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Keep on moving: the bizarre dance epidemic of summer 1518

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Re: Keep on moving: the bizarre dance epidemic of summer 1518

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John Waller wrote a book about this 9 years ago which I thought was amazing:

https://iconbooks.com/ib-title/a-time-to-dance-a-time-to-die...

I don't know if anything new has come to light though.

A particular touching thing was that they made red shoes for the dancers, a known expensive colour, to show how much they valued them, but it didn't stop the dancing.

The film the Red Shoes was based on HC Anderson's story, which as far as I can tell has no connection with this dancing epidemic, just that his Dad was a shoe maker and had some spare red material...

Re: Keep on moving: the bizarre dance epidemic of summer 1518

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This is pretty weird.. who would have thought they're prescribe "more dancing for cooked minds!"

I learned recently that when elephants are very hot, they need to wildly flap their ears to cool their blood (as the blood flows from the body to the brain by way of the ears.) Maybe they hypothesized a similar effect?
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