Later it is Jack and his hunters, their faces streaked with color extracted from plants, who will lead frenzied dancing around bonfires and succumb to murder.
Soca is a major recent import that has become the most important form of dance music on Anguilla; it is often accompanied by frenzied, sexualised dancing called wukin up.
The stated belief of the time was that victims needed to engage in frenzied dancing to prevent death from tarantism.
In many cases, participants were encouraged to flout cultural norms through cross-dressing, ritual madness or frenzied dancing.
The carnival king, Vaval, is burned in effigy after dusk, but the frenzied dancing goes on till after midnight.
The communitarianism, the celibacy, the frenzied dancing made them seem strange, and like other sects, they found themselves periodically persecuted.
Thus the night before a battle is usually marked by frenzied dancing followed by group sexual activity.
This being interspersed with periods of frenzied dancing, whirling and shaking which brought about episodes of religious ecstasy.
On Saturday night, Rabbi Intrator energized the worshipers once again, whipping them into frenzied dancing as the boat rounded the Battery and started up the East River.
It descended to earth to plague humanity with insanity, stomach ailments, food poisoning, seizures, and frenzied dancing.