Mikita Dance

[Helen Winkler <winklerh...>]

Thanks for the information about the chickens--that was interesting.  Here 
is another challenge.  In the yizkor book below they talk about the Mikita 
Dance.  Is Mikita a Yiddish word?  What is the Mikita dance?
Helen

http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/voronovo/v1.html
CHAPTER I: THE JEWISH TOWN OF WORONOWA
Written by Moshe Berkowitz, beginning 1943

The "wise man" of the town, Abraham from Lubarta, would pay a visit to every 
bride before the wedding, asking what she would prepare for the wedding 
feast. If it was rice cereal he would not attend, nor would he, as was his 
custom, greet her and her bridegroom carrying two full pails of water after 
the wedding ceremony. Nor would he dance his traditional "Mikita Dance" to 
entertain the guests. The wretched Abraham had once been scalded at a 
wedding with rice cereal and since then he avoided this dish. He announced 
that if poppy- seed buns were served at the wedding, he would be there. In 
most cases, the in-laws indulged him?..

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