The Dancing Plague of 1518

26/01/2021 12 min
The Dancing Plague of 1518

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Episode Synopsis

The dancing plague (or dance epidemic) of 1518 was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace (now modern-day France), in the Holy Roman Empire in July 1518. Somewhere between 50 and 400 people took to dancing for days.

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