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Speaking of the Mumming Plays, the writer says: "The one point in which there is no variation is that the character is killed and brought to life again. The play is a ceremonial performance, or rather it is the development in dramatic form of what was originally a religious or magical rite, representing or realizing the revivification of the character slain.
This revivification is the one essential and invariable feature of all the Mummer's plays in England." In certain cases, e.g., the famous Roman Spring festival of Mamurius Veturius and the Swabian ceremony referred to above, the central figure is an old man.
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