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Very proud of the Philadelphia Pranking Authority a Comic Brigade that I founded 14 yrs ago. Even TV commentator Larry said how much he liked them and their Zoo Escape theme. And they were the first group up, too!
#Philadelphia #SouthPhiladelphia #Mummers #Mummer #PhillyMummer #Parade #MummerParade
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Your last chance this holiday season to see this mummers' play by the Champeons of Folly! Celebrate Twelfth Night (for smaller values of twelve) while you're at it. Saturday Jan 3, Ithaca NY.
https://www.ithaca.com/calendar/#!/details/annual-twelfth-night-celebration/17619260/2026-01-03T19
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The Champeons of Folly are not done yet!
https://www.ithaca.com/calendar/#!/details/annual-twelfth-night-celebration/17619260/2026-01-03T19
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Coming up on December 20, the triumphant return of the Champeons of Folly at #Binghamton 's Cranberry Coffeehouse!
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the Lions part will celebrate Twelfth Night tomorrow.
On the #Bankside, outside #shakespearesglobe
A #traditional #twelfthnight with #mumming, #wassailing, #music & #dance
I will be a #WhiteBear playing the #violin
Do join us!#wassail #wassails #mummers #ragcoat #elizabethancostume #folk #folkmusic #traditionalmusic #beelzebub #OldOss #FolkTraditions #StGeorge #MummersPlay #holly #Ivy #OldChristmas #earlymoderndrama #folkplay
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the Lions part will celebrate Twelfth Night tomorrow.
On the #Bankside, outside #shakespearesglobe
A #traditional #twelfthnight with #mumming, #wassailing, #music & #dance
I will be a #WhiteBear playing the #violin
Do join us!#wassail #wassails #mummers #ragcoat #elizabethancostume #folk #folkmusic #traditionalmusic #beelzebub #OldOss #FolkTraditions #StGeorge #MummersPlay #holly #Ivy #OldChristmas #earlymoderndrama #folkplay
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the Lions part will celebrate Twelfth Night tomorrow.
On the #Bankside, outside #shakespearesglobe
A #traditional #twelfthnight with #mumming, #wassailing, #music & #dance
I will be a #WhiteBear playing the #violin
Do join us!#wassail #wassails #mummers #ragcoat #elizabethancostume #folk #folkmusic #traditionalmusic #beelzebub #OldOss #FolkTraditions #StGeorge #MummersPlay #holly #Ivy #OldChristmas #earlymoderndrama #folkplay
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A 'Lost' Christmas Custom of the North:
"They haven't gone guising here for a long time," said the old folk of Cambo in 1922.
"There was no 'guisering' at Christmas 1903," wrote Hastings Neville in Ford in his notes of that year.
'Guising' (apparently derived from 'disguising', referring to the costumes and masks worn) was the local version of the Mummers Plays that exist elsewhere.
In both Ford, in the far north of the county, and Cambo, 40 miles to the south, we have records of the old custom, which happened in the days leading up to Christmas. Both apparently involved the key character of a doctor, but in Ford, Revd Neville has preserved the entirety of the script, including 'King George', a young hero, Goliath, and a battle, and finishing with the rhyme:
"Your bottles are full of whisky,
Your barrels are full of beer,
I wish you a Merry Christmas
And a Happy New Year."Neville puts the dying of the custom down to the reduction of young people in the villages in an age of increased mechanisation and rural depopulation. But when I was growing up in Northumberland in the 1990s, 'guising' was what we called Trick or Treating at Halloween! Maybe it hasn't so much died as shifted.
#FolkHistory #LocalHistory #Folklore #FolkCustoms #Traditions #Christmas #Midwinter #ChristmasTraditions #RuralTradition #History #Northumberland #Mummers