Garfield County News | 1931-07-10 | Page 8 | "Dance of Death"

dance of death the word macabre signifies pertaining I 1 to the danso macabre or the dance of death this was a favorite favor vor it a a allegorical I 1 leg orIcal representation in the art literature and pantomime of europe in tho the middle ages death was represented as a skeleton leading other skeletons or living dancers to the grave according to the century centar y dictionary the name la Is probably derived from that of an obscure german poet who wrote dial dialogues O of death other authorities attribute it to the arabian word nial abir for cemetery or to tho the name of some painter of the allegory it Is pronounced ma kaber haber ka ha ber the first all a as in ask we tho second a as in arm and with second syllable accented