Around 400 people danced for days without rest in Strasbourg, Alsace during the dancing plague of 1518. Over the course of about one month, some of those affected died of heart attack, stroke, or exhaustion.
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“The spectacularity of choreomania is something that's hard to fathom in modern times,” says Kathryn Dickason, a medieval dance scholar who has penned multiple papers on the topic. “What befuddled clergy then, and what still fascinates modern readers today, is that this happened to so many people; that maybe it was contagious. The sheer collectivity of it makes it into a spectacle,” she explains.
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