sentences:  Young men, dressed in skins and furs, would move through the streets of town or village, rattling chains and bells.The tradition also exists in parts of Newfoundland (see mummering), Nova Scotia, the prairie provinces of Canada and some communities in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina.A writer to the letters column of "The Times" refers to an illustration of "Pelz-Nickel" in a book by English author Harriet Myrtle, "The Little Sister" (1851).