#Dancing plague of 1518

[beardedmrbean]

[ladiesoftheages]

Friendly reminder that Anne Boleyn was living in France during the Dancing Plague of 1518

[moth-yea]

I bet the Dancing Plague of 1518 was just a stand attack

[glitzydiamondgrl]

Can anyone help me by giving song recommendations to add to this playlist? Cheers.

[lexxieannie]

i love when history repeats itself like in 200 years no one will believe this

[tozettastone]

Do you ever think like in twenty years academics will be looking at twitter with the same attitude of like, "Yeah... actually, we don't really know how the dancing plague of 1518 worked, either, but we think that might also have been an expression of severe stress—"

[alexanderpearce]

PULLING MY HAIR OUT

[letsgethaunted]

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Episode 70: The Dancing Plague of 1518 Photodump

Image 01: Strasbourg , France. 1572. Image 02: In July of 1518 a haunted woman begins to dance in the street. She dances for days days on end with no food or water until she collapses. Anyone who tries to help the woman becomes inflicted with the same uncontrollable urge to dance. A crowd of dancers forms in the street, unable to stop dancing. Image 03: The religious leaders of Strasbourg decide to enlist musicians to play music and aid the people suffering from this “Dancing Plague.” The hope is that the dancers will get it out of their system by dancing the plague out of their bodies. Image 04: This plan obviously backfires. People hear the music and then see the dancers, instantly becoming infected with Dancing Plague. Within weeks hundreds of people are dancing themselves to death. Image 05: St. Vitus is thought to be the culprit of the Dancing Plague. People believe the saint cursed the people of Strasbourg with Dancing Plague. Image 06: St. Vitus’ shrine in a grotto above Saverne. In a desperate move to please St. Vitus, dancers were tied to wagons and brought to this cave to pray to the Saint for mercy. It works! The dancers are cured. Image 07: 8 years after the Dancing Plague of 1518 a physician and alchemist named Paracelsus visits Strasbourg to find out the cause of the plague. He guesses that it’s just a medieval feminist protest. *eyeroll* Image 08: Another viable theory is the dancing was caused by Chorea- a movement disorder that causes involuntary muscle movements. But why would that be contagious? Image 09: Another theory blames the dancing on hallucinations from Ergot - a fungal disease on grain which causes hallucinations and other poison symptoms. However, the symptoms of ergotism make people very sick and would be too severe to allow any dancing while experiencing the illness. What do you think happened?

[poetryfromnowhere]

I simply can’t be the only one who thinks about the medieval times and just go “aahhh, childhood memories” and then immediately think “wtf, I’m not that old”

[writing-prompt-s]

The dancing plague of 1518 returns and through social media the contagion spreads fast and globally. You're one of the few survivors in an apocalyptic wasteland, hiding from the dancing horde.

[lets-do-lesbianisms]

(James had severe adhd and he was bored he dropped random facts. Today he was studying with Sirius, Peter and Remus and got pretty bored and started tapping his pen before saying*

James: Did you know-

Remus: NO!

James:

James: Did u know when was year 1518 in France there was a dancing plague?

*Remus facepalms himself*

Sirius: What even is that?!

James: Yk... like when people danced for days!

*Sirius's eyes lit up as he jumps on the table and starts dancing James quickly joining him*

Sirius: LETS BRING THE DANCING PLAGUE BACK!!

James: YEAHHHH!

*Peter and Remus almost crying*

Peter, Remus: ONE STUDY SESION WE BEG U PLEASE ONE SINGLE HOUR WITHOUT THIS!

[publicdomainreview]

OnThisDay in 1518, in the city of Strasbourg, a woman named Frau Troffea woke to begin the 2nd day of her manic and mysterious dance. Soon she would be joined by hundreds of others, compelled to dance for seemingly no reason at all... https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-dancing-plague-of-1518 #otd

[stupid-starkid-headcannons]

pokey caused the dancing plague of 1518

canon

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 47: Early Modernish and Earlier 2 (Reposted. First Version Had Issues

These Questions are the result of suggestions a the previous iteration.

This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct earlier time grouping. Basically, I'd already moved on to human history, but I'd periodically get a pre-homin suggestion, hence the occasional random item waaay out of it's time period, rather than reopen the category.

In some cases a culture lasted a really long time and I grouped them by whether it was likely the later or earlier grouping made the most sense with the information I had. (Invention ofs tend to fall in an earlier grouping if it's still open. Ones that imply height of or just before something tend to get grouped later, but not always. Sometimes I'll split two different things from the same culture into different polls because they involve separate research goals or the like).

Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration. All cultures and time periods welcome.

[letsgethaunted]

The Dancing Plague of 1518

In the city of Strasbourg, Alsace (modern-day France), a mysterious plague gripped between 50 - 400 townsfolk. This plague was not bacterial or viral, but rather an epidemic of dancing. Beginning with one woman and infecting possibly hundreds of individuals over the course of many days, some danced themselves into a delirium while others danced themselves to death. What could have been the cause for this strange affliction? Join us on this mini episode of Let's Get Haunted and hear Nat tell Aly the story of The Dancing Plague of 1518. Also check out our friends over at Monsters Among Us who we did our first ever promo swap with on this episode! www.monstersamonguspodcast.com

[mistressemmedi]

Is everyone doing ok? I feel like we're one post away from mass hysteria and having a repeat of the dancing plague of 1518 💃🏻🕺🏻