Come thou with me, tonight, and sit awhile, To see the Mummers (not at the Museum.
We laughed indeed, again, again, again, As clownish Mummers ancient songs and quips repeated.
The same applies to the play the mummers act at Christmas-time; all has to be learnt from the preceding generation of country folk.
And Christmastide is kept in real old English fashion; nor do the mummers forget to go their nightly rounds, with their strange tale of "St. George and the dragon.
M186 Dances of mummers called Perchten in Austria for the good of the crops.
Perhaps the old traveller was right in thinking that the mummers personated devils.
M188) In the province of Salzburg the Perchten mummers are also divided into two sets, the Beautiful Perchten and the Ugly Perchten.
The only probable explanation of these practices, as Mrs. Andree-Eysn rightly points out, is that the mummers thereby intend to fertilize the women whom they honour by these attentions.
M191 The bells worn by the Perchten mummersmay be intended to ban demons.
The procession was headed by a man with a big drum, and after him came lads bearing huge torches and lanterns fastened to tall poles; for in Salzburg or some parts of it these mummers played their pranks by night.
M192 Certain features in these processions or races of mummers seem to shew that the mummers represent beneficent spirits of fertility, who quicken the seed in the ground and offspring in the wombs of women.
M187 The running and leaping of the Perchten mummers on Twelfth Night.
We may suspect that the noisy music is played and the mummers cut their capers for the purpose rather of repelling demons than of inducing them to favour the growth of the rice.
D'you remember that night when the Mummers were here, and they had mulled port, and you went round and emptied all the glasses after they had gone away?
Illustration: 'But yester-eve and the mummerswere here!
Indeed, Dodsley regards the mummers who commonly acted them as the earliest genuine comedians of England.
The mummers were dancing before they began the play when the Churl came into the barn.
The mummers and the people were gathered round them and they saw the Churl's face get black with vexation.
I'm going to such a man's barn to see themummers perform a play.
The mummers seized the Churl, stripped him and put him across the bench.
Gilly took the money and left the house of the Churl of the Townland of Mischance, and the people and the mummerswent to the road with him, and cheered him as he went on his way.
The mummers did it very well although they had no one to take the part of the Unicorn.
By this time the mummers were preparing to leave; but Mrs. Yeobright stopped them by asking them to sit down and have a little supper.
Mrs. Yeobright, for want of room in the larger apartment, placed a bench for the mummers halfway through the pantry door, which opened from the sitting-room.
Through the Moonlight The next evening the mummers were assembled in the same spot, awaiting the entrance of the Turkish Knight.
When, from the comparative quiet within, the mummers judged that the dancers had taken their seats, Father Christmas advanced, lifted the latch, and put his head inside the door.
The play was hastily rehearsed, whereupon the other mummers were delighted with the new knight.
The mummers themselves were not afflicted with any such feeling for their art, though at the same time they were not enthusiastic.
The mummers doffed their helmets, and began to eat and drink.
Thank God," said the Turkish Knight, stamping, and taking from the wall the conventional lance that each of the mummers carried.
Her graceful gait, elegant figure, and dignified manner in general won the mummers to the opinion that they had gained by the exchange, if the newcomer were perfect in his part.
The other mummers appeared to be in no hurry to leave; and murmuring to the lad who sat next to her that she preferred waiting for them outside the house, she moved to the door as imperceptibly as possible, opened it, and slipped out.
The cap'n used to let the old mummers practise here.
For mummers and mumming Eustacia had the greatest contempt.
What, are you one of the Egdon mummers for this year?
As they drew nearer to the front of the house the mummers became aware that music and dancing were briskly flourishing within.
The other mummers have never spoken to me in their lives so that it would be safe enough; and if it were not, I should not mind.
Thus, the mummers having gathered hither from scattered points each came with his own tenets on early and late; and they waited a little longer as a compromise.
V Through the Moonlight The next evening the mummers were assembled in the same spot, awaiting the entrance of the Turkish Knight.
The other mummers have never spoken to me in their lives, so that it would be safe enough; and if it were not, I should not mind.
Turkish Knight, stamping, and taking from the wall the conventional lance that each of the mummers carried.
D' you remember that night when the Mummers were here, and they had mulled port, and you went round and emptied all the glasses after they had gone away?
Huddler or Huttler, mummers at Carnival to promote the flax crop in the Tyrol, ix.
Gniewkowo, in Prussian Lithuania, mummers on Twelfth Day near, viii.
Kuker and Kukerica, carnival mummers in Thrace and Bulgaria, viii.
Goat-skin, mask of, worn by mummers at Carnival, vii.
Then the mummers set to the prince three jewels, one after another, which were a bowl of gold, a cup of gold, and a ring of gold, which the prince won at three casts.
But when the prodigious appetites of the company had been appeased, the maskers and mummers entered the hall and performed strange antics and a curious play, fragments of which have come down to our own time.
Then are you the mummers who come round at Christmas, and act in people's kitchens, and people give them money, that mamma used to tell us about?
The mummers pricked their ears, but there was only a distant harsh and scraping sound, as of stones rubbed together.
It was the portrait of her mother as a child; but of this the nursery mummers knew nothing.
So the front door being very gently opened and closed, the nurserymummers stole away.
Scott, secure in his anonymity, proceeded to cut up, slash, and flay, the unfortunate mummers in a strain of pious indignation that was peculiarly his own.
Jimmy” delighted in setting the mummers by the ears.
The Old Year was tolled out and the New Year chimed in also, and again the mummers sang at the gate.
The mummers stood at our gate on Christmas morning and sang in the dawn, acting the part of the heavenly host.
The principle on which it rested was the familiar one of homoeopathic or imitative magic: by mimicking the act of ploughing and the growth of the corn the mummers hoped to ensure the success of the real ploughing, which was soon to take place.
The money collected by the mummers is used to buy wine, which is distributed among all the villagers at a banquet in the evening.
Thus at Malko-Tirnovsko, in the district of Adrianople, a procession of mummers goes through the streets on that day.
Early in the morning of Cheese Monday (the Monday of the last week in Carnival) the mummers go about the village levying contributions.
After the dance the mummers receive gifts of money, eggs, meal, and so on.
In this impressive style the mummers marched through the district, the people everywhere fleeing in terror at the sight of them, and even deserting the houses at their approach.
Having thus scoured the country, the mummers marched several times round the platform where the body was exposed, after which they bathed in a river and resumed their customary apparel.
According to Ellis, the mummers were supposed to be inspired by the spirit of the deceased; according to Moerenhout, they were not inspired by, but merely represented, the ghost.
When evening comes on, four of the mummers hold out a quilt or sheet by the corners, and the figure of the Carnival is made to tumble into it.
All the mummers wore crape, and all the horsemen carried blazing flambeaux.
Sometimes the Carnival is represented by a straw-man at the top of a pole which is borne through the town by a troop of mummers in the course of the afternoon.
M169 The mock killing of the leaf-clad mummers is probably a substitute for an old custom of killing them in earnest.
M166 The leaf-clad mummers in these customs represent the tree-spirit or spirit of vegetation.
One of the mummers generally wears a fox's skin in the form of a hood; but, beyond the laughter the tail that hangs down his back awakens by its motion when he dances, we are at a loss to find a meaning.
Of the comparatively modern play acted by the mummers space only enables me to give two examples, although I could give many more.
Christmas was the grand scene of mumming, and some mummers were disguised as bears, others like unicorns, bringing presents.
One is that it comes from Au qui menez (To the mistleto go), which mummers formerly cried in France at Christmas; and the other is that it is derived from Au gueux menez, i.
A troupe ofmummers tumbled in, a bear performed tricks, a Little Russian dulcimer-player sang songs.
The mummers brought in with them the smell of frost, furs, and napthaline.
Mummers were pouring into the town, as they always did on any holiday, and at the street corners they were to be seen going through their rough representations or practising some rude sort of jugglery.
Methinks thesemummers are no part of his real company," said Leofric.
There is a plot on hand to poison the Earl, thy father; and they who are the tools are sent hither in the guise of mummers--for all I know they may be mummers and jugglers by trade.
Have any mummers arrived of late at the Castle--mummers from foreign parts?
But however that may be, it is said of a certainty that a party of foreign mummers has started for Kenilworth, and that they are armed with a deadly draught, which is to be administered to the Earl ere they leave.
They go out; the OLD MAN plays the guitar; the other mummers dance; all watch them.
Enters] The mummershave come; shall I let them in?
And maybe themummers are coming; the young people wanted to dress up.
The mummers indignantly denied that any stranger could have come in with them, while the servants as positively asserted that no one whom they did not know had entered the house that evening.
The ringers and the singers and the mummers had taken their departure.
We used to call them jiggery-mummers at Foxholme, because they danced or jigged in the peculiar fashion I have described.
He has not come into the drawing-room since the mummers were here.
Hopes had been entertained that he, for a freak, had run off with themummers or singers; but they all positively asserted that he was not with them when they left the Hall.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mummers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
