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Vlach Magic Dance

August 3, 2020 3 Comments

By Ivan Ristic

High noon. In the woods, under the spring Sun obscured by clouds, a coven of women danced in a trance. They screamed and moaned, exposed their pendulous undulating breasts to the eyes of their arcane Gods.

Yet, hidden in the bushes, on a pile of stripped robes, lay an unwelcome guest with a smartphone in his hand. He recorded their invocations and captured images of their grotesque choreography just as a lepidopterist captures images of butterflies. His eyes were wide open, his ears rang with their sacred chant.

In his memory we reassembled the footage into a documentary of the events.

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  1. derekmcmillan1951 says

    August 3, 2020 at 10:50 am

    This was an interesting story. I have one quibble with the editing. Does sun have a capital letter and should it be “he” in the last paragraph? It was a good story and I enjoyed it.

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    • Danny says

      August 3, 2020 at 12:08 pm

      If sun is used as a proper noun, as it is here introduced by “the” (definite article), I believe it should be capitalized—and in this case, Spring, should also be capitalized because “spring” is not being used as an adjective but is part of the compound noun, Spring Sun.

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  2. Kelly Louisa Balliu says

    August 5, 2020 at 6:33 am

    I liked this. It reminded me a little of a wonderful film named The Wicker Man 🙂

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