S3 Ep8: Get Down with the Sickness, It’s Societal Mania!
Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
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The Dance Sickness
As many as 15 people a day dropped dead from sheer exhaustion. The afflicted were, "...given small crosses and red shoes on the uppers and soles of which crosses had been drawn with consecrated oil," according to Sebastian Brant. Saint Vitus forgave the sinners and cured them of the dancing curse he himself had set upon them for reasons unknown.
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