The Mysterious Dancing Plague of 1518
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2024
- What exactly happened in Strasbourg during the mysterious dancing plague of 1518? Lets travel back in time and have a look at the Mysterious Dancing Plague of 1518. Welcome to Medieval Madness.
0:00 Introduction
0:57 Dancing Queen
2:46 Blood on the Dance Floor
4:34 Everybody Dance Now
7:56 Dancing in the Dark
🎶🎶 Music by CO.AG: / @co.agmusic
Narrated by James Wade
Edited by James Wade & Adam Longster
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The music was the perfect touch for the video.
The dancing plague is such a curious occurrence. It totally sounds like something out of a children's story.
Because it's bullshit.
People dancing themsleves to death sounds like a children's story?
Gives new meaning to the phrase "sick moves."
Scary! My grandmother was so horrified by this moment in history that she'd talk about it as though she had been there! She wasn't an educated person and didn't normally talk about history. She did survive the pandemic of the early 1900's, but lost her mother and three sisters. Perhaps that made her identify with this. I guess I'll never know.
Maybe it was one of her past lives and she felt a familiarity
Hi Frances did your Nan have any other family eg father or other siblings etc
@@tylerv2422 One of her past lives?
Are you insane?
@@curiositypiqued6573 *Francis
If you're going to address someone by name, at least get it right.
@@incumbentvinyl9291 stfu wasn't talking to u
I've been under the impression that, whatever caused this, it was something that had Akathisia as a symptom. If you've ever had something that caused that, you'd understand how your body screams at you to jerk around even as your fatigue begs you to stop. It truly does feel like you've been possessed.
I really dig this channel. The light humor of the narrator makes for an enjoyable view and distinguishes this channel from "just another history channel". I hope continues to grow
I'm skeptical of the mass hysteria hypothesis only because the outbreaks are so specific and suddenly stop. It's not like life for everyday people got easier after the 16th century. The 30 Years War was right aroubd the corner yet no cases of this dancing plague.
I think it's more likely that some strain of virus or bacteria known to infect the brain (like meningococcal bacteria) damaged the movement centers of the brain causing chorea or uncontrolled jerking convulsions. Fever from infection could also explain the deliurm and altered state of mind. Finally, the reported lifelong convulsions some survivors suffered from suggests an infection that permanently damaged those parts of the brain.
Only problem is there aren't really any known brain infections that cause these specific symptoms and not other often more debilitating ones. If it was infection, it would have to be a (hopefully extinct) strain.
Well, my initial leading thought was imbalanced humors, but I can admit when I am wrong. Well said.
Read an interesting novel a while back that was a sort of retelling of the Pied Piper tale and seemed to feature the same sort of mass-hysteria in this video, except the cause was because of ergot poisoning (the townspeople blame the rats and it goes on from there). The mc has cystic fibrosis so he can't drink ale, so he is largely unaffected while he watches his town and family spiral out of control. It's called "Breathe" I believe and actually got me interested in the midieval period!
I have cystic fibrosis. I didn't know it was around back then
"I do say, Bartholemew, crank that shit up!"
The Pied Piper story is a warning to always pay your freelancers ;)
true! unless it is unfinished lol like in this case described
I love that the chapters have the names of songs. Nice touch.
EVERYBODY DANCE NOW! Oh my God, the moment I picked that out in the background I was so fucking delighted, I had to stop the video and laugh my ass right off. Amazing.
Boogie Nights....
I've always been fascinated by this story, yet MM have added the details and delivered.... Medieval RMX's are a touch of pure class... Love your work - Marvellous
Tapping my toe to the medieval version of this disco hits, lol. Love the channel!
Lol these videos do make me laugh! 😂 ‘now, my dancing is pretty terrible but it hasn’t killed anyone….. (commence creepy music) yet!’ And loving the pop culture medieval music 🎶
I really enjoyed the background music 🤣
I want the CD! 🙆♂️🙅🤷♂️🤷🕺💃👯
Love the music in this one! Great video!!
One of my favourite mysteries of the past - thank you for covering this!
Haha the background music is hilarious... dig the disco throwback
I enjoy your videos. thanks 😊
I love the way you say "thank you for watching" 😂 so energetic
Just found your channel and I’m loving it!! Binge watching everything 😌🙌🏼
#Outstanding !!
I've heard that this dancing plague was actually caused by a fungal infection in the food supply.
I also like the fact that you've placed some pop songs with a medieval rhythm as the back ground music. :)
Ergot poisioning more than likely
I heard that LSD was first synthesized from ergot, though ergot itself is toxic.
@@noahcarver6072 That would explain a lot! :)
Yes, he covered that in another video-I believe it was "8 Plagues of Medieval Times"
I never knew about Ergotism so that was very interesting!
Those poor people back then-they never knew exactly what they were suffering from!!!!
@@doyler102320 My thoughts exactly. Everyone is tripping on psychedelics
Fascinating video about a bizarre subject. I hope you do a similar one about the biting nuns.
great content i rally glad to have found this channel
superb content as always, i was seriously ccatching the dance vibe through your cheerful narration and those godly beat remakes :D i wish you snuck in one beat from beedle the bardcore's channel tho lol something like california love or in da club :D :D
Great history video I enjoyed it. Can't wait to see more soon 😀
I adore Medieval history! This channel is a gold :) One new subscriber from me !
I saw a documentary not too long ago (within the last 10 years at least) called The Town that Caught Tourettes or something very similar.
The conclusion there seemed to be some kind of mass hysteria.
Humans are definitely weird.
Hiiii me again, medieval madness fan(atic) lol. This subject has always interested me so thanks for covering ☺️ I'm wondering if somehow they had all unwittingly taken MDMA, the dancing drug 🤣🤣🤣
"What caused people to dance til they died?"
Boogie fever.
It's like how people copy folks with torettes. Sometimes they delude themselves into thinking they also have the condition, because the virality of movements and ideas can be amped up to 11 when you have shared trauma plus hysteria plus no socially acceptable outlet which equals some kind of mad behaviour that the group all does together. I have this vivid memory after the Christchurch earthquakes; I was in my last year of (all girls' just as an fyi) school, and something spilled in a year 11 science class I happened to be helping in during an aftershock. One girl had a very bad allergic or asthma attack (no one knew) and I had to keep the class calm whilst the teacher took her from the 4th floor where we were to the ground floor and ambulance. About 5 minutes after, the girl who was cleaning it up started coughing, saying she couldn't breathe, and then another and another, until the whole room was coughing and crying and saying they couldn't breathe. I felt fine, and was baffled, because the thing that spilled? It was literally just highly diluted iodine. That's it. I couldn't even smell anything yet I had a class of almost 30 15 to 16 year olds crying and saying they couldn't breathe. I told them what it was, and that they'd be fine (because the girl had just eaten a chocolate at lunch, about 1/2 hour before that was contaminated with hazelnuts and she didnt know she was allergic, I later found out, and when the minor quake knocked the beaker and the bright orange yellow brown iodine landed on her hand, and she probably panicked and that made her heartrate jump and react faster to the tiny amount she had had at lunch), but they literally couldn't stop crying. Some were wheezing, some coughing, it was all very dramatic!! The teacher and I I managed to calm down after a while y assuring them there was nothing harmful happening, but from that day I totally understand how things like the dancing plague happen.
Mirror neurons or something. It’s an ongoing area of research. Philosophically, it’s called mimesis. It’s the same capacity & tendency that causes us to learn and be socialized/molded so easily.
Just found your channel I am enjoying it. I have seen people with sentvitus dance. Shaking of the head and hands
The instrumental of blood on the dance floor was awesome.
The bard versions of dance based pop songs. Excellent 👌
I knew about this but I had no idea about the pressures the people were under prior to the outbreak! This is why MM is great!
LMFAO!!!! Carabe!!! Sorry, slips like that bring back find memories of my family lol...
One small suggestion / feedback on these excellent videos would be to insert key dates into the video, maybe by including those in a corner to support the narration. This would give the viewer an helpful visual clue to better understand the timeframe of the events as audio clues might be missed
😂 "won't you take me to.... Funky Town"😂
Brilliant, and i just love the medieval abba track!
Medieval Funky Town....love it!
"Coincidentally, the same wording used on a review for my one-man cabaret show".....🤣🤣🤣💯
(At 5:28 of video 🤣)
Ahhh...the first extended rave.
Where in the heck did you find this music? It's amazing!
You can dance if you want to. You can leave your friends behind. Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance then they're no friends of mine.
This is often attributed to ergot poisoning, mass hysteria or "Hot Blood." Would be interesting to finally solve this medieval mystery.
Would be interested in a video on the sweating sickness
Dude's having a stroke and they thought he's krumping.
Excessive consumption of grain and bread molds from imperfect farming standards and terrible food storage.
_One young guy _*_"All by himself"_*_ Started a Huge Dance Party at Sasquatch Music Festival in 2009 . It's actually still on RUclips. It's quite a sight to behold._
Isn't Strasbourg near the Black Forest? Maybe they were dancing because the jungle's massive
So “Funky Town” was written in the Medieval times? Cant believe they ripped that off so many years later
The bardcore Dancing Queen just, mwah 👌
I seem to remember that the origin of the famous song "sur le pont d'Avignon, ''l'on y danse, l'on y danse..tout en rond" was somehow attributed to plague?
"One of many reasons not to leave your children alone near a flutist ?"
That's so wise.
Sudden, violent and jerky movements to exaustion and untimely death? We have this here on the 'hood. Name's CrossFit.
Loads of laughs!! Love the medieval version of 'everbody dance now'. Quality!
It sounds like it was just a really good party which was completely outside the scope of comprehension for the culture of the time lol.
👍👏
Nice intro
I haven't watched all the way through the video yet so I don't know if the ergot poisoning was theorized in your video, but if it was , as someone who has taken acid many a time I the time I can't imagine dancing till I died. Even if I did dance throughout the duration of the acid trip that would only be 12 hours.. I understand the ergot poisoning Could have a different effect but it still just blows my mind
just because its made from ergot doesnt mean the trip would be the same lol
It was way too widespread, and there would be plenty of people doing other things too if it were.
6:49 you missed a Flight of the Concords reference (concert flutist song)
Every day I'm shufflin'
Nah the medieval version of dancing queen has done it for me lol.
I love Saint Vitus the Doom Metal band, also Black Sabbath has a great song called St Vitus Dance.
There is an extremely vigorous Italian dance called the tarantella -immortalized in many classical compositions like Rossini's "La Danza" -orchestrated in the ballet "La boutique phantasque" -the magic toyshop-the dance takes its name from the southern city of Taranto -founded by the Spartans -the dance gives its name to the tarantula spider and people thought that if you were bitten by this spider immunity would be obtained by dancing the tarantella non stop until the venom wore off.
Basically the world's largest outdoor rave that was so utterly fucking awesome and so massive that food supplies ran out and so did toilet spaces - leading to people eating food made with mushrooms they found outside while raving. On eating these mushrooms and mushroom laced cuisines some of the poisoned would die soon while others, hallucinating from the magical kind would be enjoying the moment which would likely lead to more dancing, compounded with some of these mushrooms not being in cow shit but human feces of which infected people with a myriad of diseases in a time long before antiseptics and antibacterial medicines, these people ultimately died. Dysentery, vomiting, convulsions. Get what I'm saying?
Can you release the score for this video? Thine medieval re-compositions of disco melodies doth jammeth, like a Fokker o' mothers!
I think it was either an intentional or subconscious protest of their servitude and as we kno alot of ppl especially of the times of old were easily influenced
As Michael Jackson would say...
Blame it on the boogie!
You are hilarious. Love it. Not the disease. That's terrible. You are great.
Best soundtrack
That's where dance macabre/dance of death (title correct??? ITSo) inspiration came from for saint säens
And perhaps the "dead can dance" modern-day dark music group project
Someone went back in time and spiked the river with ecstasy, I mean have you ever heard of this before watching this. Clearly time travel
Wonder where in South Wales that church is as I’m from South Wales. Can’t find it on a Google search
Could be Mr C from the shamen is the Highlander lol 😀
I dont think its food contamination bacteria but it could be something else cuz if it is then she should not be the only first dancing but yea people followed her. On the second thought perhaps these contamination is more like an influencial to its environment and did the local authorities, musicians and physician did not get infected?
Andersen had a tale of cursed shoes made a girl dance against her will. Probably this event inspired the writer.
Yeah I think it was a series of unfortunate events combined with maybe not so great decisions. No aliens.
5:33 - it's Cabaret, not Carabet
And the piper.Legion,the demon of old. Look at the similarities . Instead of cliff it was a cave. It mocked Christ and him casting the demon into the swine.
Ergot is the main ingredient to LSD
Maastricht is in modern day Netherlands, not Holland. A common mistake. Love your video's!
It was lsd growing on the rye which had been milled into bread
5:33 Cabaret not carabay?
She has better moves than me.
I new somebody who suffered from psychosis, and walked miles without shoes, until they started bleeding, due to some delusional beliefs. Quite sad.
It was a Brain Amoeba or Fungus in the water of food probably. Maybe? But that many places makes it questionable.
I still cannot wrap my head around the urge of people wanting to dance until they fell dead. Let's try out in 2022 shall we 😏
It wasn't illness and it wasn't dancing...it was something else..
The first LOVE PARADES... In German soil of course 👍😁
Wonder if the dancing crones in elden ring are based on this.
You Got Served: Electric Ergot Edition
The first flash mobs.
I just want to dance.
It almost seems like a combination of encephalitis and epilepsy. Perhaps it was caused by a virus.
MJ song!
The only downside to this channel is that it doesn't post everyday.
Epidemic of crazy people . Panademic of TP in 2019 is a perfect example of mass hysteria.
if youve ever seen drug addicts at a methadone clinic . . they appear like they are dancing too . . because the drugs make their bodies keep moving . . they had no music . . this was simply a case of a drug dealer posted up in the town square . and the more drug fueled ppl he fed the more the crowd started to :dance": but its not really that . . . anyways ya thtats what happpened . . they didnt dei from dancing they died from the drugs the man gave or sold them and they collected around his area . . and their hearts gave out from the drugs
Do you mean Stassburg ? when you say stroussburg