Meaning of Galoshin | Babel Free

Definitions

A mummer or guiser who performs in a midwinter Mummers play.

Scotland

Examples

“In they stalk, got up in grotesque improvisations of mumming costume, and each armed with a wooden sword, and garrying a ghostly lantern hollowed out of a giant turnip, “Hara domes in Galoshin,” as that individual himself informs the company —being doubtless the traditional representative of some forgotten Templar Knight; and presently he is engaged in a sanguinary hand-to-hand encounter with another wooden-sworded champion upon the floor.”

“The only exception to this is the full text of a guising, or Galoshin, play⟳ from Balmaghie.”

“This is especially true of the Galoshins plays where his fixation on numbers and line lengths led him to mistake⟳ the nature of the play⟳.”

“Referred to as Daft Days by the Galoshin mummers in Scotland, this was a liminal period when normal conventions were in abeyance and abnormal conduct was permitted.”

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