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How Hundreds Danced Themselves to Death | Dancing Plague

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The Contagious Illness Checkbox

The idea that it's like a cult behind it all is possible, but there's a few questions that kind of were raised in my mind. Obviously the idea of motive, but it also doesn't mesh super well with a lot of broadly accepted checklists for cults. You have ritualistic characteristics, i.e. the dancing and the non-stop dancing. And some of the things that don't necessarily stand out here are a worshiped leader or a worshiped anything.

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