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Who began the 1518 Strasbourg dancing plague?
In early July 1518, a woman named Frau Troffea stepped out of her house in Strasbourg and began dancing in the street. She did not stop for several days. Within a week, thirty-four others had joined her. By August, around four hundred people were dancing. The Strasbourg city council's official response was to build stages and hire musicians.
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The Summer Strasbourg Could Not Stop Dancing In July 1518 a woman in Strasbourg began to dance in the street. By August several hundred people had joined her, and some of them had died of it.
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