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
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