High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A rain dance is a ceremonial dance performed to try to invoke rain to protect the harvest. Various interpretations of "rain dances" can be found in many agricultural or gardening cultures, from Ancient Egypt to certain Native American tribes. They could still be found in the 20th century Balkans, in a ritual known as Paparuda (Romanian) or Perperuna (Slavic). Julia M. Butree (a wife of Ernest Thompson Seton) in her book, among other Native American dances, describes the "Rain Dance of Zuni. A story from the indigenous peoples of the United States relates how the term "rain dance" came into being.

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