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St John's Morning Show | Dec 3, 2012 | 7:00

Murder and Mummers

The old Christmas mummering tradition is still going strong for people who enjoy partaking in the fun, but it was actually banned in Newfoundland for almost a century. Joy Fraser, a folklore professor in Virginia, has been looking into how the murder of a Bay Roberts fisherman led to the ban 150 years ago.

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