In 1518, Hundreds Of People Couldn't Stop Dancing

In the summer of 1518, people in Strasbourg danced in the streets for days and couldn't stop. Here's why the city's cure made it worse, whether anyone really danced to death, and why historians think it was mass psychogenic illness, which has happened again much more recently. CHAPTERS 0:00 Gus Can't Dance 0:45 Frau Troffea 1:14 It Spreads 1:34 A Terrible Decade 2:08 The Curse 2:36 The Cure 3:30 The U-Turn 3:45 The Shrine 4:06 Did Anyone Die? 4:33 Was It Poison? 5:10 Mass Psychogenic Illness 6:15 Not The Only One 6:41 It Happened Again 7:27 What It Tells Us 7:54 Back to Gus SOURCES Dancing plague of 1518 (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing... What was the dancing plague of 1518? (National Geographic): https://www.nationalgeographic.com/hi... Dancing plagues and mass hysteria, by John Waller (The Psychologist, BPS): https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/d... Tanganyika laughter epidemic (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangany... For entertainment and education, not medical advice.