Dances with Spiders : Crisis, Celebrity, and Celebration in a Southern Italy.

For centuries, the rite of the tarantula was the only cure for those 'bitten' or 'possessed' by the mythic Apulian spider. Its victims had to dance to the local tarantella or 'pizzica' for days on end. Today, the pizzica has returned to the limelight, bringing to the fo...

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Main Author: Lüdtke, Karen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, Inc., 2008.
Series:Epistemologies of Healing, 2.
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