Dancing Until You Drop

A few times through history a large crowd of people stopped everything they were doing and just started dancing... Sometimes until the dancing resulted in serious injury. Why did they do this? We explore the known and unknown about the dancing plagues!


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Links:

1. https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(09)60386-X/fulltext
2. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/strange-case-dancing-mania-struck-germany-six-centuries-ago-today-180959549/
3. https://familydoctor.org/condition/mass-psychogenic-illness/#:~:text=What%20is%20mass%20psychogenic%20illness,or%20a%20toxin%20(poison).
4. https://www.verywellmind.com/understanding-groupthink-2671595
5. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0020764018766185
6. https://karger.com/sad/article/5/5/320/291347/Post-Finasteride-Syndrome-An-Induced-Delusional
7. https://www.historyhit.com/1374-dancing-mania-strikes-aachen/

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