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Thread #49704   Message #753526
Posted By: greg stephens
24-Jul-02 - 02:18 AM
Thread Name: What's a Mummers Play?
Subject: RE: BS: What's a Mummers Play?
I mean in Britain and elsewhere.eg Hobby Horse England, folk plays Balkans, animal disguise performances central Asia. I find it perfectly all right including geograpically and temporally widespread examples....the widespread nature of eg Indo European Languages(Dingle to Calcutta) and other cultural connections suggest to me very widespread links over thousands of years.If people from Kidderminster to Kabul use versions of the same language and the same agricultural tools, I don't find it surprising if the cultures both contain vestiges of similar centrally important customs associated with ensuring successful agriculture.