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

@MikeRite-i8u
April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am
The love of dance brought me here
@davidsp5936
April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am
If they're dancing nonstop, my concern would be malnutrition and dehydration.
@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
@tuti5811
April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am
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@I_Love_Feet
April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am
The weirdest things always happen in one of two places: medieval Germany, or modern day Florida
@just_kos99
April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am
There was also the unexplained Dancing Frenchmen of Maine.
@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 🍻
@lTha208l
April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am
Crazy how I saw one of these first videos of my guy with 1.k subs and now has over 1million congrats buddy you’ve earned it @Qxir!
@ryandonovan5205
April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am
It's scary when a dancing disease kills white people cause we ain't to good at it😂
@SenselessUsername
April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am
0:25 "What was the cure?" Don't play stupid, you know the only cure — more cowbell.
@joshfacio9379
April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am
it was sanderson sisters!
@Puluo789
April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am
…but you die within 3 days without water-
how did she dance nonstop for six?
@DudeWatIsThis
April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am
Fucking normies with their tiktok dancing.
@GunSpyEnthusiast
April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am
Most competitive 2 Fort server:
@icantread7432
April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am
Apparently this is happening again on africa
@Grifters_Are_Super_Gay
April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am
If I knew you existed 6 years ago, I'd have subscribed back then. But I didn't as you only had 1,500 subscribers because you were a nobody. Just kidding. Great vids, even back then!
@billepperson2662
April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am
3:09 Not unlike "Alcohol, the cause of, AND solution TO, all of life's problems" – Homer Simpson
@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. 😨😱😨
@donaldmacleod7808
April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am
I would bet the farm every place has happened back in history there was a visitor from the South American country that brought a lil coke pain
@moldyhalfling
April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am
💚🌻thank you from the UK😊
@TomIreland-v5n
April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am
I solved it. Its a time travelling CIA biological operation to raise money through unwitting bands in history to fund Project Blue Beam. Haha
@TomIreland-v5n
April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am
The worlds first flash mob
@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.
@theofficialbruhfish8094
April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am
Team Fortress 2 lore:
@PlutoTheSynth
April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am
"which uh… women…" so true very true
@BobbyIronsights
April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am
Holy Crap, now I know how to pronounce Qxir! 0:42
@annwilliams6438
April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am
Nah, it was just a case of fire ants swarming into people’s pants – and other clothes…
@280925henry
April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am
St vitus dance
@Soundbrigade
April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am
I would guess Jerusalema …..
@ajking8836
April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am
i love to see how far you have come today (2024 1st oct ) 1.11M subs and prob over 50M views on all the vids combined
@Railfan2308
April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am
pov: you get a new disease that makes you break dance
@froggotheboi
April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am
"man discovers seizures"
damn im late to the party
@bigmock141
April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am
How many TikTok dancer died yet?
@robertaviles8451
April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am
1:46
Putting the FUN in the word FUNERAL, weren't you?
@Hiccupsinator
April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am
Every day I'm shufflin…
@AmericanMinutemen
April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am
I heard a report that some offense to the "fae", perhaps from stepping into one of their circles or something, resulted in people being forced to dance until they died.
@paurushbhatnagar8100
April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am
Dancing deads
@sykoteddy
April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am
What about ravers on drugs?
@skyskimmer
April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am
Dance Dance Revolution
@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.
@ferretyluv
April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am
Ergot doesn’t grow on wheat, it grows on rye.
@441rider
April 20, 2026 at 10:18 am
Bed bugs, fleas or ticks?