Erica Tang Kearney Lit/Comp 10 11 October 2016 Dance of Death: The Dancing Plague of 1518: An Annotated Bibliography Andrews, Evan. “What Was the Dancing Plague of 1518?” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 14 Sept. 2015, http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/what-was-the-dancing-plague-of-1518. In 1518 in Strasbourg, a woman named Frau Troffea spontaneously started dancing in the middle of the streets for no reason, and she would not stop. Her jerky, awkward movements continued for about a
join in the dancing during the time of the Dancing Plague? The Dancing Plague was a recurring event that took place across Europe, roughly from 1418 to 1518. The first major sighting of this strange dancing was in June of 1418, it was called the St. Johns dance. The Plague got its name from the celebration of St. John's baptism, which occurred in June. During this particular plague only a handful of deaths occurred, it was not many compared to the deaths of the St. Vitus plague in 1518. Although it
Hundreds of years ago, young girls in Salem started having mysterious symptoms after being found in the woods dancing and later being accused of witchcraft. Ergot is a main theory for the Salem Witch Trials because the weather and growing conditions on the western side of Salem were perfect for this fungus to grow on the rye. Three of the afflicted girls lived outside
The basis of this paper examines the impacts of the social, political, and religious movements through a multi-layer study of the Dancing Plague in Strasbourg from the early 1200s through the early 1500s. By analyzing this historic, but rather odd dancing hysteria, these movements created severe forms of depression, stress, and anxiety that ultimately led to high levels of psychosis within the community. The time period studied includes the Bundschuh uprisings and peasantry gains to Strasbourg citizenship
The History of Nursery Ryhmes When you think of nursery rhymes, do you think of innocent, silly games you played as a child? Think again. Most of the nursery rhymes that have become so popular with the children were never intended for them. Most began as folk songs or ballads sung in taverns. These songs (rhymes) all most always were written to make fun of religious leaders or to gossip about kings and queens (Brittanica pars. 1-5). Nursery rhymes are being studied the past few decades
The Salem Witch Trials began during the spring of 1692 in Salem Village (now Danvers), Massachusetts (Salem Witch Trials, 2014). There were over two hundred people accused of practicing witch craft and nineteen were executed for it. Religion was extremely important to the Puritans, regardless of age, and individual differences were frowned upon (Source 4). Puritans were expected to live by a strict moral code. They believed that all sins deserved a punishment and that if something bad happened such