Ep.12 The Dancing Plague

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Backup episode alert! This episode Harlie grooves through the mystery of the Dancing Plague. In the summer of 1518, the streets of Strasbourg erupted into a dance off? Hundreds of people moved uncontrollably for days, some until death, in what became one of history’s strangest epidemics. Was it a curse? The work of the Devil? A hallucinogenic fungus? Or a collective breakdown? Want to connect? Check us out on Instagram @should_you_need_us_podcast or email us at [email protected]

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