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24th June 1374: Dance Plague breaks out in Aachen, Germany
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2018-06-23 21:05:51
Description: On the 24th June 1374, people in Aachen in Germany suddenly and mysteriously began dancing in the streets and didn’t stop for many weeks. Known variously as St John's Dance, St. Vitus' Dance, or the ‘dancing plague’, the occurrence in Aachen was neither the first nor the last – but is one of the best documented. Many hundreds of people were affected by the dance mania, which involved erratic movements and often involuntary shouts and screams. Of those afflicted many would continue to dance until they dropped to the floor of exhaustion, foaming at the mouth and twitching their limbs ...
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