Preface: the meaning and function of masks -- Introduction: incarnating the spirit depicted by the mask -- Ensouled artifacts and death masks -- Masks and representation -- Gods, images and ostenta -- Animals as ostenta -- Eldritch beings: the dark world of the indeterminate -- The furious host -- Spectral animals beyond the wild hunt -- Masks of invisibilty -- The powers of animal skins -- Animal disguise-horses -- Animal disguise-other animals -- Straw bears, straw men, and Jack O'Lent -- Dragonry -- Civic giants -- ...
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Preface: the meaning and function of masks -- Introduction: incarnating the spirit depicted by the mask -- Ensouled artifacts and death masks -- Masks and representation -- Gods, images and ostenta -- Animals as ostenta -- Eldritch beings: the dark world of the indeterminate -- The furious host -- Spectral animals beyond the wild hunt -- Masks of invisibilty -- The powers of animal skins -- Animal disguise-horses -- Animal disguise-other animals -- Straw bears, straw men, and Jack O'Lent -- Dragonry -- Civic giants -- Misrule, comedy, masks, and puppets -- Masquerades -- Carnival characters, mumming, and Mummers' plays -- Mummers: characters, disguises, and costumes -- Rural ceremonies, performance, and disguise -- Molly dancing and garlanding -- Fire, misrule and disorder -- Crime, rebellion, and ritual disguise -- Pantomime and futurism -- Authoritarian suppression of festivals.
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