Re: resource request

Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 20:58:58 -0400
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.composition
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David Friedman wrote:
>
> In article <email-address-deleted>,
> email-address-deleted (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote:
>
> > Several, I think. And there are middle-eastern tribes where,
> > when a woman is in labor, all her female relatives dance
> > energetically to give her their strength by sympathetic magic;
> > and that's where belly dancing comes from. The abdominal ripples
> > are supposed to simulate the labor contractions.
>
> How solid is the evidence that that's the origin, do you know? Fact,
> conjecture, or where between?
Dunno. I heard the same thing from my belly-dance teacher, about 30
years and much less belly ago...
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