The Dancing Plague of 1518

Learned a new word today "choreomaniac".

Back in 1518 in Strasbourg, people actually danced themselves to death. [Hmmmmm - is Silly, Random & Fun really where I should be posting this?]

"In full view of the public, this is the apogee of the choreomania that tormented Strasbourg for a midsummer month in 1518. Also known as the “dancing plague”, it was the most fatal and best documented of the more than ten such contagions which had broken out along the Rhine and Moselle rivers since 1374. "

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