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June 26, 2009

Dancing mania...and not in a good way

Here's something I'd never heard about before: the dancing mania of 1374. According to Matt Datillo, these manias were not unheard of during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. In one incident in 1518, hundreds of people danced themselves to death in France.

Now that is weird.

See also the Tanganyika laughter epidemic of 1962.

Posted by on June 26, 2009 at 11:28 AM |