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Dance Dance Death and psychedelic Bread!
A woman by the name of Frau Troffea living in the Roman Empire back in 1518 went down to the street one day and started to dance. Many people were overjoyed by such a scene and proceeded to encourage it. As the day went on however people started to suspect something amiss when Mrs. Troffea seemed unable to stop. Upon waking up the next morning people were horrified to find that she had danced through the night and showed no sign of stopping! Between bouts of compulsive swirling and twirling her body would succumb to exhaustion and she would fall asleep in her place, only to wake up and carry on. Soon her shoes were drenched in blood and the fellow citizens noticed something increasingly odd... More and more people were joining her! Eventually the symptoms spread. The city council of Strasbourg voiced their concerns to a local physician who dismissed the public spectacle to a bout of some kind of fever. The nobles sent music and encouraged the dancing as the physician prescribed, to sweat it out per say. As expected, people were soon dropping like flies. Dead of exhaustion.
To this day the cause is unknown, but the most plausible theory is:
Moldy Bread with LSD?
Some suspect that the spontaneous mass flash mob was due to ingestion of Ergot, a type of fungi growing on their bread. Ergot contains Ergotamine which is similar in structure to synthetic recreational LSD. I think we all know the catastrophe that is LSD on the human mind. If not then refer to the 1950s LSD artist experiment in which an artist was asked to draw the same portrait of a man 9 times in successions after being given only one dose of the potent drug. You can see the mental deterioration from the beginning till the end of the 8 hours.
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