Dancing Plague: First Steps
Everything Is Awful Forever
English - June 24, 2019 02:00 - 41 minutes - 28.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 46 ratingsArts Comedy history comedy discussion funny macabre victorian weird indie feminist Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Are you ever seized with an unstoppable urge to dance? Are you friends routinely embarrassed by you cutting a jig day and night, waltzing your feet to the bone? If your answer was yes, then you need to listen to this episode and perhaps seek out your nearest Catholic shrine to Saint Vitus.
This week, Philippa and Jess talk about the dancing plague that took hold of Strasbourg in 1518, and the bizarre remedies that...actually worked?