In the summer of 1518, dozens of people in Strasbourg suddenly began dancing uncontrollably—and couldn’t stop. Known as the ...

Wikimedia CommonsThe dancing plague of 1518 may have caused the deaths of more than 100 people in modern-day France who simply could not stop moving for days or even weeks on end. No one knows ...

It was a dance epidemic, and no one had an explanation for it. One local physician was quite certain that the victims had “hot blood” and suggested the only cure was for the dancers to gyrate ...

Serfs, nobles, men, women, old and young—all took part in the “dancing plague” of Aachen. Some took up instruments like the stringed vielle, pipes or drums. As sociologist Robert Bartholomew ...

Writing for the British Psychological Society (BPS), Walker reported that there's little doubt that in both 1374 and 1518, there were outbreaks of what has come to be known as "dancing plague ...

In 1518, a 'dance plague' saw citizens of French city Strasbourg reportedly dancing for days on end. It's a bizarre event that grips artists to this day, writes Rosalind Jana.

In the summer of 1518, a dancing plague descended on the streets of Strasbourg in what was then the Holy Roman Empire. The afflicted took to the streets, dancing continuously for many days and nights.