Also called 'choreomania,' the first outbreak took place in 1374, in villages located along the Rhine River, where “hundreds of people were seized by an agonizing compulsion to dance.”
Writing for the British Psychological Society , Walkerthat there’s little doubt that in both 1374 and 1518, there were outbreaks of what has come to be known as “dancing plague,” but more accurately called episodes of mass psychogenic illness .
Then again in 1518, it “reappeared, explosively, in the city of Strasbourg in 1518. Chronicles indicate that it then consumed about 400 men, women and children, causing dozens of deaths.” And the time period immediately preceding the dancing outbreaks were full of psychological stress — namely catastrophic flooding of the Rhine in 1374, and the decade leading up to the 1518 outbreak saw famine, freezing temperatures, and raging outbreaks of leprosy, the plague, and syphilis.
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