The Dances of Podhale (Poland) Joseph Needham Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Dec., 1937), pp. 117-119
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Mary Barton: An Historical Tale of Poland By Henry Krasinski Published by A.K. Newman and Co., 1846 One of the Colonel’s coachmen, a Carpathian mountaineer proposed to exhibit a performance common in his country. He was a man exceedingly tall and broad-chested, but appeared to possess singular activity. His brown hair, hanging down upon his back was curled at [...]
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Universal Geography: Or A Description of All Parts of the World, on a New Plan, According to the Great Natural Divisions of the Globe; Accompanied with Analytical, Synoptical, and Elementary Tables By Conrad Malte-Brun Published by A. Finley., 1829 The lowlanders of past times let no opportunity escape of harassing the mountaineers, who, irritated or [...]
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On the High Uplands Sagas, Songs, Tales and Legends of the Carpathians by Stanislaw Vincenz Dance description pg 43 What did they dance? The depicted their ancestors history and past adventures. They swung their axes at one another, erect and squatting, as though repulsing an enemy; they threw their axes from one to another, as [...]
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