[Running On Empty]

Of course this is WAY off the topic of this thread, but I mention it only in passing and then must get to my work of the day.

I learned from a good Irishman that the Irish “jigs” were actually dances which conveyed messages, (many of them of catechetical or spiritual in nature) without them being detected as such. This is another genre of “hedgerow catechetics”.

It was told to me that it was a similar way of communicating as the native Americans did with smoke signals.

I was then given a demonstration of some of the
“jigs” and the messages that they were meant to convey.

Fascinating.

May the road rise up to greet you, may the wind be always at your back.

[Natural Law]

"I learned from a good Irishman that the Irish “jigs” were actually dances which conveyed messages, (many of them of catechetical or spiritual in nature) without them being detected as such. This is another genre of “hedgerow catechetics”."

One of my daughters took 3rd nationally in Irish dancing competitions years before River Dance made it popular. You are right to a degree about the messages. The pattern of movement on the floor, the sequence of steps are symbolic, but the music danced to held the real messages.