Note 854 — Chapter V · THE DIFFERENCING ELEMENTS OF COMMUNAL POETRY (continued 3)
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See Uhland, Kl. Schr., III. 399 ff., and 484 ff., who gives other well-known instances of this panic dance, as well as the tarantella of Italy. The shaman, of course, even among a tribe as low as the Veddahs, dances himself into a fit.