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dance of death  

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  • The dance of death, or danse macabre, seems to have first appeared as a practice in the late 13th and early 14th centuries. It was expressed as a dance in allegorical form in which a group of the dead led a group of the living in a dance procession down to their graves to show the living that all are equal in death and that no one will escape death. [Source: Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience; Dance of Death (Danse Macabre)]

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  • danse macabre

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