1964: MUMMERS are PLANNING MY WEDDING | Six Ten | Weird & Wonderful | BBC Archive
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- Опубликовано: 26 май 2023
- BBC Northern Ireland's roving reporter James Boyce attends a traditional straw wedding in Derrylin, County Fermanagh and interviews local expert Captain George Saunderson.
"A straw wedding probably dates back to pre-Christian times."
"When the bridal couple return from their honeymoon, the local farmers and farmers' boys gather together dressed in straw to welcome home the happy couple."
This clip was taken from Six Ten, BBC Northern Ireland's local news programme.
Originally broadcast in 1964.
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Honeymooning in Blackpool...now that's a treat
The locals in their village doing all the mad wicker man stuff must have seemed very civilised and normal, if the happy couple spent their previous week in Blackpool.
Perfectly normal behaviour in a crazy world
This could almost have been a scene from "The Wicker Man"🔥
Fascinating - and fortunate to have this preserved for us to see.
Excellent tradition to add to my knowledge!
So this is what Lorena McK was singing about
Yes Mummers were pagan bringers of the Spring on Beltane Mayday. Fertility rites
We have a random book about these fellas in my work!! It’s quite wonderfully pagan and/or celt, and brilliantly alien to us now, so a bit unsettling.
None of that auld safe comfortable Presbyterianism for these lads.
The 12 days of Christmas mummers of Newfoundland, were way more fun. Dressing up, often cross-dressing and disguising their voices; until the host guessed who they were, and offered food and drinks.Then off to the next house.
That’s what I thought.
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I believe these are 'Strawboys' rather than 'Mummers'.
The dressing up and the disguised voices was a feature of 'mummers' and 'guisers' in England in the 19th century. I imagine that's where the Newfoundland 'mummering' custom originates from.
Sad. Captain Saunderson murdered in school 10 years later.
Lt. Col.
when was the wedding?
Before the reception.
Skeklers
Seems like an April fools joke to me 😊
Surely,april,fools
Pre-Christian times? This is blasphemy! On the other hand, if the Earth was created six thousand years ago, there were pre-Christian times indeed.
Sumer is icumen in
The evil Ford Anglia at 3.19, its evil mouth turned downwards. Aaaargh!
Well spotted.
@@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou I have owned two of them and have an armchair made from one.