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The Manx Dirk Dance as Ritual

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2019

Mona Douglas
Mona Douglas*
Affiliation:
Douglas, Isle of Man
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Proceedings of the Ninth Conference of the International Folk Music Council Held at Trossingen and Stuttgart, Germany
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Journal of the International Folk Music Council , Volume 9 , January 1957 , pp. 31 - 33
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Copyright © International Council for Traditional Music 1957

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Read and the dance illustrated by Stephen Newbold.

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* In a note to Miss Douglas's paper Don Nikolai Giovannelli (Isle of Man) suggests that the dance has affinities with ritual dances which he has seen abroad, notably one in Persia, another performed by Malayan natives and a third in Shanghai. All three had certain movements in common with the Manx Dance, but the Persian dance, which had suggestions of state ceremonial, was the closest to it. The Malayan dance was part of a marriage rite, as was also a Bedouin dance which the writer saw in North Africa. He also refers to a sword dance performed by the Syrian Jews in connection with marriage rites in which the bridegroom is called "The King" during the seven days of ceremony and treated with great deference on account of his temporary royalty.

* * See Journal of the Folk-Song Society, Vol. IV, No. 16, p. 160 (London, 1911) and Folk Songs of Europe, p. 55 (London, 1956).