Manes plaited, witch craft/crap/theft .. Sorry in advance!!

[GypsyGirl]

Erm... Aren't a twig and a bit of stick the same thing?

Sorry LOL! a little bit dinny at times .. yeah but it wasnt a big stick .. it was the size of about 1cm.. both horses LOL!

I shall agree with everyone it being a wind plait lol

 

[ILuvCowparsely]

I've never heard it called that before!

To me a bridlepath is a designated path for riding horses on.

in the 70's 80' we called it bridle patch had to trim it up

 

[tallyho!]

in the 70's 80' we called it bridle patch had to trim it up

Thats what I remember it as but it has evolved over the years.... c'mon leviathan, get with it!!

 

[Capriole]

we still called it a bridlepath back in the 70's

Maybe its regional?

 

[Alfiem]

My mare gets these all the time, I just untangle them with a tail thinner by just slicing through them with the blades, better then scissors, anyway if it is something sinister - if they can load the bugger they're welcome to her!!

 

[Tinseltoes]

ok it was just like this, apart from it was ALOT more detailed being plaited, then the knot at the end was thicker and held together by a piece of stick/wood/something hard and pointy .. also it was wider apart the 2 pieces of mane if that makes sence? got the picture from google images

Thats nothing compared to the ones my section A gets.I usually end up cutting them out.

 

[NeilM]

I keep reading all these threads about plaiting, and have always considered them nonsense, but then I have a New Forest and have always assumed that no one would want to take him.

However, I noticed something very worrying when I have been grooming him over the last two weekends. Someone has sneaked into the field and marked his tail by gluing large parts of it together with huge clumps of mud and hawthorn.

I have managed to brush all the mud markings out, but the following week, they are back again.

Of course, there is plenty of mud for the would be horse thieves to use, as it has been raining almost non stop for the past two weeks.

 

[tallyho!]

I keep reading all these threads about plaiting, and have always considered them nonsense, but then I have a New Forest and have always assumed that no one would want to take him.

However, I noticed something very worrying when I have been grooming him over the last two weekends. Someone has sneaked into the field and marked his tail by gluing large parts of it together with huge clumps of mud and hawthorn.

I have managed to brush all the mud markings out, but the following week, they are back again.

Of course, there is plenty of mud for the would be horse thieves to use, as it has been raining almost non stop for the past two weeks.

Unbelieveable!!! What will these stick-mud-twig thieves think of next?????

 

[Tinkerbee]

These threads always make me wonder where people keep their horses, manicured bowling greens?! We are constantly unravelling plaits, removing branches/twigs/bits of wood/burrs from manes and tails. I always assumed that this was standard when keeping horses in fields!

 

[Noodlebug]

What happens if all the horse thieves are reading these posts-best way to mark them as none would believe it!!!

 

[Noodlebug]

Whoops meant to be no one

 

[FanyDuChamp]

OMG Some one really wants Fany! Cos she gets plaits not just in her mane but in her tail too!

ETA- still called a bridle path here! Must be because I am ancient.
FDC

 

[SusannaF]

If it was a full-on plait it might have been a pagan thing - nothing to do with stealing your horse or cursing it, just something that some pagans do.

 

[Dry Rot]

Of course, there are wind plaits but don't you silly geese know that real plaits can't be photographed? You can't see them reflected in a mirror either. That's why you never see pictures on here (excepting wind plaits, of course).

Hope that clears that up!

Some people!

 

['S'teamed]

OMG Some one really wants Fany! Cos she gets plaits not just in her mane but in her tail too!

ETA- still called a bridle path here! Must be because I am ancient.
FDC

Bridle-path here aswell

 

[newbie_nix]

they call them bridle paths down here in NZ too!
Reminds me, my boy needs a bit of a trim.....

We haven't had a proper wind plait yet but with these strong southerlies, i'm sure its only a matter of time.....

 

[jennifer83]

Bridle path here to ( Oxfordshire) My horse collects all manner of things in his tail. Reminds me of mister twits beard.

 

[amandap]

One of my ponies (14hh) is always getting plaits and she is still with me after about seven years. She has plaits plaited and the wish bone type you describe as well as all sorts of weird and wonderful shapes. Wind, wind and more wind is the cause of hers. She just seems to have the sort of mane hair that tangles easily as she is the only one of mine who gets like this.

 

[spookypony]

So what does it mean then, if not just the mane or the tail, but the whole horse is clarted in mud and twigs??

My pony goes one better than mere mane or tail plaits: when I first got him, he came with full-on dreadlocks in his tail, which took about 45 minutes to comb and brush out. They were actually managing to wrap around his legs and trip him when he walked. TBH, rather than marking for theft, I had simply assumed that this might mean that he was a Rastafarian...

 

[ausipaliboi]

My boi used to have a stunning collection of these so call 'wind plaits', I however used the bogan term dreadlocks.

Solved the problem when I hogged his mane

Them there crazy pagens dunnot mess wiff me 'orse no more

 

[frozzy]

Always been a bridlepath here in Scotland too and if anyone dares to cut one in my welshies I will string them up!! Absolute b****r to grow out once they are cut out. Fine for plaited ponies and horses tho.

 

[Suffolkangel]

Always been a bridlepath here in Scotland too and if anyone dares to cut one in my welshies I will string them up!! Absolute b****r to grow out once they are cut out. Fine for plaited ponies and horses tho.

Really? I used to cut a bridle path in my welshies manes when doing a lot of long distance rides, havent cut it for years now but it only took a couple of months to grow out and you would never knew they had, had one....

 

[rockysmum]

Now you see I know that my three are involved in pagan rituals in the churchyard next door.

Nothing as mundane as plaits and twigs. These people are using those things (dont know their proper name) but as kids we called them "sticky buds"

Whoever does it mixes large amounts of mud together with these items and creates elaborate hair styles in their manes and tails. Think along the lines of the 60 beehives created by backcombing.

I know these items are not present in my field, I regularly search it, so they must be imported. Either my horses are doing it themselves and then hiding the evidence, or someone is importing them.

Would you like some pics the next time it happens, when is the Winter Solstice???

 

[Beausmate]

Wind plaits? We always called them witch knots. My filly used to get some seriously big ones, like they'd been plaited about, ooo, thirteen times, usually on a night with a full moon..........

Spoooky!!