Make the Night Hideous : : Discourses of Four Canadian Charivaris, 1881-1940 / / Pauline Greenhill.

The charivari is a loud, late-night surprise house-visiting custom from members of a community, usually to a newlywed couple, accompanied by a quête (a request for a treat or money in exchange for the noisy performance) and/or pranks. Up to the first decades of the twentieth century, charivaris were...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
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