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Wikipedia: Mummers' Plays (also known as mumming) are seasonal folk plays performed by troupes of actors known as mummers or guisers (or by local names such as rhymers, pace-eggers, soulers, tipteerers, galoshins, guysers, and so on), originally from England (see wrenboys), but later in other parts of the world. They are sometimes performed in the street but more usually as house-to-house visits and in public houses. Although the term "mummers" has been used since medieval times, no play scripts or performance details survive from that era, and the term may have been used loosely to describe performers of several different kinds.
![[Antrobus Soul Cakers, in the mid 1970s, gathered round Dick, their Wild Horse]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Antrobus_Soul_Cakers_s.jpg "Antrobus Soul Cakers, in the mid 1970s, gathered round Dick, their Wild Horse")
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![[Mummers performing in Exeter, Devon in 1994]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Mummers04_s.jpg "Mummers performing in Exeter, Devon in 1994")
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![[Mummers performing in Exeter, Devon in 1994]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Mummers02_s.jpg "Mummers performing in Exeter, Devon in 1994")
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![[The doctor revives a knight — Weston Mummers, Packhorse Inn, Southstoke on Boxing Day 2007]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Westonmummers2_s.jpg "The doctor revives a knight — Weston Mummers, Packhorse Inn, Southstoke on Boxing Day 2007")
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![[Midwinter Mummers at the Whittlesea Straw Bear 2009]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Midwintermummers_s.jpg "Midwinter Mummers at the Whittlesea Straw Bear 2009")
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![[Weston Mummers who performed at the Packhorse Inn, Southstoke on Boxing Day 2007]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Westonmummers_s.jpg "Weston Mummers who performed at the Packhorse Inn, Southstoke on Boxing Day 2007")
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![[Mummers performing in front of Exeter Cathedral, Devon in 1994]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Mummers01_s.jpg "Mummers performing in front of Exeter Cathedral, Devon in 1994")
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