 A few months after this dancing malady had made its appearance at Aix-la-Chapelle, it broke out at Cologne, where the number of those possessed amounted to more than five hundred ; and about the same time at Metz, the streets of which place are said to...  The Epidemics of the Middle Ages - Page 10by Justus Friedrich Carl Hecker - 1835 - 206 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Books - 1835 - 618 pages
...number of those possessed amounted to above five hundred ; and about the same time the streets of Metz are said to have been filled with eleven hundred dancers....housewives their domestic duties, to join the wild revels. Beggars availed themselves of this new complaint to gain a temporary livelihood, and secret desires... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1850 - 604 pages
...At Cologne five hundred persons became affected by this dancing plague, and at Metz eleven hundred. Peasants left their ploughs, mechanics their workshops,...their domestic duties to join the wild revels, and the most ruinous disorder prevailed in the city. The epidemic extended to Italy, where it was attributed... | |
 | 1850 - 600 pages
...At Cologne five hundred persons became affected by this dancing plague, and at Metz eleven hundred. Peasants left their ploughs, mechanics their workshops,...their domestic duties to join the wild revels, and the most ruinous disorder prevailed in the city. The epidemic extended to Italy, where it was attributed... | |
 | Edward Bascome - Epidemics - 1851 - 268 pages
...Aix-la-Chapelle, it broke out at Cologne, where the number of those possessed amounted to more than five hundred; and about the same time at Metz, the streets of which...said to have been filled with eleven hundred dancers. ***** Girls and boys quitted their parents, and servants their masters, to amuse themselves at the... | |
 | 1863 - 534 pages
...observation of natural events with their notions of the world of spirits. Peasants left their plows, mechanics their work-shops, housewives their domestic duties, to join the wild revels ; and the rich commercial cities became the scene of the most ruinous disorder. MORE ANCIENT DANCING PLAGUES.... | |
 | John Milton Scudder - 1869 - 468 pages
...Europe. "At Cologne the number possessed Amounted to more than five hundred, and at Mete the streets are said to have been filled with eleven hundred dancers. Peasants left their plows, mechanics their workshops, housewives their domestic duties, to join the wild revels, and this... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - Great Britain - 1872 - 720 pages
...Aix-la-Chapelle, it broke out at Cologne, where the number of those possessed amounted to more than five hundred, and about the same time at Metz, the streets of which...said to have been filled with eleven hundred dancers. 1. In pp. 97, 98, Hecker gives cases of this "Dancing Mania" in the thirteenth century, and one as... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - Great Britain - 1872 - 716 pages
...Aix-la-Chapelle, it broke out at Cologne, where the number of those possessed amounted to more than five hundred, and about the same time at Metz, the streets of which...said to have been filled with eleven hundred dancers. 1. In pp. 97, 98, Hecker gives cases of this " Dancing Mania" in the thirteenth century, and one as... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - Mind and body - 1874 - 774 pages
...Aix-la-Chapelle, it broke out at Cologne, where the number of those possessed amounted to more than five hundred ; and about the same time at Metz, the streets of which...dancers. Peasants left their ploughs, mechanics their workshqps, housewives their domestic duties, to join the wild revels ; and this rich commercial city... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1877 - 224 pages
...Aix-la-Chapelle, it broke out at Cologne, where the number of those possessed amounted to more than five hundred ; and about the same time at Metz, the streets of which...revels ; and this rich commercial city became the scene of the most ruinous disorder. "The St. Vitus's dance attacked people of all stations, especially... | |
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