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Mumming Plays in the Southern Balkans
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2013
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Attention was first drawn to this subject when Mr. Dawkins published in the Journal of Hellenic Studies in 1906, a full account of the masquerade performed by Greeks in the district of Viza in Eastern Thrace. Both he and Mr. Lawson had previously described the Skyros Carnival, and Polites had recorded several instances from Northern Greece. In 1908, Katsarov drew attention to the fact that such mumming was also known among the Bulgarians both near Adrianople and in Bulgaria proper. In 1910, I published in the sixteenth volume of this Annual an account of the Epiphany and Mayday masquerades that Mr. M. S. Thompson and I witnessed in Thessaly. Since then others have noted similar masquerades elsewhere and the evidence of these mumming plays has been used by writers on the origin of Greek tragedy and comedy. The most striking point brought out by recent study of the subject is that such plays are not confined to Greeks alone, they are performed by Bulgarians, Vlachs, Albanians and apparently, even by Gipsies. While travelling in Thessaly and Macedonia during the years 1910–1912, Mr. Thompson and I noted the existence of many similar masquerades.
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page 251 note 1 Cf. B.S.A. xvi, p. 250. My heartiest thanks are due to Major Samson for the trouble he took in giving me this account of tile masqueraders and in taking the photographs from which Figs. 1 and 2 are reproduced.
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