6. The Dancing Plague of 1518
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In the summer of 1518 in Strasbourg (modern-day France), dozens of villagers began dancing uncontrollably in the streets without music or celebration. Some danced for days, collapsing from exhaustion, and a few tragically danced themselves to death. The cause remains a mystery—was it mass hysteria or a reaction to stress and famine?
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