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Quotation from St. Vitus and the Dancing Mania by Vitus tradition; J. F. C. Hecker; Benjamin Guy Babington
“Strasburg was visited by the "Dancing Plague" in the year 1418, and the same infatuation existed among the people there, as in the towns of Belgium and the Lower Rhine”
St. Vitus and the Dancing Mania, The Dancing Mania, Ch. I, Sect. 2, trans. Benjamin Guy Babington (1833/1888)
Hecker introduces the Strasbourg outbreak in his older chronology; modern accounts usually discuss the major Strasbourg episode under 1518.
Citation: "Strasburg was visited by the "Dancing Plague" in the year 1418, and the same infatuation existed among the people there, as in the towns of Belgium and the Lower Rhine" — Vitus tradition; J. F. C. Hecker; Benjamin Guy Babington, St. Vitus and the Dancing Mania, The Dancing Mania, Ch. I, Sect. 2, trans. Benjamin Guy Babington (1833/1888). (id st-vitus-and-dancing-mania-q2)
