The Ghost Dance movement was started in the 1890's by Wovoka, a Paiute man. The messiah's message declared that there would come a time when the earth would be destroyed, and a new world would be ...
If you’re feeling an eerie chill in the air, hearing whispers from the graveyard and see flickering candles over skulls — that is the essence of the word “macabre.” “Macabre” carries centuries of ...
Toronto: The ghost dance - 'bhooter naach' - sequence in Satyajit Ray's 1969 movie, Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne, is no ordinary fantasy interlude waiting to be relished on Halloween tonight. It's a 6-min ...
Native Americans performing ritual Ghost Dance. One standing woman is wearing a white dress, a special costume for the ritual dance, 1890. Photo by James Mooney, an ethnologist with US Dept. of ...