Though this odd holiday tradition is mostly folksy, mummering has had its dark moments. Horse skulls and sometimes murder are part of its history. Mummering is the folksy, but odd, Newfoundland ...

For most Newfoundlanders and Labradorians, that's a friendly question. Maybe you've heard it from holiday visitors wearing disguises. If not, you probably know it ...

Newfoundlanders carry the provincial flag in the Dec. 9 Mummers Parade through Bowring Park in St. John’s. Mummery is a tradition with English and Irish roots where people don disguises and go house ...

The custom of ‘mummering’ – in which groups of friends go from house to house, disguising their faces and playing the fool – has sprung back to life in Newfoundland. It even has its own festival ...

Every December in St. John’s, Newfoundland, people parade the streets wearing creepy masks, fake horse heads and their underwear on the outside. The spectacle is all part of the Mummers Festival, ...

ST. JOHN’S, NL—We are an androgynous, gender-bending spectacle, disguised, not costumed, faces obscured by white veils and grotesque masks. My 40D red bra is strapped over a couple of vintage shirts ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mummers at the Mummers Festival in St. John's, N.L., in 2011. Many Canadians got their first introduction to mummering during the ...

Photographer Adam Coish grew up mummering in Labrador City. For most Canadians, his shots offer a window into another world. Every year around Christmas, Canadians living in Newfoundland and Labrador ...

Most Canadians probably know mummering as a tradition unique, in this country, to Newfoundland and Labrador, and also parts of Nova Scotia. But at least one city south of the border has a similarly ...

Deep in the vaults at The Rooms in St. John's are dozens of artifacts telling the stories of holidays past, from religious traditions and superstitions, to toys and ornaments. Curator Maureen Peters ...