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| The Hardy Players perform a mumming play |
This week Dorset author Peter Cooper, who wrote the play She Opened
The Door, about the women in the life of Thomas Hardy, looks at the
festive tradition of Mumming plays. Mumming is a curious custom in which heavily disguised folk,
traditionally men, travel from big house to pub to earn a little extra
Christmas money.
Read More: Source Dorset Echo Tuesday 18th December 2012
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