Solo Mumming, Maine, Yule 2022
December 24, 2022
This year I find myself in far different circumstances than in recent years … More Solo Mumming, Maine, Yule 2022
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Carnival in Hungary
February 22, 2022
European mumming customs come in seasonal clusters … More Carnival in Hungary
Perchtenlauf, Eugene, Oregon, New Year’s Eve 2021
January 4, 2022
Once more we gathered on New Year’s Eve to chase away the spirits of darkness and winter and welcome in a fresh start … More Perchtenlauf, Eugene, Oregon, New Year’s Eve 2021
Perchtenlauf, Eugene, Oregon, New Year’s Eve 2020
January 3, 2021
This year’s lauf, like everything else about this year, was markedly different. … More Perchtenlauf, Eugene, Oregon, New Year’s Eve 2020
Deep in the Wood
December 22, 2020
The 2015 Italian movie Deep in the Wood is set in an alpine village and begins on Krampusnacht … More Deep in the Wood
Mummer Doll
December 20, 2020
A year ago, I found a strange little baby doll in a thrift store, dressed in a puffy suit of white fake fur… … More Mummer Doll
Perchtenlauf, Eugene, Oregon, New Year’s Eve 2019
January 9, 2020
Once more, this past New Year’s Eve, we laufed throughout the city – a group of about nine monsters of various, mostly traditional types (including our very first Schnabelpercht!). … More Perchtenlauf, Eugene, Oregon, New Year’s Eve 2019
Perchtenlauf, Eugene, Oregon, New Year’s Eve 2018
January 8, 2019
This year our Perchtenlauf was revived by one of the original participants from the first one five years ago. We had about a dozen monsters making a ruckus along an expanded route … More Perchtenlauf, Eugene, Oregon, New Year’s Eve 2018
Another Music Video With Mummers
August 24, 2016
This time it’s Placebo’s new video for “Jesus’ Son,” filmed on location in Sardinia and featuring stunning Sardinian mummers costumes with shaggy sheepskins, enormous bells and horned masks. According to one entertainment website, “The surreal imagery taps into the song’s spiritual undertones.”
Run Boy Run
July 15, 2016
Woodkid’s self-directed music video for “Run Boy Run” features a host of monsters running alongside a child. They may not technically be mummers, but the costumes clearly evoke traditional mumming costumes, made of moss and animal skulls, and they are definitely in a “lauf” (run) and look scary, even if they are helping the boy on his … More Run Boy Run
Masks & Monsters 