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Ashura processions are usually dramatic affairs, with chanters singing elegies or dirges dedicated to Hussein, while audience members beat their chests and engage in displays of mourning.
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In Berceuse Parish, there are so many elegies.
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Small white lights shine through the fabric to guide your taps.
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Return your right hand to the floor and repeat on the other side (this time, left hand taps right shoulder).
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Ashura processions are usually dramatic affairs, with chanters singing elegies or dirges dedicated to Hussein, while audience members beat their chests and engage in displays of mourning.
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The pioneering alt-country band returns with its first album in 30 years—a set of cryptic, languid dirges that feels defiantly out-of-time.
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“Elegiacs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elegiacs. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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