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The Dancing Plague of 1518: The Party That Couldn’t Stop


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It started with one woman—and turned into a full-blown plague of nonstop dancing. In 1518, hundreds of people in Strasbourg danced for days without rest… and some danced to death. Was it a curse? LSD bread? Or a case of collective hysteria? Join us as we dive into one of the strangest mass events in history—and try to figure out why an entire town couldn’t stop moving.

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