The Dancing Plague of 1518: Not Your Average Footloose

This week, Liz and Dakota look at an interesting epidemic from history, you know, the one where the people of Strasbourg just couldn’t stop dancing?  Never heard of it?  Well stay tuned to hear all about dancing, curses, possession, and how the only cure for dancing, is, well, more dancing. 

Episode Notes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitus

https://grimmagazine.com/the-unexplained/2017/dancing-plague-of-1518/

https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-dancing-plague-of-1518

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_plague_of_1518

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20161028-the-town-the-nearly-danced-itself-to-death

https://www.britannica.com/event/dancing-plague-of-1518

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/jul/05/bizarre-dance-epidemic-of-summer-1518-strasbourg

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.