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If the Calusa did it at all, it was because it was dark and dancing in the pitch dark, outside the light of the fire, might result in all kinds of accidents.

The Calusa were moreover not noted for this kind of dancing, which is anyway almost totally an invention of old Hollywood movies. Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda, an early chronicler of the Calusa, only talks of them holding processions with priests and singing women, and of people dressed up as devils running through the villages, making loud animal noises.

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Larry Ritchie

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