DANCING PLAGUE 1518 | Most Bizarre plague in the history
The 1518 event was the most thoroughly documented and probably the last of several such outbreaks in Europe, which took place largely between the 10th and 16th centuries.
Mystified by the chaos in the streets, The city councillors consulted local doctors who were with standard medical wisdom at that time, declared that the dancing may be the result of “overheated blood” in the brain.
in 1247 , 200 people are said to have danced impiously on a bridge over the Moselle River in Maastricht until it collapsed.
Likewise, dozens of mediaeval authors recount the terrible compulsion to dance , in 1374, which swept across western Germany, and northeastern France where thousands of people danced in agony for days or weeks, screaming of terrible visions.
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