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--The
sacred Romaiika dance of the Greek's is a kind of death
dance . It was the death dance of the last heroic
Suliote women, who in 1803
threw themselves, singing and dancing into an abyss before the
eyes of the Turks, The Romaiika consisted of the slow "prelude,"
zyganos, and the rapid choros (from Curt Sachs).
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