Dancing plague of 1518: References & Edit History

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  • Patricia Bauer
    Pat Bauer graduated from Ripon College in 1977 with a double major in Spanish and Theatre. She spent most of the next 42 years working as a copy editor and editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica.

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Asset added, spelling corrected. Oct 06, 2026
Invalidated site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - And those who were seen dancing: Human interactions with fungi and vice versa. May 19, 2026
Add new Web site: National Geographic - France's strangest epidemic wasn't the bubonic plague. It was a dance. Apr 10, 2026
Add new Web site: The Lancet - A forgotten plague: making sense of dancing mania. Feb 28, 2026
Add new Web site: ABC listen - Myf Warhurst - The Dancing Plague. Jul 17, 2025
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - And those who were seen dancing: Human interactions with fungi and vice versa. May 24, 2025
Add new Web site: The Lancet - A forgotten plague: making sense of dancing mania (PDF). Feb 27, 2025
Add new Web site: HistoryNet - The Dancing Plague of 1518: History�s Oddest Epidemic. Apr 10, 2024
Add new Web site: The Briish Psychological Society - Dancing plagues and mass hysteria. Jan 05, 2024
Add new Web site: The Guardian - Keep on moving: the bizarre dance epidemic of summer 1518. Nov 17, 2023
Add new Web site: BBC Culture - The people who 'danced themselves to death'. Sep 07, 2023
Add new Web site: The Lancet - The art of medicine A forgotten plague: making sense of dancing mania. Jan 12, 2023
Corrected display issue. Oct 07, 2020
Add new Web site: Academia - Divine Punishment or Disease? Medieval and Early Modern Approaches to the 1518 Strasbourg Dancing Plague (PDF). Jan 08, 2019
New article added. May 18, 2017
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