Strasbourg's Mysterious Dancing Epidemic: Hundreds Dance to Exhaustion
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Strasbourg's Mysterious Dancing Epidemic: Hundreds Dance to Exhaustion

June 23rd - The Dancing Plague of 1518

On this day in 1518, a bizarre and unexplained phenomenon began in Strasbourg, France. A woman named Frau Troffea stepped into the streets and started dancing fervently. She continued to dance for hours on end, seemingly unable to stop. Within a week, dozens more had joined her, and by the end of the month, the streets were filled with hundreds of people dancing uncontrollably.

The dancing plague, as it came to be known, lasted for several months. People danced day and night, some until they collapsed from exhaustion, suffered heart attacks, strokes, or even died. The authorities, at a loss for what to do, tried various remedies, including hiring musicians to play for the dancers, believing that the plague was caused by "hot blood" and that dancing would help them cool down.

Theories about the cause of the dancing plague abound, but none have been proven conclusively. Some experts suggest that the dancers were victims of mass hysteria or a form of collective stress-induced psychosis. Others propose that the dancers might have ingested ergot, a fungus that grows on rye and can cause hallucinations and convulsions.

However, the true cause of the dancing plague remains a mystery. It's an eerie reminder of how little we understand about the human mind and the power of social contagion. The thought of hundreds of people dancing uncontrollably for days on end, unable to stop even as their bodies gave out, is both fascinating and deeply unsettling.

The dancing plague of 1518 remains one of history's most perplexing and disturbing cases of unexplained phenomena, a reminder of the strange and inexplicable things that can happen when human behavior goes awry.
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