Three women affected by the Dancing Plague. Engraving by Hendrik Hondius. The Dancing Plague of 1518
Three women affected by the Dancing Plague. Engraving by Hendrik Hondius.The Dancing Plague of 1518 was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg (then part of the Holy Roman Empire) in July 1518. Numerous people took to dancing for days without rest, and, over the period of about one month, some of the people died from heart attack, stroke, or exhaustion. -- source link
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