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Dance mania, or St. John’s Dance, during as depicted by Pieter Brueghel the Younger. Source: Public domain

Dance Until You Drop: The Mysterious Case of Medieval Dance Mania

St. John’s Dance was a social phenomenon involving a type of dance mania that gripped mainland Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries whereby participants literally danced until they dropped...