Today you might only know the phrase “the 12 days of Christmas” from the popular carol. Few people still observe all 12 days, ...

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In Pocklington, ‘mummers’ would perform short plays in people’s houses ... The Sheriff of York leads the York Waits, a medieval and renaissance band, and the York guards, known as halberdiers, through ...

Medieval Christmas customs A popular Christmas custom with obvious pagan roots was mumming. Mummers in medieval English villages wore masks and women’s clothing sang festive folk songs, and told jokes ...

My bible was a gazetteer called British Popular Customs Present and Past compiled in the 1870s by the Rev. T.F. Thiselton Dyer, with the attractively Ronseal subtitle “illustrating the social and ...

Mummers carry on the tradition at the village of New Inn ... Wrens were hunted for many years throughout Europe in medieval times with Ireland no exception to that. In most parts of the island, the ...

They've done live snake scenes." But this time, the Millersville University professor from Allentown learned a tale from medieval folklore, enticing him overseas. "It's like a story kind of ...