Please explain me the term mumming?
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traditional dramatic entertainment, still performed in a few villages in England and Northern Ireland, in which a champion is killed in a fight and is then brought to life by a doctor. The name has been connected with words such as mumble and mute; with the German mumme (“mask,” “masker”); and with the Greek mommo (denoting a child’s bugbear, or a frightening mask).
According to the original play St. George, introduced as a gallant Christian hero, fights an infidel knight, and one of them is slain. A doctor is then presented, who restores the dead warrior to life. Other characters include a presenter, a fool in cap and bells, and a man dressed in woman’s clothes. Father Christmas also appears. It is likely that the basic story of death and resurrection.
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Found a nice mumming play vedio clipping on the youtube for your kind browsel:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFOLxpnstSc
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummers_Play
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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, 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.
Midwinter Mummers at the Whittlesea Straw Bear 2009
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. Mumming may have precedents in German and French carnival customs, with rare but close parallels also in late medieval England
The word mummer is sometimes explained to derive from Middle English mum ("silent") or Greek mommo ("mask"), but is more likely to be associated with Early New High German mummer ("disguised person", attested in Johann Fischart) and vermummen ("to wrap up, to disguise, to mask ones faces")
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Other definitions include:
http://www.lexiology.com/meaning/mumming
2. (n) of China
3. (n) informal terms for a mother
4. (n) secrecy
5. (adj) failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to
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