quiz:102
Why did hundreds of people dance non-stop for weeks in Strasbourg in 1518?
One July morning, Frau Troffea started shimmying in a Strasbourg street—and couldn’t stop. Within days dozens joined her; by August, perhaps 400 people were stuck in a trance-like boogie, their feet bleeding through wooden clogs. City councillors, believing music might “dance out” the fever, hired pipe-bands to play