St Vitus' Dance was a social phenomenon that occurred primarily in mainland Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries. It involved groups of people dancing erratically, sometimes thousands at a time. The mania affected adults and children who danced until they collapsed from exhaustion and injuries.
Affecting thousands of people across several centuries, dancing mania was not an isolated event, and was well documented in contemporary reports. It was nevertheless poorly understood, and remedies were based on guesswork.
The outbreaks of dancing mania varied, and several characteristics of it have been recorded. Generally occurring in times of hardship,[2]: 136 up to tens of thousands of people would appear to dance for hours,[2]: 133 [10] days, weeks, and even months.[2]: 132 [5]
They hardly stopped,[10] and some danced until they broke their ribs and subsequently died.[6]: 32 Throughout, dancers screamed, laughed, or cried,[2]: 132 and some sang.[11]: 60 Bartholomew also notes that observers of dancing mania were sometimes treated violently if they refused to join in.[2]: 139 Participants demonstrated odd reactions to the color red...
It is certain that many participants of dancing mania were psychologically disturbed,[2]: 136 but it is also likely that some took part out of fear,[10] or simply wished to copy everyone else.[6]: 43
In100-200 years historians will write similarly about the trans fad.
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