The Dancing Plague of 1518: The Summer Strasbourg Couldn't Stop Dancing

In July 1518, a woman began dancing in the street in Strasbourg and couldn't stop. Within weeks, dozens and then hundreds had joined her, and the city council's cure only made it worse. The strange true story of the dancing plague: what the records actually say, what grew in the retelling, and what historians think really happened.

Created with the assistance of AI, using an AI model of the host's voice, and checked against the historical record.