The sun warms my skin beneath my sweater and jeans. I was an indoors person, a techno pagan, if outside was so great why have our ancestors spent millennia perfecting inside? .

TO DRIVE THE DARK AWAY. One of the primary purposes of mumming appears to be driving out the dangerous spirits of winter. This is why so many traditions happen during the darkest part of the year, usually around the winter solstice but as early as Halloween and as late as Candlemas in February.