Mirror of Literature,  12 (1828), 388–90.

Dancing

Anon

Genre:

Essay

Subjects:

Disease, Superstition, Menageries

People mentioned:

Philip Astley, Andrew Ducrow


    Refers in passing to the phenomenon of dancing with pain 'or when, as Lord Bacon says, "in pestilences, the malignity of the infecting vapour danceth the principal spirits"' (388). Briefly discusses St Vitus's Dance. Also reviews the history of dancing animals.



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