The Dancing Plague of 1518

 The 1518 Dancing Plague 

During 1518 the possible first ever unexplained event occurred. People in Strasbourgh met a terrible fate.. The inability to stop dancing. It's said that it all started when a woman known as Frau Troffea went into the middle of the street and started dancing for days and days upon end. In August, around 400 people had been effected by this plague, dancing indefinitely. This wasn't typical dancing however, the people effected would quite literally dance themselves to near death. The townspeople noticed this was bad and decided to make a stage and to play music to hopefully get them to stop. This had no affect overall and the plague finally ended in September. Several other occasions of similar events occurred but none were as drastic and deadly as The Dancing Plague of 1518. In total, there were around 400 casualties from this supposed mass hysteria event.

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