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Podcast: Folk Brothers Podcast
Episode:

The Dancing Plague of 1518
Category: Music
Duration: 00:35:11
Publish Date: 2016-04-16 10:29:15
Description:

Imagine yourself as a peasant in the early 1500’s, mucking the fields in order to provide for your family.  Floods, famine, and disease ravage your town year after year.  When trouble strikes Strasbourg, France the townsfolk find a creative way to handle the problem: Dancing.  But when things get out of hand, the town turns not to priests and doctors but instead to unusual methods.

Did this really happen?  Listen in as Jack and Sam explore all that is the Dancing Plague of 1518.
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