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The Dancing Plague of 1518: When a City Danced Itself to Exhaustion

The Dancing Plague of 1518: When a City Danced Itself to Exhaustion

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In July 1518, a woman named Frau Troffea began dancing fervently in a Strasbourg street. She couldn't stop. Within a week, hundreds had joined her, dancing for days without rest, some collapsing from heart attacks or stroke. The authorities prescribed *more* dancing. What caused this bizarre, deadly epidemic of movement? We separate medieval superstition from modern medicine, examining theories from mass psychogenic illness and ergot fungus poisoning to extreme societal stress. This isn't just a historical oddity; it's a profound window into the powerful, terrifying connection between mind and body, and how collective trauma can manifest in the most physical way imaginable.
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