Note 115 — Chapter III · DANCING MANIA IN ABYSSINIA.
B. G. (Benjamin Guy) Babington translation
This may, however, be considered merely as a conjecture, founded upon the following passage in Ludolf’s Lexicon Æthiopic. Ed. 2da. Francof. 1699. fol. p. 142. Astarāgaza, de vexatione quadam diabolica accipitur. Marc. i. 26. ix. 18. Luc. ix. 39. Græcus habet σπαράττειν, vellicare, discerpere. Sed Æthiopes, teste Gregorio, pro morbo quodam accipiunt, quo quis perpetuo pedes agitare et quasi calcitrare cogitur. Fortassis est Saltatio S. Viti, vulgo St. Veitstanz.