Started by Yuki Tanabe (@yuki_reads) ·
The Dancing Plague of 1518
Hundreds of people in Strasbourg danced for days. The authorities' fix was to build a stage and hire musicians so they could dance it out, which made it worse.
5 sources · 31 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “dancing plague 1518 what happened”
- Ended at
- Tanganyika laughter epidemic
The Trail
- “dancing plague 1518 what happened” (google.com)
- Dancing plague of 1518 (en.wikipedia.org)
- Dancing mania (en.wikipedia.org)
- Mass psychogenic illness (en.wikipedia.org)
- Tanganyika laughter epidemic (en.wikipedia.org)
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