html In the summer of 1500 years ago, in the French city of Strasbourg (then part of the Holy Roman Empire in the West), a dancing plague began to spread among the people.
infected people came to the square and started dancing the jig. (A fast dance with many jumping and kicking movements, originating from Ireland)
Dance in Windmill Village
Gig dance
Memories of the physicist Paracelsus (celsus) in the 1530s , the "dancing plague of Strasbourg" began in mid-July 1518, when a lonely woman walked out of her room and danced the jig for several days). Within a week, more and more people were attracted by the same irresistible urge.
According to records, these dancers liked to tap their feet, seeming to feel discomfort in their feet.
What is even more interesting is the following account:
"They hardly stopped, and some danced until they broke their ribs and then died. All the while, the dancers were screaming, laughing or crying, while some were dancing Singing. ...
This is very similar to the scene we saw in Windmill Village
laughing and dancing to the dead village women
... If you are watching them, and refuse. If you join the ranks of dancers, you will be treated with violence. They show strange reactions to red things: they can't stand the color red and often become violent when they see it."
This record may also explain the behavior of faders. Why is the village being beaten? After all, players can only watch these village women dancing, and the village is full of red flowers.
There are little red flowers everywhere Little red flowers
The "Dancing Plague" did not only appear this time. From the 13th to the 17th century, this plague occurred repeatedly on the European continent. Strangely, it suddenly disappeared after the 17th century.
So far, people have no reasonable explanation for this strange plague. Ergotism seems to be a quite powerful explanation. Mold will grow on moist rye , which contains a chemical called lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). People who eat rye contaminated by this will fall into terrifying hallucinations accompanied by strong hallucinations. twitch.
However, the possibility of a patient dancing around the clock and being contagious is almost zero.
Psychiatry explains this plague as a mass mental illness, and its scientific name is "mass hysteria".
At the end of the 11518 Strasbourg incident mentioned at the beginning of this article, the dancers were taken to a musty cave somewhere on the nearby hills, where there was a memorial to St. Vitus. At the altar, they were asked to put on red shoes with their bloody feet and circle around a wooden statue of St. Vitus, and then the plague gradually subsided.
In Christian legend, St. Vitus is considered to be the main blessing saint for actors, comedians, dancers and epilepsy patients.
This reminds us of the "near-king" Vic in "Ring of Law" and the existence of epileptic fire.
"Near King" Vic
Finally, let's look at this dancing plague recorded by the medical professor Gregor Horst in the 17th century:
"I observe it every year, in the church of St. Vitus in Defelhausen , several women dance wildly day and night until they collapse into a state of madness. Some may recover from this collapse, and some may die every year. Around St. Vitus Day, take yourself to that place for a crazy dance "show" - it is said that there is a woman who has been dancing every year for the past twenty years, for a full thirty-two years."
