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 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
Mari Lwyd, Eugene Oregon, New Years Eve 2017
January 5, 2018
Two years ago I managed to procure a pony skull found in the wilds of Dartmoor and built my very own Mari Lwyd. … More Mari Lwyd, Eugene Oregon, New Years Eve 2017
Mummering in Newfoundland
December 27, 2016
Mummering originated in England and Ireland, and the earliest record of it in Newfoundland dates to 1819, according to the Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage project. … More Mummering in Newfoundland
Perchtenlauf, Eugene Oregon, December 2014
September 4, 2015
The second Eugene Perchtenlauf had a few of the same participants, but many new ones as well. … More Perchtenlauf, Eugene Oregon, December 2014
Making Magic
September 4, 2015
The varied traditions of mumming throughout Europe (and now here in North America as well) all use masks, costumes and theatre-in-motion to embody the spiritual forces and changes occurring in the land and the community at special, liminal times of year. … More Making Magic
Masks & Monsters 