The Dancing Plague

It’s a plague! With dancing! A dancing plague! Like, literally. There once was a town where a plague wiped out a bunch of the residents... by making them dance until they died. (Count how many dancing references Jacob manages to squeeze into this one - it’s truly something to behold.)

Story starts at approx 17:47

Some good, solid articles to get you started if you want to know more:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20161028-the-town-the-nearly-danced-itself-to-death

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/jul/05/bizarre-dance-epidemic-of-summer-1518-strasbourg

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-dancing-plague-of-1518

Puppet History episode that made Jacob briefly obsessed with the story: https://youtu.be/2MZZrDA-I4M

The book Jacob did not read is by a chap called John Waller - if you want to read it buy it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1848310536/ref=nosim?tag=thepubdomrev-20

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