Dancers on Christmas Night punished for their impiety and condemned to dance for a whole year. 15th-century legend. Facsimile of an engraving by Wohlgemuth in "Liber Chronicarum Mundi", Nuremberg, 1493. "Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-âge et à l'époque de la Renaissance", by Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1878.

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