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Mummering is a Christmas-time house-visiting tradition practiced in Newfoundland and Labrador, Ireland, Philadelphia, and parts of the United Kingdom. Also known as mumming or janneying , it typically involves a group of friends or family who dress in disguise and visit homes within their community or neighboring communities during the twelve ...
Mummering" 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.
For mummering especially, the ugly stick is the perfect accompaniment. Unlike say a guitar which is somewhat fragile, the ugly stick is a sturdy instrument that can withstand a hard night of winter weather and partying. Percussion and hard stepping go so well together. It also doubles as cane for those having trouble staying on their feet! [1]
Political and religious changes in society render some traditions obsolete over time, and many rituals go in and out of vogue as popular culture cycles through embracing the new and reclaiming the ...
Samuel Johnson, Dictionary of the English Language, 1755, glosses: "A strong, active horse, of a middle size, said to have been originally from Ireland; an ambling nag." Hoblers or Hovellers were men who kept a light nag that they may give instant information of threatened invasion. (Old French, hober, to move up and down; our hobby, q.v.)
A participant in the Newfoundland and Labrador Christmas time celebration based on the Irish tradition of mummering; A participant in Mummer's Day, a midwinter celebration in Padstow, Cornwall, UK; A mime artist, one acting out a story through body motions, without use of speech; A member of the Summer Mummers theatre group in Midland, Texas, USA
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Tibb's Eve was a "non-time"; if something was said to happen on Tibb's Eve, it was unlikely it would ever happen. It appears circa 1785 in "A classical dictionary of the vulgar tongue" thusly: "Saint Tibb's Evening, the evening of the last day, or day of Judgement; he will pay you on St. Tibb's Eve, (Irish)."