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A Time to Dance, a Time to Die

The Extraordinary Story of the Dancing Plague of 1518

by John Waller

A history of the dancing epidemic in Strasbourg in 1518, set against famine, disease and belief in the curse of St Vitus. Waller rejects ergot poisoning as an explanation and argues for a mass psychogenic illness shaped by local religious culture.

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