 In England, the structure of the group and its rituals remained much the same, although its name was Anglicised to the Society of Horsemen.In England, the Word merged and absorbed many elements of traditional horse lore, for draught horses had replaced oxen in the country during the early modern period.The ability to control farm animals had been attributed to both witches and cunning folk in English folk tradition, and by the nineteenth-century there were various men operating in Britain who had gained renown for their alleged ability to control horses, such as the American James Samuel Rare and the Australian 'Groovy' Galvayne.