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How Hundreds Danced Themselves to Death | Dancing Plague

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In the early 1500s, a woman in what is now known as modern day France began dancing uncontrollably. Within the span of a month, hundreds of people had joined her and were physically unable to stop themselves from dancing. Today, we look at the baffling mystery of the dancing plague of 1518.

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