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• Although this practice is extinct, in the present the hooden horse is incorporated into various Kentish mummers plays and Morris dances that take place at different times of the year.
• During the Twelve Days of Christmas between 1466-67, the household accounts of the Arundells of Lanherne, Mawgan-in-Pydar, record expenditures to buy white bonnets for minstrels, cloth and bells for Morris dancers, as well as materials for costumes for the "disgysing" (mummers or guise dancers), an activity which involved music and dancing.
• Today the story is re-enacted raucously and colourfully every Wakes week by a local mummers group called the Tidza Guisers.
• The rural celebration is based on early begging rituals, similar to those still celebrated by mummers, wassailers and celebrants of Halloween.
• In The Delectable Duchy 'Q' (the writer Arthur Quiller-Couch) tells of mummers, guise-dancers and darky parties in c1892.
• Procession of mummers and revellers – Historical Quadrille of Britons, Romans, Saxons and Normans – Morris Dance -Mazurka, Knights of the Sword and Rose Maidens – Flirtation, Robin Hood and Maid Marian – Friar Tuck and the Dragon – Two Hobby Horses – General Dance – Pas seul, May Queen – Maypole Dance.
• This rural Mardi Gras celebration is based on early begging rituals, similar to those still celebrated by mummers, wassailers, and celebrants of Halloween.
• To make this a challenge for the hosts, the mummers may stuff their costumes, cross-dress, or speak while inhaling (ingressive speech).
• Another character wears a rather voluminous, tattered, long, dark dress; busily brushing the ground with a besom broom, "she" is reminiscent of the character Besom Bet who appears in some mummers plays.
• The Winster Guisers are a group who perform a traditional mummers play in and around the village of Winster, Derbyshire, UK, during the Christmas season.
• Mummers' plays are folk plays performed by troupes of amateur actors, traditionally all male, known as mummers or guisers (also by local names such as rhymers, pace-eggers, soulers, tipteerers, wrenboys, and galoshins).
• The hall is noted as being the location of an early performance of a mummers play by the Winster Guisers from a photograph taken ca.

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