THE DANCING PLAGUE OF 1518: WHEN 400 PEOPLE DANCED UNTIL THEY DIED
Episode 6 | History's Mysteries — Unexplained Events
In this Mystery episode we focus on the Dancing Plague of 1518 — the event where a woman in Strasbourg began dancing in the street and couldn't stop, approximately 400 people joined her within a month, some danced for days without rest, several died, and the city hired musicians to help, which made it worse.
This episode covers the civic records, the physician reports, the church documents, the mass psychogenic illness hypothesis and what it actually means, the ergotism theory and its problems, and the comparison to documented modern cases…
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