knives and daggers in leather sheaf's hung from broad leather waist belts, carried bows with leather quivers filled with feathered arrows, crossbows, spears and shields, knee high leather boots, floppy cloth caps, flamboyant hats some with feathers, helmets leather belts, sometimes chain mail and sometimes small pistol grip cross bows. Some dressed as peasants, farmers, shepherds and trades folk. Many were armed to the teeth.
Some were costumed as jesters, clowns, fools, jugglers, mimes and minstrels. And some men even strode around with live hawks on their shoulders ready for a day's hunting apparently. And there seemed to be a good deal of feasting, singing, marching, toast giving and reveling.
One can read a book of such things, that might be found in a volume of say King Author's tales, but it is another thing to actually possess the illusion and accompanying feelings of being in a medieval village.
We wandered around probably in circles, moving very slowly through the crowded avenues between the lines of tents and vendors under the awning of overhanging trees, perhaps stopping to watch a puppet show, a fencing display, a parade of military men and their pikes, archery gear and swords, sometimes even muskets, a musical concert, a juggling display or glass blowers - for some 3 hours before the affects of the drug began to wear off.
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