Mumming groups often wear face-obscuring hats or other kinds of headgear and masks, some mummers'faces are blackened or painted.
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There are many references to mumming, guising or souling at Halloween in Britain and Ireland during the late 18th century and the 19th century.
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Mumming and guising was a part of Samhain from at least the 16th century and was recorded in parts of Ireland, Scotland, Mann and Wales.
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She was with a song and dance troupe, Bert Coutts'Yankee-Doodle Girls, and Chaplin was playing a drunk in'Mumming Birds '.
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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.
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Morris is often associated with mumming and some tunes used for morris are in Cornish MSS, but there is no evidence of the dance in 19th century Cornwall.
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"The more mischief is that time committed than in all the year besides, what masking and mumming, whereby robbery, whoredom, murder and what not is committed?
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There are many references to the custom during the 18th and 19th centuries in the mumming has long been associated with festivals at other times of the year, such as on Christmas.
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The oldest known textual reference to hoodening comes from the " Alphabet of Kenticisms ", a manuscript authored by Samuel Pegge, an Mumming and the Winster Guisers of Derbyshire.
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Ophiuchus's own brand of " rural English rock " was heavily influenced by traditional Mumming plays and the Venue Magazine "', Cousins stated : " It just happened.
