
How Hundreds Danced Themselves to Death | Dancing Plague
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The Dance Plague
There were smaller outbreaks of the dancing plague in 1374 and 1463. The one we're talking about was kind of the quintessential one in 1518. It just seems that people were seized with a manic desire to dance, which is pretty much it. That's all we really know is that they just wanted to dance.
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