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Dancing to a Bear

Dancing to a Bea.jpg Girl holding a cuddly catThumbnailsAnglo-Saxon Gleemen's Bear Dance.—X. CenturyGirl holding a cuddly catThumbnailsAnglo-Saxon Gleemen's Bear Dance.—X. CenturyGirl holding a cuddly catThumbnailsAnglo-Saxon Gleemen's Bear Dance.—X. CenturyGirl holding a cuddly catThumbnailsAnglo-Saxon Gleemen's Bear Dance.—X. CenturyGirl holding a cuddly catThumbnailsAnglo-Saxon Gleemen's Bear Dance.—X. Century
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This dance is executed by a female; and probably the perfection of the dance consisted in approaching and receding from the bear with great agility, so as to prevent his seizing upon her, and occasioning any interruption to the performance, which the animal, on the other hand, appears to be exceedingly desirous of effecting, being unmuzzled for the purpose, and irritated by the scourge of the juggler.

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The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England from the Earliest Period to the Present Time
By Joseph Strutt
Published 1845
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