The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #162898 Message #3880667
Posted By: Jack Campin
06-Oct-17 - 12:43 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Amazing bottle dancers
Subject: RE: Origins: Amazing bottle dancers
Bottle-on-the-head dancing is traditional Romanian, adopted by the Jews from their neighbours. I've not seen it there myself, but my wife saw it at a peasant wedding at an arse-end-of-nowhere village near Iasi in Moldavia about 25 years ago, where it is unlikely anybody would have heard of Fiddler on the Roof.