The Vetlatori Dance: "Little Angels go to Heaven"

This paper discusses the vetlatori dance performed on the occasion of a baptised infant's death in the Valencia region of Spain until about fifty years ago. Analyses of historical sources that emphasise the noble spirituality of the vetlatori dance are shown to be based on romantic views of traditional culture and emotions related to the loss of an infant, rather than on authentic information. Ethnographic and ethnomusicological data are presented to illustrate that the music and dances performed during the vetlatori dance were meant for entertainment rather than for spiritual impact. Recourse is also had to oral sources, particularly interviews carried out in the 1960s and 1980s with former infant wake participants who experienced the vetlatori dance, and who confirmed the popular nature of the music, song, and dances that were performed. Analysis of written sources and of the choreographic and musical characteristics of the dance also shows that the kind of music performed was typical of festive celebration in the Valencia region. Functional outcomes for such wakes are also proposed.

General Principles of EU Law: The Ghost in the Platonic Heaven in Need of Conceptual Clarification. Pittsburgh Papers on the European Union Vol. 2, 2013

General principles are en vogue in EU law – and in need of conceptual clarification. A closer look at several concepts of principle in legal philosophy and legal theory sheds light upon the concept of general principles in EU law. A distinction between an aprioristic model of principle and a model of principle informed by legal positivism may contribute to clarifying the genesis of a (general) principle in EU law, as well as its nature and functions. This paper demonstrates that an evolution has taken place from a reliance on seemingly natural law inspired reflections of general principles via the desperate search to ground general principles in various kinds of sources based on a more or less sound methodology towards an increasing reliance on strictly positivistic approaches. Against this backdrop, general principles are likely to lose significance where there are other norms while retaining an important yet uncontrollable role where the traditional canon of sources is silent.

A holy, sacred, and divine roll and book from the Lord God of Heaven, to the inhabitants of earth : revealed in the United Society at New Lebanon, County of Columbia, State of New-York, United States of America : read and understand all ye in mortal clay : in two parts /

Part I: vii, 222, [4] p.; part II: [4], 223-402, [4] p.

David in Heaven & other poems /

Mode of access: Internet.

Laughter in heaven

Mode of access: Internet.

Steps towards Heaven ; or, Religion in common life : a series of lay sermons for converts in the great awakening /

Bound in blindstamped brown cloth.

No featherbed to heaven; a biography of Michael Wigglesworth, 1631-1705.

Mode of access: Internet.

The tree of heaven /

The carpet of Belshazzar -- The sign of Venus -- The case of Mr.Helmer -- The tree of dreams -- The bridal pair -- Excuria -- The golden pool--Out of the depths -- The swastika -- The ghost of chance.

The Egyptian heaven and hell,

Series title also at head of t.-p.

From Heaven to New York: or, The good hearts and the brown stone fronts. A fact founded on a fancy.

Mode of access: Internet.

The company of heaven /

Poems.

The daughter of heaven,

Translation of La fille du ciel: drame chinois, par Judith Gautier et Pierre Loti.

The New Jerusalem and its heavenly doctrine : as learned from Heaven : to which is premised some information about the new Heaven and new earth /

Includes index.

Thian ti hwui. The Hung-league, or Heaven-earth-league, a secret society with the Chinese in China and India,

Part of plates are photostat replacements of originals.

Suddenly ... from heaven; a history of the Assemblies of God.

Includes bibliography.