Testimony of: doll representing a boy
Source Yvonne Hunt, Traditional Dance in Greek Culture, Ateny 1996, p. 61
Original text …the young girls collect in groups f five or more (they call themselves Lazarines), and make a doll representing a boy. One of them is chosen as leader to carry the doll, and then decorated with flowers they wander from house to house singing songs either in Vlach or Greek.
Time/occasion of occurence Lazaros Saturday
Region of occurence Thessaly - Show on map
Function symbolic,
Dance name Lazarines
Symbol in Kinetography score


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