Jinx
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This may have been discussed before; I'm new, forgive me!
So I found this on Reddit today. Hadn't heard of it before, and it immediately put me in mind of the glorious episode from Buffy. They say it was due to a naturally occurring outbreak of a fungus that can act like LSD ...buuuuut it seems to me that somewhere in the past, a Xander from another time uncorked the same demon from the episode ;D
It'd be interesting to find out that this historical event was the initial spark of inspiration for the demon.
"The outbreak began in July 1518, when a woman, Mrs. Troffea, began to dance fervently in a street in Strasbourg. This lasted somewhere between four and six days. Within a week, 34 others had joined, and within a month, there were around 400 dancers, predominantly female. Some of these people eventually died from heart attacks, strokes, or exhaustion. One report indicates that for a period the plague killed around fifteen people per day.
"Historical documents, including physician notes, cathedral sermons, local and regional chronicles, and even notes issued by the Strasbourg city council" are clear that the victims danced. It is not known why these people danced, some even to their deaths.
"Modern theories include food-poisoning caused by the toxic and psychoactive chemical products of ergot fungi, which grows commonly on grains in the wheat family... is the main psychoactive product of ergot fungi, it is structurally related to the recreational drug LSD"
-Wikipedia
An interesting article on it;
Flashback Friday: the mysterious dancing epidemic of 1518. - Seriously, Science?
So I found this on Reddit today. Hadn't heard of it before, and it immediately put me in mind of the glorious episode from Buffy. They say it was due to a naturally occurring outbreak of a fungus that can act like LSD ...buuuuut it seems to me that somewhere in the past, a Xander from another time uncorked the same demon from the episode ;D
It'd be interesting to find out that this historical event was the initial spark of inspiration for the demon.
"The outbreak began in July 1518, when a woman, Mrs. Troffea, began to dance fervently in a street in Strasbourg. This lasted somewhere between four and six days. Within a week, 34 others had joined, and within a month, there were around 400 dancers, predominantly female. Some of these people eventually died from heart attacks, strokes, or exhaustion. One report indicates that for a period the plague killed around fifteen people per day.
"Historical documents, including physician notes, cathedral sermons, local and regional chronicles, and even notes issued by the Strasbourg city council" are clear that the victims danced. It is not known why these people danced, some even to their deaths.
"Modern theories include food-poisoning caused by the toxic and psychoactive chemical products of ergot fungi, which grows commonly on grains in the wheat family... is the main psychoactive product of ergot fungi, it is structurally related to the recreational drug LSD"
-Wikipedia
An interesting article on it;
Flashback Friday: the mysterious dancing epidemic of 1518. - Seriously, Science?
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