The Anxiety Encyclopedia

75. D is for Dancing Plague

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Katharine tells Lorien about the original boogie fever.


Sources:

  •  https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-dancing-plague-of-1518
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_plague_of_1518
  • https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220512-the-people-who-danced-themselves-to-death
  •  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysteria
  •  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_neuron
  •  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_psychogenic_illness 
  •  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanganyika_laughter_epidemic
  •  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC543940/
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