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Show ANCIENT "DEATH DANCE" " IS REVIVED AT LUBECK Terror or Relief Is Shown on Faces as the Weird Music Is Played. A revival of the nnclent custom of performing the "death dance" took place In the Church of St. Aegldlus, nt tubed:, recently. A visitor describing describ-ing his experiences of It says: "On entering the church. In the dim twilight, I noted injsterlous lights flashing from the gallery, while soft music was played. Tho curtelns which had hidden the gallery were then drawn aside, and the old building, build-ing, rich In carvings dating from tho Renaissance, was lit up by a cold blue light. The music ceased and then a tall, undefined ghostly llguro playing n flute was seen. "Up the darkened nnve n procession now appeared, the players clad In med-levnl med-levnl dresses. Heading tho procession proces-sion were the emperor nnd empress, the rnrdlnnl, the nrtlstocrnt, tho doctor, doc-tor, tho usurer, the nun, the peasant and the mother with her child. The procession mounted tho gallery nnd then disappeared In tho dark. "Tho death Iluto censed Its weird music, and Death ordered the emperor and then the remainder of the procession proces-sion before the tribune, nnd condemned con-demned them dll. Irrespective of position. posi-tion. Death then danced with them, the dancers showing their terror or relief by realistic moxements. The shrill accompaniment ac-companiment or n violin broke tho si-lenre. si-lenre. Dually Death convulsively gripped the child, the nmsle became more weird, till nt Inst the orgnn broke Into n crash of chords, tho players play-ers disappeared and the church was once more Hooded with light." |