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S3 Ep8: Get Down with the Sickness, It’s Societal Mania!

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

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The Dance of Satan

In 1518, a woman in Alsace began to dance without any musical accompaniment and would not stop. Shey says her husband was like bitter, mind-life, stop and mid to dancing. In his 1494 best-selling book Ship of Fools, humanist cleric and satirist Sebastian Brandt wrote this little bop.

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