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A fascinating exploration of a historical system of beliefs and its links to the evolution of party. From southern Greece to north Russia, folks have long presumed in female spirits, bringers of fertility, who spend their evenings and days dancing in the areas and forests. So appealing were these spirit-maidens that they also took up house in 19th-century Loving literature. Archaeologist and linguist by job, folk dancer by avocation, Elizabeth Wayland Barber has sleuthed through ethnographic lore and archaeological studies of east and southeast Europe, translating enchanting folktales about these "dancing goddesses" as well as eyewitness accounts of traditional rituals - text messages that offer new perspectives on party in agrarian society. She then traces these goddesses and their dances back again through the Romans and Greeks to the first farmers of Europe. On the way, she locates the roots of many traditions, including coloring Easter eggs and throwing rice at the bride. The result is a detective history like no other and a joyful reminder of the human need to party.
