Wednesday, July 18, 2018

The Dancing Plague of 1518

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500 years ago this month, a strange mania seized the city of Strasbourg. Citizens by the hundreds became compelled to dance, seemingly for no reason — jigging trance-like for days, until unconsciousness or, in some cases, death.












Read about it here:
 https://publicdomainreview.org/2018/07/10/the-dancing-plague-of-1518/
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