5/10/2023 0 Comments Blood Dance by A.R. Von![]() There she might be cured at the shrine of Vitus, the saint who it was believed had cursed her. The mania possessed Frau Troffea for between four and six days, at which point the frightened authorities intervened by sending her in a wagon thirty miles away to Saverne. By the third day, people of a great and growing variety - hawkers, porters, beggars, pilgrims, priests, nuns - were drinking in the ungodly spectacle. The next morning she was up again on her swollen feet and dancing before thirst and hunger could register. 3 Ignoring her husband’s pleas to cease, she continued for hours, until the sky turned black and she collapsed in a twitching heap of exhaustion. As far as we can tell she had no musical accompaniment but simply “began to dance”. Frau Troffea had started dancing on July 14th on the narrow cobbled street outside her half-timbered home. According to his Opus Paramirum, and various chronicles agree, it all started with one woman. ![]() The physician and alchemist Paracelsus visited Strasbourg eight years after the plague and became fascinated by its causes. ![]()
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