The Dancing Plague of 1518 (duplicated)

“In 1518, hundreds of people started dancing… and couldn’t stop.” In a town in France,

a woman began dancing in the street—and others joined her. For weeks. With no music.

No explanation. Some collapsed from exhaustion. Some reportedly died.

The authorities even brought musicians… to make it stop. Was it mass hysteria? A fungus that caused

hallucinations? No one really knows. But it proves one thing: the mind can lose control

of the body.