Dance plagues were a very real thing, where people danced themselves to death in the streets of Europe. Learn the stories behind them with Scoot as Red takes us on a journey to medieval Europe.

Music is thanks to the incredibly talented and amazing Teresa Suydam!!

Sources:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/strange-case-dancing-mania-struck-germany-six-centuries-ago-today-180959549/

https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(09)60386-X/fulltext

https://bigthink.com/the-past/dancing-plague-middle-ages/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_mania

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_plague_of_1518

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-dancing-plague-of-1518/

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