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How Hundreds Danced Themselves to Death | Dancing Plague

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The Strange Epidemic of Dance

Dancing may have been Miss Trophy's favorite drug. She danced for a period of time, collapsed and then began dancing again. The city archives in Strasbourg contain information on this situation after 500 years. Dancers reportedly had no control over their movement and danced themselves to exhaustion and collapse.

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