The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance by Elizabeth Wayland Barber

The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance

Elizabeth Wayland Barber

448 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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From southern Greece to northern Russia, people have long believed in female spirits, bringers of fertility, who spend their nights and days dancing in the fields and forests. So appealing were these spirit-maidens that they also took up residence...

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