Dancing is certainly fun. It's in fact another way of relieving stress and forgetting about all the worries. However, if you dance uncontrollably non-stop, then that would be a different story. Imagine your body dancing and moving against your will for days, or even forever, that you'll end up crying and begging for it to stop? I guess you'll never love dancing the same way again.
In July of 1518, Frau Troffea, a local woman in the city of Strasbourg began dancing for no evident reason. She comes dancing out of her home, down the city roads. There was no music and her face shows no expression. She seemed out of control and cannot stop herself from dancing. But not long after Troffea started her dancing, a neighbor participates. And then another. Then the Dancing Plague of 1518 had begun. When the incredible dancing disease of 1518 finished with Strasbourg in mid-August, around 400 individuals had danced themselves to death. The incident stays a matter of guess right until the present time, however, clinical specialists have a really clear thought about what caused this plague. Clinical and city specialists were brought in once some of the dancers started dying from heart failures, fatigue, and strokes. Oddly enough, these men accepted that the remedy for the dancing was really dancing. So they raised a wooden stage for the dancers and musicians were brought in.
This all seems like some old-fashioned piece of legends. Nonetheless, the dancing disease of 1518 is obviously recorded in clinical, community, and religious notes of the time. One of those modern researchers' speculations proposes that the dancers were victims of widespread hysteria. These are occasions when more than one individual accepts they are burdened by an identical disease which frequently happens during seasons of extreme stress inside the influenced local area.
The Strasbourg incident happened during a period of widespread starvation, malnutrition, and arising deaths. Moreover, a well-known incident that was also of widespread panic happened in 1962's "The Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic" which affected 1000 people in Tanzania. Their second theory was the condition called Ergotism, which happens when grains of rye were attacked by a particular mold. Though the movements of Strasbourg's dancers look significantly more like traditional dancing than seizures, they say that eating the contaminated rye can prompt seizures,
Now, what's your take about this dancing plague? Do you believe it's just another account explainable by science, or could it be, like what the elders thought, was a form of demonic possession? Let your thoughts be heard, folks.
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