The Dancing Plague of 1518 in Strasbourg, where 400 people danced uncontrollably for months until exhaustion, stroke, or heart attack, demonstrates how mass psychogenic illness—a stress-induced trance triggered by environmental factors like famine and disease—can cause collective behavioral phenomena without any infectious agent, as confirmed by historian John Waller's 2008 study.
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The Dancing Plague of 1518 — 400 people danced themselves to death in Strasbourg | True Freaky FactsAjouté :
In 1518, a woman started dancing and couldn't [music] stop. History is freaky. Her name was Frau Troffea. She danced for 6 days straight [music] in the streets of Strasbourg in the Holy Roman Empire.
She collapsed from exhaustion, but her feet kept moving.
Within a month, 400 people had joined her. They danced until their hearts gave out.
City officials thought they knew the cure.
They believed the dancers needed to get the frenzy out of their systems.
So, they hired musicians.
Imagine calling an ambulance and they show up with a DJ. The city literally built a stage and paid for a band to play day and night. Historian John Waller studied the [music] outbreak in 2008 and concluded it was mass psychogenic illness. A stress-induced trance triggered by years of famine [music] and disease. The plague finally ended in September.
Survivors were carted to a mountaintop shrine and forced to pray for forgiveness.
You could be next.
Under enough pressure, your brain can hijack your body.
400 people danced themselves to exhaustion, stroke, [music] and heart attack. And the official cure was more music. Sometimes the strangest epidemics leave no [music] virus behind.
Just a mystery carved into the cobblestones. Now you know.
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