Thinking Sideways: The Dancing Plague of 1518

Shattered Souls

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🗓️ 29 May 2014

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In 1518 in Strasbourg, Alsace, a woman began dancing in the street. She danced for 4 to 6 days and was joined by 34 others within a week. Within a month, 400 people were dancing in the streets. Many died from heart attacks, stroke or exhaustion. Why? NO ONE KNOWS!!!

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0:00.0	I'm not going to be able to explain what stories of things we simply don't know the answer to.
0:20.2	Well hi everybody, my name is Devon and I'm joined as always by...
0:25.0	Joe.
0:26.0	Steve?
0:27.0	Oh, not Joe and Steve, just Joe Steve.
0:29.8	Yeah, yeah.
0:30.8	Yeah, well my name isn't Anne Steve, so yeah.
0:32.8	Oh, it's not?
0:33.8	No.
0:34.8	Oh, I thought it was.
0:35.8	Yeah, it's a little weird when you keep introducing me as Anne Steve.
0:38.8	Anne Steve.
0:39.8	And people say, oh hi Anne Steve.
0:41.8	Well, you know, put us three in a room and you've got thinking sideways the podcast.
0:46.8	Not to mention synergy.
0:48.8	Synergy.
0:49.8	A lot of synergy.
0:50.8	Yeah.
0:51.8	In this room here, we are the definition of synergy.
0:54.8	So the mystery we're going to talk about tonight is the dancing plague of 1518.
1:00.6	As luck would have it, there are actually a lot of dancing plagues in our history, including
1:04.8	one in the 70s and against the entire 70s.
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