Note 7 — III. THE FEAST OF FOOLS IN EUROPE.
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Faber advances the opinion that the “mummers” or clowns who figured in the pastimes of “the abbot of unreason,” etc., bear a strong resemblance to the animal-headed Egyptian priests in the sacred dances represented on the Bembine or Isiac table. (See Faber’s “Pagan Idolatry,” London, 1816, vol. ii. p. 479.)