ghost dance
a ritual dance intended to establish communion with the dead, especially such a dance as performed by various messianic western American Indian cults in the late 19th century.
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The ghost dance was indulged in, and the feeling of dread and fear spread all over the Western country.
The Blue and The Gray | A. R. WhiteWhen night came on the form in white had disappeared—and, returning, the old chief taught the ghost-dance to his people.
Myths And Legends Of Our Own Land, Complete | Charles M. SkinnerAll I have to do is daub a little phosphorus on the dummy and it will be in shape to do the ghost dance.
The Motor Boys in the Clouds | Clarence YoungThe subject staggers into the ring and falls (Mooney, ghost dance, 925-926).
Notes on the Kiowa Sun Dance | Leslie SpierOn the other hand, the Paiute, from whom the ghost dance was derived, did not hypnotize.
Notes on the Kiowa Sun Dance | Leslie Spier
British Dictionary definitions for ghost dance
a religious dance of certain North American Indians, connected with a political movement (from about 1888) that looked to reunion with the dead and a return to an idealized state of affairs before Europeans came
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