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Trail Off Tuesdays: The Dancing Plague of 1518
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A city built on stone and certainty watched its streets turn into a stage. In the hot summer of 1518, a woman in Strasbourg began to dance, mechanical, relentless, and impossible to stop, and within weeks hundreds followed, their feet torn and faces locked in pain. We trace how a single, baffling act became a public crisis, and why officials, doctors, and priests each tried to tame it with wildly different tools.
If strange history, medical mysteries, and cultural psychology fascinate you, press play and wander the stranger paths of the past with us. If this story moved you, subscribe, share with a curious friend, and leave a review to help others find the show.
Chapters
1. Halloween Set-Up And Premise (00:00:00)
2. The First Dancer Appears (00:00:31)
3. Authorities Intervene And The Plague Spreads (00:02:38)
4. Medieval Medicine And The Hot Blood Cure (00:04:10)
5. Collapse, Panic, And Return To Saint Vitis (00:06:13)
6. What Caused The Dancing Plague (00:06:55)
7. Mass Psychogenic Illness And Context (00:09:30)
8. Closing And Listener Invitation (00:11:34)
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