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The "Chicken Dance" is an oom-pah song composed by a Swiss accordion (Handharmonika) player Werner Thomas from Davos, Switzerland in the 1950s and the corresponding fad dance.This is not the same dance as "The Chicken" popular in American rhythm and blues in the 1950s, in which the dancers flapped their arms and kicked back their feet in an imitation of a chicken.
Chicken dance history
In a letter to the sheriff's office, he detailed some of the rituals and activities he witnessed: people blowing sage smoke in his face while 50 or so naked men danced around candles; men sitting naked in a circle discussing their sexual histories while passing a wooden dildo called "The Cock"; naked men beating cooked chickens with a hammer.
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