For two months in the summer of 1518, some 400 residents of the city of Strasbourg in modern-day France fell victim to a disturbing epidemic that caused them to dance against their will. As if in ...

ON A SUMMER’S day in 1518, a woman walked out of her house in Strasbourg and started to dance energetically in the street. Apart from stolen moments for sleep, she did not stop for six days ...

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The Dancing plague of 1518 was kicked of by a woman and joined by 400 victim who danced, twirled and shook uncontrollably for two months. Is the new 'Dinga Dinga' virus ...

For example, the authors of this study investigate what may have caused the crazy dancing "epidemic" of 1518 in Strasbourg: "Some time in mid-July 1518 a lone woman stepped into one of its narrow ...

The year was 1518. It was July. On a city street of Strasbourg, France, a woman by the name of Frau Troffea began to dance. It was strange for a woman to begin dancing, alone, in public. What was e… ...

You think this pandemic thingie we’re going through is deadly? At least unpleasant? Hey, you’ve come here to this tower of truth to learn the little-known stuff that will make you completely ...

One day in 1518, a woman started to dance in Strasbourg city square; soon, hundreds more joined her under the summer sun. The dancing went on for weeks, to the ire of the authorities. By some ...

For those who were willing to come out on Thursday for a free local show at the Baby Bar, Outercourse and the Dancing Plague of 1518 kicked off their upcoming four-show tour last night, and it was ...