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The Disease That Makes You Dance to Death | Tales From the Bottle

Qxir | April 20, 2026



Lace up your dancing shoes, because ‘Tales From the Bottle’ travels back to a time when dancing til you’re dead was a legitimate concern.

“The dancing plague (or dance epidemic) of 1518 was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace, in the Holy Roman Empire in July 1518. Around 400 people took to dancing for days without rest and, over the period of about one month, some of those affected collapsed or even died of heart attack, stroke, or exhaustion.”

More on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_plague_of_1518

Written by Qxir

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  1. @Sinisterchristopher1967

    April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am

    You make my old ass (and mouth) laugh every day. I really appreciate it. But I'm an unemployed schmuck stuck surrounded by older and racist shitstains who adore oomp-a- loompass's…as long as they're attached to Cindy-whos? Who's going to cause a stroke instead of a stroke of Goodluck? Bowling with Hitler! Most of the U.S. has been coming to reality. Please don't judge ALL Americans as imbeciles. More than half of the vote….Got sum Molly?on a front

  2. @thepithandmarrow

    April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am

    I'm going to have to go with the doctor's here. They're very correct about disEQUILIBRIUM in the body being the reason for disEASE. And they were correct in their humors.

    It's common knowledge.

    More dancing because it will burn itself out, or the suffering would die.

    It's Darwinism. Nature makes the rules, not man.

    We can put a man on the moon, a lander on Mars, we can orbit the Sun with a probe, and yet, we STILL can't feed and protect the children….? Sounds like baloney to me.

    Humans are not immortal, they're going to die, that's LITERALLY the goal of life,
    to die.

    I'll tell you my non expert opinion on the incident.

    Men are hairless bipedal primates that are LARPING civilized DOMINION under the guise of advancing humanity.
    We've become dependant on modernity, on daddy to fill the grocery shelves.
    Instead of leading a self sustainable "lifestyle", up until 5000 years ago we were living in small hunter gather tribes and up until 200 years ago we were living off the land. Men in his hubris made fire and cracked his brain, hubris infected his brain and duality was born. This is where men as divine, God's even mistakingly believing we can own nature. With the birth of the machine and subsequent technology, electricity and silica, cracks their brains that much more,

    Someone call Fermi, humanity kills itself over order pride, greed, laziness, murder, and sloth.

    Kind of seems like religion has been nothing but projection…

    I digress.
    Humans were never meant to live in cities, nature sent her warning shots, communicable diseases, so ofc we went back to our hunter gatherer lifestyle we'd EVOLVED for hundreds of thousands of years to be. Earths caretakers.

    Disease killing ENTIRE farm villages ie the European FIRST farmers wiped out by plague, ERASED.

    Cystic fibrosis was evolution's response to CHOLERA.

    And in some, broken brain of a man, trying to assert his WILL onto nature, created the first vaccine.

    I don't need to tell you any more, I think you can see the mandelbrot.

    Anyway.

    So yeah, we're royally fucked unless everyone decides to stop being hoes working for the, leaving the children unprotected so they consume, gluttony, reckless consumption.

    Cheers 🍻

  3. @aagu-g3x

    April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am

    If stress may have been a contributing factor here, then I suspect the simple reason women were affected more than men was because they were women living in the MIDDLE AGES. 😨😱😨

  4. @shawn.the.alien423

    April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am

    Please do a video about Cas Walker. I know I may come off as a nutter, but this dude had such an amazing and weird life. He was on th cover of Life Magazine punching another councilman in the face. And he's one fucked up guy I've actually met. I was 4, and his voice scared the living shit outta me.

  5. @spacewater7

    April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am

    'The only cure (for dancing fever) is more dancing! Get it out of your system.' Makes sense really because it's the SAME cure for that song that's STUCK IN YOUR HEAD RIGHT NOW. You know the one, it goes doo do de do doo (ahem). Right. That one.
    But in all seriousness, the Great Dancing Plague DID have a super-natural cause. Around the same time a giant cross appeared in the sky, so bright it was even visible during the day, allegedly caused by a star towards the center of the galaxy going supernova. All of this coincided with the return of Our Lord Jesus the Christ around that time; the founding of the New Heaven and New Earth and the 'passing away' of the Old Heaven.
    And for those who died while dancing, instead of just dying and being left to wait for the Resurrection, they could pass from earthly life and go straight to the New Heaven. After a (hopefully) short stint in Purgatory of course.

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