personators

Early Chinese works prescribe that during the performance of ancestral rites, the ghosts are to be represented by people known as the personators of the dead who receive the offerings and are supposed to be temporarily possessed by spirits and to be their mouthpieces.

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896

Britons is still more alien from a species of display, where there is a constant and extemporaneous demand for wit, or the sort of ready small-talk which supplies its place, than from the regular exhibitions of the drama, where the author, standing responsible for language and sentiment, leaves to the personators of the scenes only the trouble of finding enunciation and action.

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

_Clothing_ decorated with cross and crescent, 42 deposited with the dead, 134 of flint in Jicarilla myth, 63 of godly personators, 48 of the Apache, 131 of the Jicarillas, 54, 134 of the Navaho, 136 of turquoise in Jicarilla myth, 63

The North American Indian Edward S. Curtis 1910

Unheralded the five masked personators march in from the east and take position in front of the cedar trees, the fifth man standing behind the fourth at the northern side.

The North American Indian Edward S. Curtis 1910

The personators act like a company of clowns, but at the same time they gather a large quantity of food.

The North American Indian Edward S. Curtis 1910

We have, again and again, seen elections stolen by gangs of personators, but we have brought that to an end in this way: We have had a canvass made of every elector entitled to vote in a given constituency, and an accurate written description taken of him.

The Machine in Honest Hands 1907

Therefore our author must be judged by what he has written, and not by his personators and calumniators.

The light of Egypt; or, The science of the soul and the stars 1900

For a long time I was the moving spirit in this play, and we had no lack of talented mimes, personators of sentimental heroes, and droll comedians.

The Story of My Life Ebers, Georg, 1837-1898 1892

Specimens of netting are also common, and an open-mesh legging, similar to the kind manufactured in ancient times by the Hopi and still worn by certain personators in their sacred dances, were taken from the western room of Honanki.

Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Jesse Walter Fewkes 1890

They became a race of jesters, moonlight masqueraders, personators of the dead.

Bricks without Straw A Novel 1880