https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danci ng_Plague_of_1518 >ev

they got creative

Ergotism

St. Anthony's Fire

it's probably bullshit
most historical accounts written before the 19th century are probably mostly bullshit

>>1784985
>Historical documents, including "physician notes, cathedral sermons, local and regional chronicles, and even notes issued by the Strasbourg city council" are clear that the victims danced.[1] It is not known why these people danced, Most even to their deaths.

>>1784940
As the dancing plague worsened, concerned nobles sought the advice of local physicians, who ruled out astrological and supernatural causes, instead announcing that the plague was a "natural disease" caused by "hot blood and restless feet". However, instead of prescribing bleeding, authorities encouraged more dancing, in part by opening two guildhalls and a grain market, and even constructing a wooden stage to hold a dance off

Disco inferno.

>>1784940
in times of intense stress and societal upheaval people do really weird shit. It wasn't really a plague, but a religious movement of sorts. sort of the Cult of Fuck-IT you see with a lot of people taken to the extreme. this happened a lot in the 1300s too, there were at least two similar movements that I cannot remember off the top of my head, but they were in response to catholicism sucking dick and people not having any food

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche

>>1785588
god, why does everything this guy say sound so fucking gay?

>>1785601
God, why does everything you say sound so fucking gay?

>>1785601
Nietzsche was the Linkin Park of the 19th century.

>>1784940

GET DOWN