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How Hundreds Danced Themselves to Death | Dancing Plague

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The Placebo Effect of the Dance Plague

There have been dancing plagues referenced elsewhere in time and in the world, but also like, I believe downriver just at another town nearby. The knowledge of this dance is what then stokes the flames of the dance within the person. So religious figures in the community believe that the dancers were actually overcome by demonic possession.

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