Dance epidemics
Dance epidemics
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In antiquity, Europe suffered from many epidemics, but there was a very particular one that was well known and documented by multiple sources because it spread through several countries and lasted for years, one of them is known as the dance of San Juan, in July 1374 a A group of men and women were seen dancing hand in hand in a wheel dance at the village on Chapel Island on the German-French border.
Italy had its own brand of dancing epidemic, it's called tarantism, it's supposed to occur when someone is bitten or stung by an arachnid such as a tarantula or scorpion and manifests itself with tremors in the extremities that are alleviated only by dancing, dancing and drinking large amounts of wine.
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The last great dance epidemic in Europe happened in July 1518, it is known as the dance plague of San Vito and it is the only one where there is a record of patient zero, it was a woman named Trofea, this woman began to dance from the nothing on the streets of present-day Strasbourg France, and a week later more than 20 people had already joined him.
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The “solutions” were not sensible at all, they ranged from promoting dancing to banning music, but people continued to dance even with injured feet until some cardiac arrest victims collapsed, then they began massing the infected to dedicated Saint Vitus, a Sicilian child martyr who was believed to protect people from dancing epidemics that were apparently more recurrent than the plague and holy remedy, literally, little by little people were relieved through religious suggestion and mass exorcisms.
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This is a somewhat comical and unusual story. All these people were intoxicated with basically a bread-derived form of lsd, which is a potent mind-altering substance. Too bad people got hurt :(
That's right, it led them to hallucinations that affected them until they agonized and died, luckily medicine has advanced many.
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