- Dancing mania - Wikipedia
Dancing mania (also known as dancing plague, choreomania, St John's Dance, tarantism and St Vitus' Dance) was a social phenomenon that may have had biological causes, which occurred primarily in mainland Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries It involved groups of people dancing erratically, sometimes thousands at a time
- Dancing plague of 1518 | Facts Theories | Britannica
dancing plague of 1518, event in which hundreds of citizens of Strasbourg (then a free city within the Holy Roman Empire, now in France) danced uncontrollably and apparently unwillingly for days on end; the mania lasted for about two months before ending as mysteriously as it began
- 5 Facts about Medieval ‘Dancing Mania’ - History Hit
This extraordinary phenomenon of uncontrollable dancing mania striking a city was recorded numerous times in the Middle Ages Though an outbreak of uncontrollable dancing sounds rather comical and like something you might see on a night out, it was anything but
- What Was the Dancing Plague of 1518? - HISTORY
In July 1518, residents of the city of Strasbourg (then part of the Holy Roman Empire) were struck by a sudden and seemingly uncontrollable urge to dance
- A forgotten plague: making sense of dancing mania
Introduction: On Christmas Eve in 1021, 18 people gathered outside a church in the German town of Kölbigk and danced with wild abandon The priest, unable to perform Mass because of the irreverent din from outside, ordered them to stop Ignoring him, they held hands and danced a “ring dance of sin”, clapping, leaping, and chanting in unison
- The mystery of the dancing plague of 1518 - Sky HISTORY
Dancing mania hit the town of Augsburg in 1381, and in 1428 the plague reached Switzerland with outbreaks in Zurich and Schaffhausen that claimed the life of a monk The plague of 1518 was one of the biggest outbreaks ever recorded, and its cause has been debated for centuries
- Dancing plague of 1518 - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The dancing plague (or dance epidemic) of 1518 was a massive case of dancing mania that happened in Strasbourg, Alsace (now modern-day France), in the Holy Roman Empire In July of 1518, somewhere between 50 and 400 people took to dancing for days
- Boogie fever: A look at the dancing mania epidemics of the Middle Ages
In the autumn of 1518, Strasbourg, a prominent trading city on the banks of the Rhine River, was alive with the sound of dancing Musicians played day and night; a new stage was constructed across from the market; and over 400 people — all stricken by the dancing mania plaguing the city — whirled, twirled, and waltzed uncontrollably, some
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