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For the Tartar revival, see S. Brobovnikov, "Moslems in Russia," The Moslem World, January, 1911; Févret, "Les Tatars de Crimée," Revue du Monde musulman, August, 1907; A. Le Chatelier, "Les Musulmans russes," Revue du Monde musulman, December, 1906; Fr. von Mackay, "Die Erweckung Russlands asiatischen Völkerschaften," Deutsche Rundschau, March, 1918; Arminius Vambéry, Western Culture in Eastern Lands; H. Williams, "The Russian Mohammedans," Russian Review, February, 1914; "X," "Le Pan-Islamisme et le Pan-Turquisme," Revue du Monde musulman, March, 1913.
He goes on to draw attention to the practice in Reideberg, bei Halle, where, after burying a straw figure, called the Old Man, the villagers dance round the May-Pole, and he suggests that the 'Old Man' represents the defunct Vegetation Spirit, the May Tree, that Spirit resuscitated, and refers in this connection to the "durchaus verwandten Asiatischen Gebrauchen des Attis, und Adonis-Kultus."
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