In July 1518, in the city of Strasbourg, a woman known as Frau Troffea stepped into the street and began to dance and she didn’t stop. For days, she moved without music, without rest. Then others ...

ON A SUMMER’S day in 1518, a woman walked out of her house in Strasbourg and started to dance energetically in the street. Apart from stolen moments for sleep, she did not stop for six days. Crowds ...

What exactly happened in Strasbourg during the mysterious dancing plague of 1518? Lets travel back in time and have a look at the Mysterious Dancing Plague of 1518. Welcome to Medieval Madness.

It's not just the name of an apocalyptic Florence + The Machine song. There was a real phenomenon in a medieval French town in which hundreds of people spontaneously broke out dancing in an affliction ...

The year was 1518. It was July. On a city street of Strasbourg, France, a woman by the name of Frau Troffea began to dance. It was strange for a woman to begin dancing, alone, in public. What was even ...

This isn’t about that night you dropped too much MDMA at the club. And no, it’s not a Yeah Yeah Yeahs track either (even if “dance, dance, dance ’til you’re dead” would’ve been a fitting soundtrack).