BALLET IN CHURCH
Sir, —If we need more evidence of the swift reversion of the masses to paganism we have it in the article in yesterday’s paper entitled “Ballet of the Life of Christ Danced in Church.” In Margaret Murray’s “The God of the Witches” we read: “The so-called fertility dances are a case in point, for though they were once common throughout the world they survive in recognisable form only among the more backward peoples.” And further: “Mars in Rome was served by dancing priests, and the running step with which Moslems go round the Ka’sha is perhaps the survival of a sacred dance at Mecca.”— Yours, etc., EVOLUTION. October 1. 1954.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27471, 4 October 1954, Page 14
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