The Curious Case of the Dancing Plague: When an Entire Town Couldn’t Stop Moving
In the sweltering summer of 1518, the city of Strasbourg, then a bustling free imperial city within the Holy Roman Empire, became the stage for one of history’s most bizarre and unsettling episodes: the Dancing Plague. It began innocuously enough. Frau Troffea, a woman of middling social standing, stepped out into the streets one sweltering … Read more