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10 Images Telling The Strange Story Of When People Literally Danced To Death In 1518

No matter how much you may have hit the dance floor this past weekend, these French villagers have you beat. In 1518, a "Dancing Plague" swept through a small town in then-Alsace, leading tens to hundreds of people to shake it until they either died or experienced horrifying injuries. 


From the origins of this mass hysteria to the theories behind why it happened, here are 10 images telling the story of the Dancing Plague of 1518. 

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