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Jun 16, 2020 1 hr 17 min

The Dancing Plague

from Viral Load Hosted by Brett Bayles, professor / Andy Pupa, not a professor

Send us Fan Mail Dance, dance, dance until you die! No this isn't Hocus Pocus, this is 1518 and the dancing plague has overtaken Strasbourg. What caused people to dance until their feet bled and their bones were exposed? Tune into this episode of viral load to find out. . . . . Sources https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/jul/05/bizarre-dance-epidemic-of-summer-1518-strasbourg https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20161028-the-town-the-nearly-danced-itself-to-death https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS014067360960386X/fulltext https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-22/edition-7/dancing-plagues-and-mass-hysteria https://museumhack.com/dancing-plague/ Waller, John (2008). A Time to Dance, A Time to Die: The Extraordinary Story of the Dancing Plague of 1518. Thriplow: Icon Books Get well soon - Jennifer Wright

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Send us Fan Mail Dance, dance, dance until you die! No this isn't Hocus Pocus, this is 1518 and the dancing plague has overtaken Strasbourg. What caused people to dance until their feet bled and their bones were exposed? Tune into this episode of viral load to find out. . . . . Sources https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/jul/05/bizarre-dance-epidemic-of-summer-1518-strasbourghttps://www.bbc.com/future/article/20161028-the-town-the-nearly-danced-itself-to-deathhttps://www.thelancet....

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