The Obby Oss celebration is a traditional Mayday dance of two Hobby Horses, the earliest reference to which has been found in Padstow in 1803. Two dancers wearing masks and decorative ribbons parade from opposite ends of the town dressed as the Old Red Obby Oss and the Blue Ribbon Obby Oss. They attempt to entrap young maidens under the black disc-shaped cape and are accompanied by the Mayers dressed in white but with either red or blue ribbons denoting allegiance.