BOOKS
- Crossing the Borderlines: Guising Masking & Ritual Animal Disguises in the European Tradition by Nigel Pennick
- Wilder Mann: The Image of the Savage by Charles Freger
- Mummers, Maypoles & Milkmaids: A Journey Through the English Ritual Year by Sara Hannant
- Masken im Alpenraum: Perchten: Tresterer, Wilde Leut’… by Clemens Zerling & Christian Schweiger (in German)
- The Krampus and the Old, Dark Christmas: Roots and Rebirth of the Folkloric Devil by Al Ridenour
- The Hobby Horse and Other Animal Masks by Violet Alford
- Ritual Animal Disguise by E.C. Cawte
- Arcadia Britannica: A Modern British Folklore Portrait by Henry Bourne
- Masquerade and Postsocialism: Ritual and Cultural Dispossession in Bulgaria by Gerald Creed
- Once a Year by Axel Hoedt (Carnival in Southwest Germany)
- Make Merry In Step and Song: A Seasonal Treasury of Music, Mummer’s Plays & Celebrations in the English Folk Tradition by Bronwen Forbes
- Sacred Mask, Sacred Dance by Evan John Jones & Chas S. Clifton
- The English Mummers Play by Alex Helm
- The English Mummers and Their Plays: Traces of Ancient Mysteries by Alan Brody
- Once a Year: Some Traditional British Customs by Homer Sykes
- All Silver and No Brass: An Irish Christmas Mumming by Henry Glassie
- Christmas Mumming in Newfoundland by Herbert Halpert
- Christmas in Ritual and Tradition by Clement A. Miles (available online from Project Gutenberg)
- The Old Magic of Christmas: Yuletide Traditions for the Darkest Days of the Year by Linda Raedisch
- Acadian Mi-Carême: Masks and Merrymaking by Georges Arsenault
- Masks and Mumming in the Nordic Area edited by Terry Gunnell
- Masks: The Art of Expression by John Mack
- Masks and Masking in Medieval and Early Tudor England by Meg Twycross and Sarah Carpenter
- Glacial Jubilé by Estelle Hanania
- Mumming, Howling and Hoodening: Midwinter Rituals in Sussex, Kent and Surrey by Geoff and Fran Doel
- Percy Maylam’s Kent Hooden Horse and the Traditions of Hoodening and Gavelkind by Richard Maylam et al.
ARTICLES
- Perchta the Belly-Slitter and Her Kin: A View of Some Traditional Threatening Figures, Threats and Punishments by John B. Smith (PDF)
- Recovering European Ritual Bear Hunts: A Comparative Study of Basque and Sardinian Ursine Carnival Performances by Roslyn M. Frank (PDF)
WEBSITES
- Fear the Austrian Perchten: Pagan Traditions in the Alps
- The Perchten Dancers of Salzburg Austria Tyrol Pinzgau
- Europe’s Wild Men (National Geographic)
- Better Not Pout: Krampus is Coming to Town
- Pre-Christian Alpine Traditions
- Master Mummers (folk plays)
DOCUMENTARIES
- Mummers, Masks & Mischief (Youtube)
- Here’s a Health to the Barley Mow (DVD)
- Mari Lwyd (Youtube)
- Mari Lwyd (Vimeo)