Rethinking Our History
In this new weekly show from the host of The Paranormal Lovers we take a look at some of histories less well known events. Why are they less well known? Because " History is written by the victors."
So we are here to look at the other side of the story, and to give people a starting point to learn about the true history of this country.
Rethinking Our History
Episode 24: The Dancing Plague of 1518
We got a bit of a lighter episode for ya this week, but its still a weird story.
On July 14th 1518 Frau Troffea walked out of her home in Strasbourg France and began dancing. But this was not joyful twirling, line dancing, or any of the dancing we have today, instead it was a manic dancing that lasted well into the night and only stopped once Troffea fell asleep.
But the next day she would wake up and start dancing again. Soon more people began joining her and before long almost 400 people had joined in the choreomania that would last for two months.
Even today with the technology we have there is no way for us to know what caused this plague, or any of the others to follow. But I can definitely see it happening again in the future.
ROH EP 24 Source Notes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_plague_of_1518
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Vitus