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Feb. 26 The Whirling Dervishes Custom of promenading before rite of rapid whirling is centuries old, like the strange brotherhood itself. Tall flowerpot caps of camel wool, symbolize dervishes tombstones. When whirling dervishes cast of the mortal garments of their dark capes before rite begins, it represents their throwing off the fetters of mortality
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Begins Brotherhood Capes Centuries Custom Dervishes Fetters Flowerpot Garments Itself Mortal Mortality Promenading Rapid Represents Rite Symbolize Tombstones Whirling
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