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How Hundreds Danced Themselves to Death | Dancing Plague
Red Web
The Wound Theory of the Zombies
In real life, Cordysepts will puppeteer different animals and insects. Maybe these dancers were biting each other. You ever been bitten and then suddenly you want to dance? Could be a could be a terrifying theory because the quarter set theory in the show stems from something that actually exists. This area historically was considered highly superstitious. And once the dancing plague occurs, it is said perhaps this was a cultural contagion element rather than a food based or anything else. But there are many superstitious cultures over time and not all of them have just had dancing outbreaks. So it could be a conflation of few of the ingredients here as always.
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