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Francis Fischer

2y↑38

Scary! My grandmother was so horrified by this moment in history that she'd talk about it as though she had been there! She wasn't an educated person and didn't normally talk about history. She did survive the pandemic of the early 1900's, but lost her mother and three sisters. Perhaps that made her identify with this. I guess I'll never know.

fine fi

You mean the spanish flu with the pandemic of the 1900s?

Daniel Rodríguez

2y↑68

The music was the perfect touch for the video.
The dancing plague is such a curious occurrence. It totally sounds like something out of a children's story.

Piper Westhead

2y↑11

Read an interesting novel a while back that was a sort of retelling of the Pied Piper tale and seemed to feature the same sort of mass-hysteria in this video, except the cause was because of ergot poisoning (the townspeople blame the rats and it goes on from there). The mc has cystic fibrosis so he can't drink ale, so he is largely unaffected while he watches his town and family spiral out of control. It's called "Breathe" I believe and actually got me interested in the midieval period!

Brian Clingenpeel

2y↑7

I really dig this channel. The light humor of the narrator makes for an enjoyable view and distinguishes this channel from "just another history channel". I hope continues to grow

STEPHEN BOWERS

2y↑9

Boogie Nights....
I've always been fascinated by this story, yet MM have added the details and delivered.... Medieval RMX's are a touch of pure class... Love your work - Marvellous

TheStumptube

2y↑20

I saw a documentary not too long ago (within the last 10 years at least) called The Town that Caught Tourettes or something very similar.

The conclusion there seemed to be some kind of mass hysteria.

Humans are definitely weird.

KarkTheRedCanadianDragon

2y↑33

I've heard that this dancing plague was actually caused by a fungal infection in the food supply.

I also like the fact that you've placed some pop songs with a medieval rhythm as the back ground music. :)

bepinkfloyd

2y↑1

@Jay Bee but is like when you get your drink spiked or something like that. They were all tripping bad to the point of death. I mean i hoped at least someone was playing some tripping music in some cases lol

Jay Bee

2y↑1

@doyler 179 My thoughts exactly. Everyone is tripping on psychedelics

_AmyLynne_2.0_

2y↑1

Yes, he covered that in another video-I believe it was "8 Plagues of Medieval Times"
I never knew about Ergotism so that was very interesting!
Those poor people back then-they never knew exactly what they were suffering from!!!!

KarkTheRedCanadianDragon

@Noah Carver That would explain a lot! :)

Noah Carver

I heard that LSD was first synthesized from ergot, though ergot itself is toxic.

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Kalo Arepo

2y↑2

There is an extremely vigorous Italian dance called the tarantella -immortalized in many classical compositions like Rossini's "La Danza" -orchestrated in the ballet "La boutique phantasque" -the magic toyshop-the dance takes its name from the southern city of Taranto -founded by the Spartans -the dance gives its name to the tarantula spider and people thought that if you were bitten by this spider immunity would be obtained by dancing the tarantella non stop until the venom wore off.

Markrios N7

2y↑8

I'm skeptical of the mass hysteria hypothesis only because the outbreaks are so specific and suddenly stop. It's not like life for everyday people got easier after the 16th century. The 30 Years War was right aroubd the corner yet no cases of this dancing plague.

I think it's more likely that some strain of virus or bacteria known to infect the brain (like meningococcal bacteria) damaged the movement centers of the brain causing chorea or uncontrolled jerking convulsions. Fever from infection could also explain the deliurm and altered state of mind. Finally, the reported lifelong convulsions some survivors suffered from suggests an infection that permanently damaged those parts of the brain.

Markrios N7

2y↑1

Only problem is there aren't really any known brain infections that cause these specific symptoms and not other often more debilitating ones. If it was infection, it would have to be a (hopefully extinct) strain.

Lone_Cowboy333

2y↑5

I adore Medieval history! This channel is a gold :) One new subscriber from me !

Rowena Aitken

2y↑71

The Pied Piper story is a warning to always pay your freelancers ;)

Rhonda Johnson

2y↑7

Tapping my toe to the medieval version of this disco hits, lol. Love the channel!

Heather

2y↑5

Lol these videos do make me laugh! 😂 ‘now, my dancing is pretty terrible but it hasn’t killed anyone….. (commence creepy music) yet!’ And loving the pop culture medieval music 🎶

da23injulecz

2y↑3

superb content as always, i was seriously ccatching the dance vibe through your cheerful narration and those godly beat remakes :D i wish you snuck in one beat from beedle the bardcore's channel tho lol something like california love or in da club :D :D

Aimz Zz

Just found your channel and I’m loving it!! Binge watching everything 😌🙌🏼

Justin Akers

2y↑4

I haven't watched all the way through the video yet so I don't know if the ergot poisoning was theorized in your video, but if it was , as someone who has taken acid many a time I the time I can't imagine dancing till I died. Even if I did dance throughout the duration of the acid trip that would only be 12 hours.. I understand the ergot poisoning Could have a different effect but it still just blows my mind

MrLoobu

It was way too widespread, and there would be plenty of people doing other things too if it were.

Rain

just because its made from ergot doesnt mean the trip would be the same lol

Glen Danison

2y↑4

Fascinating video about a bizarre subject. I hope you do a similar one about the biting nuns.

Probably RaJir

I knew about this but I had no idea about the pressures the people were under prior to the outbreak! This is why MM is great!

Fairygal 8

2y↑2

It almost seems like a combination of encephalitis and epilepsy. Perhaps it was caused by a virus.

Emma Bennett

2y↑13

Hiiii me again, medieval madness fan(atic) lol. This subject has always interested me so thanks for covering ☺️ I'm wondering if somehow they had all unwittingly taken MDMA, the dancing drug 🤣🤣🤣

Vorradath

Wonder if the dancing crones in elden ring are based on this.

michelle bruce

Great history video I enjoyed it. Can't wait to see more soon 😀

Sophia Nílsson

2y↑4

It's like how people copy folks with torettes. Sometimes they delude themselves into thinking they also have the condition, because the virality of movements and ideas can be amped up to 11 when you have shared trauma plus hysteria plus no socially acceptable outlet which equals some kind of mad behaviour that the group all does together. I have this vivid memory after the Christchurch earthquakes; I was in my last year of (all girls' just as an fyi) school, and something spilled in a year 11 science class I happened to be helping in during an aftershock. One girl had a very bad allergic or asthma attack (no one knew) and I had to keep the class calm whilst the teacher took her from the 4th floor where we were to the ground floor and ambulance. About 5 minutes after, the girl who was cleaning it up started coughing, saying she couldn't breathe, and then another and another, until the whole room was coughing and crying and saying they couldn't breathe. I felt fine, and was baffled, because the thing that spilled? It was literally just highly diluted iodine. That's it. I couldn't even smell anything yet I had a class of almost 30 15 to 16 year olds crying and saying they couldn't breathe. I told them what it was, and that they'd be fine (because the girl had just eaten a chocolate at lunch, about 1/2 hour before that was contaminated with hazelnuts and she didnt know she was allergic, I later found out, and when the minor quake knocked the beaker and the bright orange yellow brown iodine landed on her hand, and she probably panicked and that made her heartrate jump and react faster to the tiny amount she had had at lunch), but they literally couldn't stop crying. Some were wheezing, some coughing, it was all very dramatic!! The teacher and I I managed to calm down after a while y assuring them there was nothing harmful happening, but from that day I totally understand how things like the dancing plague happen.

S L

Mirror neurons or something. It’s an ongoing area of research. Philosophically, it’s called mimesis. It’s the same capacity & tendency that causes us to learn and be socialized/molded so easily.

Travis Ashley

2y↑2

I love the way you say "thank you for watching" 😂 so energetic

Ariana Noelle

2y↑6

Love the music in this one! Great video!!

Australia Greg

2y↑2

I believe there is more to the "Ergot poisoning" than this presenter can cover. Grain was a massive part of thier diet.

Lilah Phoenix

2y↑2

EVERYBODY DANCE NOW! Oh my God, the moment I picked that out in the background I was so fucking delighted, I had to stop the video and laugh my ass right off. Amazing.

lil bullet

One young guy "All by himself" Started a Huge Dance Party at Sasquatch Music Festival in 2009 . It's actually still on Youtube. It's quite a sight to behold.

treeghettox

2y↑1

Why not both? I think the first few instances were Ergot poisoning or something similar and then that snowballed into mass hysteria. Unfortunately, the vast majority of human behavior can be described as "monkey see, monkey do."

Joanna Bapari Leszczynska

2y↑2

Would be interested in a video on the sweating sickness

Lola Matthews

2y↑1

Gives new meaning to the phrase "sick moves."

Tomid

2y↑3

If you could design a virus, you'd make it so that infected hosts interact with as many other potential hosts as possible. It would also benefit from increased physical exertion, leading the hosts to expel more virus particles into the air. A virus like coronavirus-19 is doomed to fail because it reduces social interactions.

D G

Coronavirus is an entire genus of very succesful viruses, and i can confirm from personal experrience that you only need someone to cough near you without closing their mouth to get it, no socialising needed (thanks to that guy), besides, it dosent need to increase social interactions, people will naturally do that themselves. Besides, it only reduces social interaction due to regulations and guidelines, technically being ill does not prevent that sort of thing at all!!

Anton vernooy

2y↑1

great content i rally glad to have found this channel

Eris123

"One of many reasons not to leave your children alone near a flutist ?"

That's so wise.

Scorpions Oracle

2y↑3

The only downside to this channel is that it doesn't post everyday.

D G

1y↑1

Thing is, tripping does not make you dance, its not a rave drug. Dont think it was necessarily a hallucinagenic fungus

The Real Ostrich

2y↑2

See that girlll? What's that swing? Oh she's got the Danceing thinggg!!

Madison Atteberry

2y↑2

"What caused people to dance til they died?"

Boogie fever.

MrLoobu

2y↑1

It sounds like it was just a really good party which was completely outside the scope of comprehension for the culture of the time lol.

Potato

2y↑1

The bard versions of dance based pop songs. Excellent 👌

Sushi Secrets

The instrumental of blood on the dance floor was awesome.

Brabant Plays

Brilliant, and i just love the medieval abba track!

Percussierups

2y↑4

Maastricht is in modern day Netherlands, not Holland. A common mistake. Love your video's!

gijbuis

I seem to remember that the origin of the famous song "sur le pont d'Avignon, ''l'on y danse, l'on y danse..tout en rond" was somehow attributed to plague?

Kevan808

2y↑16

I really enjoyed the background music 🤣

hamish anderson

2y↑2

I want the CD! 🙆‍♂️🙅🤷‍♂️🤷🕺💃👯

Whippetha creem

2y↑3

"I do say, Bartholemew, crank that shit up!"

The Reub

Can you release the score for this video? Thine medieval re-compositions of disco melodies doth jammeth, like a Fokker o' mothers!

_AmyLynne_2.0_

"Coincidentally, the same wording used on a review for my one-man cabaret show".....🤣🤣🤣💯
(At 5:28 of video 🤣)

Elizabeth Lane

2y↑4

I enjoy your videos. thanks 😊

Bmalugin(The Vanishing Man)

2y↑1

And the piper.Legion,the demon of old. Look at the similarities . Instead of cliff it was a cave. It mocked Christ and him casting the demon into the swine.
Ergot is the main ingredient to LSD

Jacktrack7

I love Saint Vitus the Doom Metal band, also Black Sabbath has a great song called St Vitus Dance.

Oskar Libelle

I new somebody who suffered from psychosis, and walked miles without shoes, until they started bleeding, due to some delusional beliefs. Quite sad.

Michael Wright

2y↑2

Isn't Strasbourg near the Black Forest? Maybe they were dancing because the jungle's massive

Whippetha creem

The bardcore Dancing Queen just, mwah 👌

N. Bağ

I still cannot wrap my head around the urge of people wanting to dance until they fell dead. Let's try out in 2022 shall we 😏

teej debiyi

Medieval Funky Town....love it!

Sia Mihari

2y↑2

Excessive consumption of grain and bread molds from imperfect farming standards and terrible food storage.

The Reub

You Got Served: Electric Ergot Edition

TooBakedToDecideName

It was lsd growing on the rye which had been milled into bread

Tony Shum

Epidemic of crazy people . Panademic of TP in 2019 is a perfect example of mass hysteria.

Lost Dawn

It was a Brain Amoeba or Fungus in the water of food probably. Maybe? But that many places makes it questionable.

Apocalipse Reich

The first LOVE PARADES... In German soil of course 👍😁

Jayeden Dunahee

if youve ever seen drug addicts at a methadone clinic . . they appear like they are dancing too . . because the drugs make their bodies keep moving . . they had no music . . this was simply a case of a drug dealer posted up in the town square . and the more drug fueled ppl he fed the more the crowd started to :dance": but its not really that . . . anyways ya thtats what happpened . . they didnt dei from dancing they died from the drugs the man gave or sold them and they collected around his area . . and their hearts gave out from the drugs

Nate

2y↑1

#Outstanding !!

gojitmal1978

2y↑1

Dude's having a stroke and they thought he's krumping.

Pedro Jung

2y↑1

Sudden, violent and jerky movements to exaustion and untimely death? We have this here on the 'hood. Name's CrossFit.

Whane The Whip

2y↑1

You can dance if you want to. You can leave your friends behind. Cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance then they're no friends of mine.

resolutehamster

Too many dance jokes are barely enough. ☆

Anja Dyrting

Medieval raveparty gone bad?

Berni

Maybe it was ecstasy tablet 💊💊

James Bond

Do you mean Stassburg ? when you say stroussburg

gojitmal1978

I just want to dance.

YPO6

Origin of Eurodance raves.

Oskar Libelle

Best soundtrack

Belreyne Firewolf

LMFAO!!!! Carabe!!! Sorry, slips like that bring back find memories of my family lol...

pldvs

Every day I'm shufflin'

Forrest carson-austin

Now it’s back in the form of tiktok

Lando

The first flash mobs.

Jesse Brown

A psychological condition is not an illness.

Mannerless Entertainment

Wrong. It was the Devil!

Joseph Anaya

2y↑1

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iii___iii

Ergot poisoning?

samwell

MJ song!

MrLoobu

2y↑1

There is roughly a 0% chance this was ergot.

MrLoobu

@iii___iii I don't know, but there are diseases, parasitic viruses like rabies or protozoa that can infect the brain and cause certain behaviours. No idea why something would make people dance, maybe to increase body temp for further incubation/spread?

MrLoobu

@iii___iii All sorts of different ways yes, that's what I'm saying, not the same. It disconnects the brain from itself, creating totally different feelings and emotions, thus actions, based on the individual. It is the opposite of mind control.

MrLoobu

@iii___iii Those would be feeling and visions, not outward actions you can see.

MrLoobu

@iii___iii Everyone wouldn't be doing the same thing.

Eun

She has better moves than me.

David K

2y↑2

someone probably used random berries, flowers and/or mushrooms to cut or increase scarce food supplies that the town all had access to

D G

Thing is, hallucinagens dont really make people want to dance, they just make things extremely interesting and deep

Bea Ess

These days it's wokeness.

Bmalugin(The Vanishing Man)

2y↑3

I tell you exactly what happened , A black man moved to the village. Hence the first time the white man danced...😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

whisper of the Heart

Someone explain me?

iVoIRTeX_

2y↑1

Wtf

Chris

2y↑4

Wow racist much?

Abacus

It was actually Jews. The conpetition if they can out dance the Jews would leave Germany permmitly, except they had Michael Jackson. It true ask Hamburg archives

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