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What Caused the Dancing Plague of 1518?
š” The Answer
- In July 1518, a woman named Frau Troffea began dancing uncontrollably.
- Within a week, dozens of others joined in the compulsive dancing epidemic.
- Some individuals danced until they collapsed from exhaustion or died.
- Modern theories suggest mass psychogenic illness as the likely cause.
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