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GUEST,guest, fred	What's a Mummers Play? (87* d)	RE: BS: What's a Mummers Play?	23 Jul 02
I think there was a fairly detailed account of costumed holiday mumming in War and Peace, I don't recall if a play was put on, but the children wore costumes, etc. why do people want to find old antecedents for things? I don't know that they do, but it's usually a pretty reasonable assumption that something evolved from something else, unless there's some strong reason that people would have suddenly started a spontaneous original social custom. Go out today, try to start one.

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