With the deterioration of the infectious disease of dance, the nobles concerned sought the advice of local doctors, ruled out astrology and supernatural reasons, and announced that the infectious disease was caused by? Hot blood? Caused it? Natural diseases? . However, the authorities encouraged more dances and decided to open two town halls, a food market and even build a wooden stage instead of stipulating bleeding. The authorities do this because they believe that dancers can only be healthy if they keep dancing day and night.
In order to improve the therapeutic effect, the authorities even let the musicians try to keep the painful movements. Later, the dancers' situation became worse and worse, and many people got sick or died because of fatigue, stroke or heart attack. This strange event didn't end until September, when the dancers were driven to the temple on the top of the mountain to pray.
According to historian John? John E. Walker said that this explanation is most likely related to St. vitesse, a devout European in the16th century, who is considered a Catholic saint and has the power to curse people with plague. When combined with the horror of disease and famine in Strasbourg in 15 18, the superstition of Saint Vitesse may have caused stress-induced hysteria and occupied most cities.
Modern theory holds that food poisoning is caused by toxic and psychoactive chemical products of malt fungi, and ergot usually grows in wheat family (such as rye). The same fungus also involves other major historical anomalies, including the Salem witch experiment.