17 Jul 2018

The 500th anniversary of the dancing plague

From The Panel, 4:31 pm on 17 July 2018

And 500 years ago, perhaps to this very day, certainly in was the middle of July, they began to dance in the street in Strasbourg. It's the 500th anniversary of the dancing plague of 1518. That's where St Vitus Dance came from, a lot of French and German people thought they'd offended St Vitus and they danced and danced until they dropped and died. Can