mediumaevum:

What she says: I’m fine

What she really means: ever since the VII century there have been outbreaks of dancing mania, one person or several would start dancing, others following them in course of days, sometimes even months, until they collapsed of exhaustion, died of a heart attack, or were taken for an exorcism, these stopped abruptly in the XVII century and to this day historians are baffled, what caused it and made it stop, was it an outbreak of a disease causing hallucinations, was it fashionable, out of fear, why do we have reliable sources stating that thousands of these poor people danced in the streets, what does it all mean