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962:), people would disguise themselves with old articles of clothing and visit the homes of their friends and neighbours. They would at times cover their faces with a hood, scarf, mask or pillowcase to keep their identity hidden. In keeping with the theme of an inversion of rules, and of disguise, crossdressing was a common strategy, and men would sometimes dress as women and women as men. Travelling from house to house, some mummers would carry their own musical instruments to play, sing and dance in the houses they visited. The host and hostess of these 'mummers parties' would serve a small lunch which could consist of Christmas cake with a glass of syrup or blueberry or dogberry wine. Some mummers would drink a Christmas "grog" before they leave each house, a drink of an alcoholic beverage such as rum or whiskey. One important part of the custom was a guessing game to determine the identity of the visitors. As each mummer was identified, they would uncover their faces, but if their true identity is not guessed they did not have to unmask. The Mummers Festival takes place throughout December and includes workshops on how to make 305: 33: 1000:) working class young men roamed the streets on New Year's Day, organizing "riotous" processions, firing weapons into the air, and demanding free drinks in taverns, and generally challenging middle and upper-class notions of order and decorum. Unable to suppress the custom, by the 1880s the city government began to pursue a policy of co-option, requiring participants to join organized groups with designated leaders who had to apply for permits and were responsible for their groups actions. By 1900, these groups formed part of an organized, city-sanctioned parade with cash prizes for the best performances. About 15,000 mummers now perform in the parade each year. They are organized into four distinct types of troupes: Comics, Fancies, 468: 670:(another word for ram), has been performed, since at least 1895, by teams of boys. The brief play is usually introduced by two characters, an old man and an old woman ("Me and our owd lass"). The Tup was usually represented by a boy, bent over forwards, covered with a sack, and carrying a broomstick with a rough, wooden sheep's head attached. The Tup was killed by a Butcher, and sometimes another boy held a basin to catch the "blood". There is a Sheffield version where the Tup is killed and then brought back to life by the Doctor. This is the main play performed by the Northstow Mummers based in 869: 841:. All the characters are introduced in turn by the Master, St. George. There is no real interplay between the characters and no combat or cure, so it is more of a "calling-on song" than a play. Some of the characters dance solos as they are introduced, then all dance a longsword dance together, which climaxes with their swords being meshed together to form a "shield". They each dance with the shield upon their head, then it is laid on the floor and they withdraw their swords to finish the dance. St. George makes a short speech to end the performance. 721: 4540: 551: 636:) feature several different stock characters (including a Recruiting Sergeant, Tom Fool, Dame Jane and the "Lady bright and gay"). Tradition has it that ploughboys would take their plays from house to house and perform in exchange for money or gifts, some teams pulling a plough and threatened to plough up people's front gardens or path if they did not pay up. Examples of the play have been found in Denmark since the late 1940s. 390: 361: 958:" is a Newfoundland custom that dates back to the time of the earliest settlers who came from England and Ireland. It shares common antecedents with the Mummers' Play tradition, but in its current form is primarily a house-visiting tradition. Sometime during the Twelve Days of Christmas, usually on the night of the "Old Twelfth" (17 January; equivalent to 6 January in the old 242: 90:). Historically, mummers' plays consisted of informal groups of costumed community members that visited from house to house on various holidays. Today the term refers especially to a play in which a number of characters are called on stage, two of whom engage in a combat, the loser being revived by a doctor character. This play is sometimes found associated with a 915:
African heritage. The parade is related to the Mummers' Play tradition from Britain and Ireland. Revivals of this tradition are still celebrated annually in South Gloucestershire, England on Boxing Day along with other locations in England and in parts of Ireland on St. Stephen's Day and also in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador around Christmas.
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that showcases pageantry and creativity. This grand parade has history in the old world, and performances in Philadelphia began in the year 1900. The parade traces back to mid-17th-century roots, blending elements from Swedish, Finnish, Irish, English, German, and other European heritages, as well as
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in the early 20th century, but appears to have continued despite this condemnation. In 1935, the Carne Mummers were arrested for their street performance under the Dance Halls Act. In Fingal, the modern form of mummering was re-established by the Fingal Mummers in the 1980s, and is now documented as
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between 1746 and 1769. The fullest early version of a mummers' play text is probably the 1779 "Morrice Dancers'" play from Revesby, Lincolnshire. The full text ("A petygree of the Plouboys or modes dancers songs") is available online. Although performed at Christmas, this text is a forerunner of the
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All known Irish play scripts are in English though Irish custom and tradition have permeated mumming ceremony with famous characters from Irish history: Colmcille, Brian Boru, Art MacMorrough, Owen Roe O'Neill, Sarsfield and Wolfe Tone. The mummers are similar but distinct from the other traditions
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At certain feast days (e.g. saint's days), a lot of the populace would put on masks, and in practices that vary with geography, celebrate the day. One practice in example was for a group to visit a local manor, and 'sing out' the lord. If the lord couldn't match verse for verse the singing group
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Mumming, at any rate in the South of England, had its heyday at the end of the 19th century and the earliest years of the 20th century. Most traditional mummers groups (known as "sides") stopped with the onset of the First World War, but not before they had come to the attention of folklorists. In
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Mumming was a way of raising money and the play was taken round the big houses. Most Southern English versions end with the entrance of "Little Johnny Jack his wife and family on his back". Johnny, traditionally played by the youngest mummer in the group, first asks for food and then more urgently
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has been in use since the Middle Ages, no scripts or details survive from that era and the term may have been used loosely to describe performers of several different kinds. The earliest evidence of mummers' plays as they are known today is from the mid- to late 18th century. Mummers' plays should
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play features a song and a sword dance at its conclusion. Although the key traditional characters include St. George, St. Patrick and others, modern versions frequently adapt the play to contemporary political concerns. Characters featured since the 1990s include Sir MHK, Sir Banker, Expert and
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Mummers and "guisers" (performers in disguise) can be traced back at least to 1296, when the festivities for the marriage of Edward I's daughter at Christmas included "mummers of the court" along with "fiddlers and minstrels". These "revels" and "guisings" may have been an early form of
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On documents such as receipts and bills from the late medieval, come details of mumming parties organised by English monarchs, Henry VIII being known for taking his court mumming incognito. Later, Henry would ban social mumming, and bring the 'masque' form of entertainment to England.
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and the early use of the term "mumming" appears to refer specifically to a performance of dicing with the host for costly jewels, after which the mummers would join the guests for dancing, an event recorded in 1377 when 130 men on horseback went "mumming" to the Prince of Wales, later
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wearing masks and visors covering their faces in the churchyard and in the courtyard of a house. They were fined 40 shillings each. In 1604 Tyberius Winchester was fined for "guising" through the town of Elgin with a pillowcase as a disguise and William Pattoun was accused of singing
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the second half of the 20th century many groups were revived, mostly by folk music and dance enthusiasts. The revived plays are frequently taken around inns and public houses around Christmas time and the begging done for some charity rather than for the mummers themselves.
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nevertheless took on the meaning "costume, masquerade" and, by the 18th century, had lost its association with gambling and dice. Other than this association there is no clear evidence linking these late medieval and early modern customs with English mumming.
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play (Old Horse), another dramatised folksong in Yorkshire, was also known from roughly the same area, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, around Christmas. The custom persisted until at least 1970, when it was performed in private houses and pubs in
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The characters may be introduced in a series of short speeches (usually in rhyming couplets) or they may introduce themselves in the course of the play's action. The principal characters, presented in a wide variety of manners, are a hero, most commonly
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Mumming was used as a means of entertaining at feasts and functions, particular mention is made of one feast where 150 torch bearers lead the same number of mummers in, who would do acrobatics in a variety of costumes, including animal costumes.
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The formation of roving mumming groups became a popular practice so common it became associated with criminal or lewd behaviour, as the use of masks allowed anonymity; in the time of Henry VIII, it was banned for a period.
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and played a game of dice with him. A similar incident, involving an Englishman, is attested for the French court by the German count and chronicler Froben Christoph von Zimmern: during carnival 1540, while the French king
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In 1418 a law was passed in London forbidding in the city "mumming, plays, interludes or any other disguisings with any feigned beards, painted visors, deformed or coloured visages in any wise, upon pain of imprisonment".
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recorded the oral history of fourteen people from the lowlands of Scotland recounting their memories of "Galoshin" dramas. Galoshin is the hero in a drama in the tradition of Robin Hood plays. Building on this research,
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and Galoshin in Scotland), and his chief opponent (known as the Turkish Knight in southern England, but named Slasher elsewhere), and a quack Doctor who comes to restore the dead man to life. Other characters include:
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Ploughboys' Play in 1779, along with a "wild worm" (possibly mechanical), but it had no words. In the few instances where the dragon appears and speaks its words can be traced back to a Cornish script published by
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custom of "belsnickling" (adults in masks questioning children about whether they had been good during the previous year). Through the 19th century, large groups of disguised (often in
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groups of four boys dressed as Crwmpyn (hunchback) John, Indian Dark, Robin Hood and Doctor Brown took the play from house to house on Bonfire Night and were rewarded with money.
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is based on the characters of a traditional English mummers' play. It gave its name to a two-hour programme of traditional and traditionally-rooted English music, broadcast by
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came to Scotland in May 1590, twelve Edinburgh men performed a sword dance in costume with white shoes and floral hats, and other performed a Highland dance in costume.
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to a number of former British colonies. Ireland has its own unique history of mummers' play, and adopted the term for the tradition from the English language.
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often features and references mummers, with characters regularly referring to a comical, bungled, unbelievable, or manufactured event as a "mummer's farce".
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in the 18th century as part of a wide variety of working-class street celebrations around Christmas. By the early 19th century, it coalesced with two other
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According to German and Austrian sources dating from the 16th century, during carnival persons wearing masks used to make house-to-house visits offering a
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in around 1788. It features seven characters, Saint George, Saint James, Saint Dennis, Saint David, Saint Patrick, Saint Anthony and Saint Andrew, the
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In the 1950s, A.L. Taylor collected surviving fragments of seasonal Scottish folk plays he described as "Galoshens" or "Galatians". Later,
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A play text which had, until recently, been attributed to Mylor in Cornwall (much quoted in early studies of folk plays, such as
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Although the main season for mumming throughout Britain was around Christmas, some parts of England had plays performed around
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Davis, Susan G. (Summer 1982). "Making Night Hideous: Christmas Revelry and Public Order in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia".
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There are several traditional songs associated with mumming plays; the "calling-on" songs of sword dance teams are related:
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name women who danced at New Year 1623 to the sound of a trumpet. Six men, described as guisers or "gwysseris" performed a
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is based on a sword-dance or pace-egg play calling-on song, in which the characters are introduced one by one
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Estate Agent. A a book on the White Boys compiled and edited by Stephen Miller was published in 2010;
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for money. Johnny Jack's wife and family were either dolls in a model house or sometimes a picture.
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Comberbach Mummers Website; includes photos plus script for our version of St George and the Dragon
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able to resuscitate the vanquished character. Early scholars of folk drama, influenced by
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and Ireland, but there have been many revivals of mumming, often associated nowadays with
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Mummers' and guisers' plays were formerly performed throughout much of English-speaking
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The Doctor brings St George back to life in a 2015 production by the St Albans Mummers.
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In some parts of Britain and Ireland the plays are traditionally performed on or near
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rarely appears although it is often mentioned. A dragon seems to have appeared in the
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was played not only by masked persons, and not only during carnival, the German word
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Sarah Carpenter, 'Masking and politics: the Alison Craik incident, Edinburgh 1561',
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The World of Ice & Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones
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investigated the geographical distribution of the play in Scotland, and published
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The tradition of the mummers' play is still present in areas of Ireland including
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groups. These performances are comparable in some respects with others throughout
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George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" and the Medieval Literary Tradition
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Although there are earlier hints (such as a fragmentary speech by St George from
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Martin, George R. R.; García, Elio M. Jr.; Antonsson, Linda (28 October 2014).
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Broadly comic performances, the most common type features a doctor who has a
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performed by troupes of amateur actors, traditionally all male, known as
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Tewkesbury's Millennia of Mummers' Heritage kept alive - United Kingdom
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Taylor, A.L., "Galatians", Goloshens and the Inkerman Pace-Eggers", in
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himself wore a costume with a Venetian mask and danced at a wedding at
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The Truro cordwainers' play: a "new" eighteenth-century Christmas play
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Michael Pearce, 'Maskerye Claythis for James VI and Anna of Denmark',
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of county Fermanagh in Ireland, produced and directed by James Kelly
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Soul Cakers, in the mid-1970s, gathered round Dick, their Wild Horse
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Plays may be performed in the street or during visits to houses and
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Battery Radio Documentary about Christmas Mummering in Newfoundland
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South Riding Folk Arts Network: Christmas Luck-visiting customs
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Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Edinburgh: 1589-1603
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Mumming — a Yuletide Tradition by Bridget Haggerty in Ireland
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or Little Devil Doubt (who demands money from the audience).
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Mystery History : The Origins of British Mummers' Plays
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Ireland’s National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage
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Galoshins remembered : a penny was a lot in these days
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published a rhyme which had been used as a prelude to the
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World Library of Folk and Primitive Music. Vol 1. England
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by R. J. E. Tiddy – published posthumously in 1923 – and
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as the culmination of a whole day of English music, on
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is the title of a 1983 album by the English rock band
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BBC Northern Ireland Homepage, Your place & mine
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Mummers, Wrenboy and Strawboy traditions in Ireland
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All Silver and No Brass, An Irish Christmas Mumming
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Random House Publishing Group. p. 52. 1037:(1869) has a depiction of mummers, including 364:Weston Mummers perform at the Packhorse Inn, 2670:— Scripts, photos, articles, databases, etc. 2231: 2143:, 'Anna of Denmark's Coronation and Entry', 1325:Griffin, Robert H.; Shurgin, Ann H. (2000). 528:The Christmas Rhime or The Mummer's Own Book 471:An 1852 depiction of an English mummers play 245:Mummers performing in Exeter, Devon in 1994 2788: 2774: 2551: 2403: 545: 330:, who introduces some plays, the Fool and 2267:. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 1354: 1339: 872:The Saints fight in a performance of the 2660:— a 25-minute documentary featuring the 2182:(Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2022), p. 116. 2117:, 2 (Aberdeen, 1903), pp. 77, 119, 176-7 2010:Muirithe, Diarmaid O. (8 January 2000). 2009: 1574:Bryan Harris, article and collected text 867: 719: 549: 466: 388: 359: 303: 240: 31: 2560:, Warsaw University Press, p. 60, 2503: 2262: 2256: 2037:"Tradition of the men with straw masks" 1512: 1112:, Rounder 1741, CD (1998/reis), cut#16b 973: 949: 940: 662:a dramatised version of the well-known 487:, published by John White (d. 1769) in 4559: 2756:Mummering or Janneying in Newfoundland 2388: 2340: 2086: 2080: 1097:(1997) along with an extract from the 1093:Mummers, appears on SayDisc CD-SDL425 772:. The practice was discouraged by the 168:is sometimes explained to derive from 4118:Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus 2769: 2536: 2468: 2359: 2357: 2131:, 21:5 (November, 2007), pp. 625–636. 1011: 918: 317:, King George, or Prince George (but 2739:South West Dorset Mummers' Play 1880 2566:10.31338/uw.9788323514350.pp.211-230 2237: 1937: 1089:"The Singing of the Travels" by the 992:customs, shooting firearms, and the 2676:— article by Peter Millington from 2512:. New York: Random House. pp.  2087:Bailie, Stuart (24 December 2022). 462: 13: 2354: 1355:Brandreth, Gyles Daubeney (1985). 14: 4628: 2761:Momogeri — A Pontian Greek custom 2696:— article by Peter Millington in 2646: 2265:Galoshins: the Scottish Folk Play 984:Mummers' plays were performed in 927: 889:First recorded in 1832, the Manx 855:Galoshins: the Scottish Folk Play 724:The Armagh Rhymers performing at 189:("disguised person", attested in 145:not be confused with the earlier 4539: 4538: 3994:Christmas Day (Trading) Act 2004 3889:Old Santeclaus with Much Delight 1738:. 30 August 2004. Archived from 1164:"England in Ribbons", a song by 910:every New Year's Day there is a 654:and in nearby parts of northern 2627: 2615: 2588: 2545: 2530: 2497: 2462: 2437: 2416: 2404:Renee Duff (31 December 2018). 2397: 2393:. 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