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In 1518, a woman stepped into the street in Strasbourg and began to dance. She could not stop. Within a month, hundreds had joined her — and some danced themselves to death. It sounds like folklore. It is in the municipal record. That is the whole promise here: the strange and the dark, told like a mini-trailer, but every word of it verified against the sources we cite.
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Hundreds danced for weeks in Strasbourg. Some to death. In the municipal record.
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