People who love to dance are said to have dancing fever.

Dancing fever is of course just a phrase and not meant to be taken literally.

However, could there actually be a dancing fever?

Could there be a disease that caused people, many people actually, to dance until they fell

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In 1845 the Danish author Hans Christian Anderson published a fairy tale called The Red Shoes.

In his story, a vain young girl puts on a pair of red shoes that were cursed.

Once she starts dancing, she's unable to stop. An angel

appears and tells her that she can't stop dancing and even when she dies the

shoes will continue dancing with her inside them.

Then as is pretty typical for fairy tales, she gets her feet cut off and then dies.

By the way, there is an excellent film adaptation of the story which was released in 1948 by the British directors Michael Powell and

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