This week Katie explores the strange, terrifying, and seemingly inexplicable Dancing Plague of 1518.  

• Bali Trance Dance
• "The Dancing Plague: The Strange, True Story of an Extraordinary Illness" by John Waller
• The history of ergot of rye (Claviceps purpurea) I: from antiquity to 1900 - PubMed
• What was the dancing plague of 1518? by Evan Andrews, HISTORY
• St. Vitus - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online
• Detroit Institute of Arts Museum, Pieter Bruegel Collection
• "The people who 'danced themselves to death'" By Rosalind Jana 12th May 2022, BBC Culture
• "Divine Punishment or Disease? Medieval and Early Modern Approaches to the 1518 Strasbourg Dancing Plague" by Lynneth J. Miller, Dance Research Volume 35, Issue 2, November, 2017
• "A Strange Case of Dancing Mania Struck Germany Six Centuries Ago Today" By Maris Fessenden, Smithsonian Magazine
• Keep on moving: the bizarre dance epidemic of summer 1518 | Dance | The Guardian
• The Dancing Plague of 1518 By Ned Pennant-Rea, The Public Domain Review

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Artwork: Brittany Schall

Music: "Danse Macabre" by Camille Saint-Saens, performed by Kevin MacLeod

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