Shamia e Beqarit is an Albanian traditional dance and ritual, always practiced in the Albanian wedding, as the final dance, performed by the bride and the groom with the ritual burning of the handkerchief (shamia) of the bachelor (beqarit).
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Shamia e Beqarit is an Albanian traditional dance and ritual, always practiced in the Albanian wedding, as the final dance, performed by the bride and the groom with the ritual burning of the handkerchief (shamia) of the bachelor (beqarit).
01 · What it is
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02 · Where & name
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Chapter Takeaways
Accompanying songThe following song accompanies the dance and whole performance, sung by participants of the wedding:
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What is Shamia e Beqarit in plain words?
Shamia e Beqarit is an Albanian traditional dance and ritual, always practiced in the Albanian wedding, as the final dance, performed by the bride and the groom with the ritual burning of the handkerchief (shamia) of the bachelor (beqarit).
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Shamia e Beqarit is an Albanian traditional dance and ritual, always practiced in the Albanian wedding, as the final dance, performed by the bride and the groom with the ritual burning of the handkerchief (shamia) of the bachelor (beqarit). 1
Accompanying song
The following song accompanies the dance and whole performance, sung by participants of the wedding: 1
The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Shamia e Beqarit”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1
Shamia e Beqarit is Albanian traditional dance, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2