New Axis Powers: Hetalia story from me, link is in the title. Either Monday or Tuesday (probably Tuesday) afternoon Taylor told me about an event in 1518 in Strasbourg, Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. A woman started to dance in the streets. She danced for four to six days before she died of either exhaustion, heat-stroke (it was July), or a heart attack. The thing was, she wasn't dancing because she wanted to, accounts of the incident say she had a horrible, pained look on her face.
By the time a month passed, over four hundred people had started dancing, for no reason, against their will. Most died. Musicians were hired to keep them going day and night, because they couldn't think of any other cure for them other than to let them dance away the urge. It's a strange event that just shows how strange the human brain can be when under a great amount of stress--there was a famine going on due to harsh winters and a dry, hot summer, and many people were homeless and without food. It's funny to think about until you realize that these people died in a horrible way.
Just an interesting bit of history that once I found out about it I couldn't resist applying it to Hetalia. I don't think I did the event justice due to the brevity of it, but alas, not everything I write is going to be spectacular, I know that. :P I tried, at least.
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