1. Mumming is also a big tradition in County Fermanagh in Ulster.2. In traditional mumming plays, the participants first entered a private household. 3. The first verse reflects this relationship to mumming : 4. Since the Middle Ages there has been a tradition of mumming on a certain holiday. 5. Musicologist Dale Cockrell sees echoes of European mumming traditions in " Clare de Kitchen ". 6. Elsewhere in Europe, costumes, mumming and hobby horses were part of other yearly festivals. 7. Mumming was a way of raising money and the play was taken round the big houses.8. There is copious documentary evidence of morris dancing and mumming from 1466 / 7 to 1595. 9. Note here the allusion to the tradition of mumming , Morris dancing and wedding celebrations at Pentecost. 10. Other than this association there is no clear evidence linking these late medieval and early modern customs with English mumming .