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Woodcraft Folk

A truly strange organisation.

Founded, I think, in the 30s, by people who found the Scouting movement too paramilitary for their offspring.

Woodcraft Folk operate on pacifist and socialist principles. They eschew uniforms, badges and the other accoutrements, concentrating on creative play, co-operation and quiet contemplation.

What is most baffling is how the organisation has continued to function as admission of membership is tantamount to taking out an advert in the school magazine inviting people to flush your head down the lavatories in break.

As far as I am aware nobody has ever admitted to being a member in adulthood which gives this happy band of little elves a more effective omerta than the Mafia.

Personally, I suspect them of covert connections with P2, the Illuminati, the Bilderburg Group and the Vatican and, though obviously I have no documentary evidence for this, they may have faked JFK's landing on the moon.