Keep On Moving: The Bizarre Trip The Low-Cal Fantastic Toe Epidemic Of Summertime 1518

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And the headline storey from The Guardian:

Five centuries ago, the world’s longest rave took house inwards Strasbourg – a ‘plague’ of dancing that was fatal for some. What caused it? Art, poesy too music of the fourth dimension tin furnish closed to clues

It started amongst only a few people dancing outdoors inwards the summertime heat. Arms flailing, bodies swaying too clothe soaked amongst sweat, they danced through the nighttime too into the side past times side day. Seldom stopping to swallow or drink, too seemingly oblivious to mounting fatigue too the hurting of bruised feet, they were nevertheless going days later. By the fourth dimension the government intervened, hundreds to a greater extent than were dancing inwards the same frenetic fashion.

But this was non ane of those 80s raves that began inwards a remote layby too ended inwards a soiled field. Rather, it’s ane of the oddest epidemics to hold upward recorded inwards basis history. And it happened 500 years agone this summertime inwards the French metropolis of Strasbourg. It was there, over the course of report of 3 roasting-hot months inwards 1518, that several hundred people developed a compulsion to dance. The dancing went on too on until – to the horror of the crowds who gathered to picket – closed to of them collapsed too perished on the spot. Just what was happening?

According to an delineate of piece of job concern human relationship written inwards the 1530s past times the irascible but vivid physician Paracelsus, the “dancing plague of Strasbourg” began inwards mid-July 1518, when a solitary adult woman stepped exterior her menage too jigged for several days on end. Within a week, dozens to a greater extent than had been seized past times the same irresistible urge.

The rich burghers who ran the metropolis were non amused....MUCH MORE

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