specific instance of dancing mania
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_mania
http://www.csicop.org/si/show/rethinking_the_dancing_mania
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wb_UMcH5C7EC&pg=PA678&lpg=PA678&dq=jean+russell+dancing+plague&source=bl&ots=m6OllwmYOX&sig=nLa2CLvSdxFOpNLjjdGwZzY6gbU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rvg0VbS2MMaR7Abv84HICg&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=jean%20russell%20dancing%20plague&f=false
first instance in 1374
most prominent (dancing plague) july 1518 in strasbourg
started by woman frau troffea
over 400 people dancing for a month
people dancing inseccently until death from heart failure and exhaustion
no cure or understanding of occurcences even now
thought the cure would be to dance more, problem caused by hot blood but dancing deemed more helpful than bleeding
often got bands to play to help ward of the mania but it mostly just encouraged others to join in
thought to be a mass psychogenic illness or a prayer ritual of a group of travellers spread across the area
movements, to draw, described as jumping leaping linked with clothes clapping singing embracing each other, some in pairs with a third person
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