The Forgotten Deadly Plague: Dance Mania

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On June 24, 1374, people on the streets of Aachen, Germany inexplicably began dancing around and reportedly experiencing hallucinations with an apparent case of "St. John's Dance" or "The Dance Plague", with their numbers swelling into the thousands before the event ceased. This was the first of the two best documented cases of this phenomenon, though this sort of thing wasn't unheard of, with instances as far back as the 7th century. It also periodically popped up all the way up to the 17th century.

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