of mummers' plays as they are known today is from the mid- to late 18th century. Mummers' plays should not be confused with the earlier mystery plays. Mumming...

and hot Like a steaming hot bowl of pepper pot! The Mummers derive their name from the Mummers' plays performed in Philadelphia in the 18th century as part...

recitations. The hosts must guess the mummers' identities before offering them food or drink. They may poke and prod the mummers or ask them questions. To make...

...slating a Feb. 17 in-store date for ['The Mummers' Dance']. Loreena McKennitt's website The Mummers' Dance Lyrics Library and Archives Canada - Amicus...

live performance in 1982. The album's title and artwork refers to a Mummers' play, in which the identity of the players is hidden. A working title considered...

Folk plays such as Hoodening, Guising, Mummers Play and Soul Caking are generally verse sketches performed in countryside pubs in European countries, private...

storytelling. Mummers plays are still performed regularly throughout the United Kingdom as well as the U.S., such as the annual Mummers Parade in Philadelphia...

Guizer, a performer in a traditional event such as Up Helly Aa or a Mummers Play. Guizer Geyser Wide boy Geyser (disambiguation) This disambiguation page...

which is the origin of trick-or-treating Guiser, an amateur actor in a mummers' play Guizer, member of an Up Helly Aa squad Guise dancing, Christmastide...

name Mummenschanz [ˈmʊmənˌʃanʦ] is German for "mummery", or a play involving mummers. Mummer is an Early Modern English term for a mime artist. Bernie Schurch...

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Allhallowtide, and Harvest festival continue to be practised. Morris dancing, Mummers' plays, and Maypole dancing remain popular forms of folk traditions, often...

by mummers – townsfolk who would go about singing from door to door to request gifts. An example is given in the short story The Christmas Mummers (1858)...

England, they are particularly associated with May Day celebrations, mummers' plays and the Morris dance. The word hobby is glossed by the OED as "a small...

late 18th and into the 19th century by the Christmas folk plays later known as mummers' plays. Until Victorian times, Father Christmas was concerned with...

their play several times along the high street. Beginning in the Market place after the Christmas Hymns which are led by the vicar the mummers arrive...

Summer Mummers theatre group in Midland, Texas, USA MUMmer, a bioinformatics software system Mummer (album), a 1983 album by the group XTC The Mummers, a...

of Mummer's Day is now preferred. Golowan festival Mummers Parade Tom Bawcock's Eve "BBC Radio 4 - The Untold, Darkie Day: Michael and the Mummers". Bbc...

character involved in traditional customs such as the morris dance and mummers' play. Hobby horse or hobbyhorse may also refer to: Hobby horse (toy), a toy...

of Jesus Easter Drama Gospel Jesus Christ Superstar Morality play Mummers play Mystery play Resurrection of Jesus Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy Sanhedrin...

Millington, Peter (November 12, 2020). "Master Mummers - Folk Play Script: Tenby Guisers' Play - 1857 - L.P.Barnaschone (1857)". www.mastermummers...

tragic ones. Also important in this period were the folk dramas of the Mummers Play, performed during the Christmas season. Court masques were particularly...

and express human emotion. In the Middle Ages, the Mummers Play was a traditional English folk play, based loosely on the Saint George and the Dragon legend...

traditional mummers' play of the Isle of Man. The play and its actors are named because of the unusual white clothing they wear. The play is traditionally...

Minnesota. The tradition previously existed in all the Nordics. Yule goat Mummers Play Wassailing Polaznik Julebukk (Dictionary of American Regional English)...

Cass) Room, Room, Ladies and Gentlemen: an introduction to the English Mummers' play. London: English Folk Dance and Song Society/Folklore Society. 2002...

Eve. The Mummers were founded in 1953 by Bernard Baker, a local schoolteacher, who brought together a group to perform a local mummer's play which he...

Country Tonight. A mummers play text ascribed until recently to Mylor, Cornwall (quoted in studies of folk plays such as The Mummers Play by R. J. E. Tiddy...

Traditional English "Plough Jags" (performers of a regional variant of the mummers play) sometimes decorated their costumes (particularly their hats) with shiny...

First-foot Jasličkári Koliada Koledari List of Christmas carols Mari Lwyd Mummers' play Julebukking, Scandinavia Wassail Wish tree Yule goat Polaznik Oxford...