Alaina
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard May 2025
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But it would be really funny to think of them dancing and biting. Get their groove on. And every once in a while the beat drops and they bite someone. The beat drops. Yeah. Yeah, so then word spread about this affliction because people were like, whoa, have you heard of this? These nuns go crazy. And the affliction started spreading.
Yeah, now the biting one's going. We got a lot going on. Apparently nunneries in Saxenburg and Brendenburg, you know, Holland, now even Rome. Whoa. All biting each other. And biting the priests. And meowing. And meowing. There was meowing as well. Awesome. And it only stopped, and this is literally documented, it says it only stopped because they got exhausted. Exhausted of biting each other?
I just got tired.
I wonder how long. I know. How long can you bite someone? I don't know. Write in. More for podcasts at gmail.com. Yeah, let us know. Do an experiment.
We're responsible. Now, by far the most notorious of the dancing plagues occurred in Strasbourg, France in July 1518. This is the one that a lot of people know about. Okay. The event began pretty innocuously. It was just a single older woman dancing. just going into the streets, into the city center. Her name was Frau Trofea, I think is what I say it. That's how I say it.
She just walked out and she was like, let's do this. And she just started dancing. She said, let's dance. Let's go. Yeah, she used to David Bowie before David Bowie. Hell yeah. That's where David Bowie came from. He came from a dancing play. A nunnery of dancing. Yeah, a dancing play in a nunnery. Canon. That is where David Bowie came from. He came from a dancing play. It was Frau.
So by mid-August, and she wouldn't stop, of course, because that's how these work. She had a plague. By mid-August, hundreds of people had joined her in the town square. Again, a flash mob. All of them uncontrollable. And like the previous ones, the dancers in Strasburg never stopped to eat, never stopped to drink, sleep, nothing.
Not long after the mania began, quote, as many as 15 people a day dropped dead. Oh, my God.
It's like real plague or dancing plague.
And they just kept going. So people would be dropping dead and they were still dancing. It's not like they stopped and were like, pause, like, let's get this one out. Nope. They just danced. People dropping. Wow. Yeah. Yeah.
And unlike many of the earlier dancing plagues, which were recounted a lot, like they would kind of change over time, like folklore, this one, this particular one in 1518, was very well documented. Like it's a real event that is very documented. It's appeared in everything from historical text, news accounts, church and medical documents. It's like in a lot of things.
And according to many of these documents, the woman who started the plague was brought to a church devoted to... Can we guess? St. Vincent. St. Vitus. Oh, Vitus. My bad. Maybe St.
Who knows? A few days after she started dancing, they were brought, she was brought to a church devoted to him and she was cured.
They're still going.
They're trying to chop the head off the snake and see if it all falls.
Yeah, maybe if Frau stops. No, they all just kept going. Because in the days after that, others started joining more even. As soon as her absence was felt, they were like, we need to beef this up. Let's dance for her. So in order to curtail the mania, the city forbade musicians to perform publicly. Aw, boo. Which, like, lame. That sucks. Yeah. Kind of a killjoy.
And eventually started taking the dancers one by one to the St. Vitus Church to get treatment. And no matter how quickly they removed the dancers off the streets to St. Vitus' church there, they were just replaced by new dancers. People would just show up. It's like one leaves, five more come. Yeah. They had alternates.
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Let's go. Yeah. I know. They were like, we can really get big here. This is our spot. They're like running around the dancers being like, listen to my demo. Get a record deal out here. Now, in the decades and centuries that followed this, dancing plagues continued across Europe with significant events occurring in the 16th and 17th centuries in Switzerland and Italy.
And there hasn't been, like, a really documented case of dancing mania in a lot of centuries. But Tarentism, which is, like, thought to be kind of similar, has been documented in Italy as recently as the 1950s. Oh, shit. So...
Yeah, it is kind of dancing, but it's like a little different because they claim it's from a spider. Okay. Like you get bit by a tarantula, which I didn't even know they had tarantulas in Italy. That was news to me. I don't think I knew that either. I don't know where I thought tarantulas were. Australia. I think everything's in Australia.
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