all this food but now that there's a dancing plague and suddenly they're able to like feed the people like this is what it took to get some food dancing okay so others are seeing that these people who are stuck dancing are now getting free food and water and they're like you know what i got the dancing plate too and they're like getting in on it everyone's literally dancing okay you get it lots of dancing going on so they could get free food and water which hello who would blame them i don't okay but really this dancing plague kept spreading and spreading and by august there were around NUMBER_TOKEN dancers i'm not kidding like these people kept dancing all day every day unless they were sleeping it was bizarre would this be considered the first renaissance fair huh valid question like i mentioned earlier this started in july so they had been dancing for a whole month at this point in the middle of summer with no showers could you imagine how stinky everyone was stink must have been real but it wasn't all just fun and dancing NUMBER_TOKENa of course not this would actually start to become deadly but after the sad break hi friends just popping in here to mention today's sponsor which is squarespace squarespace empowers millions of dreamers makers and doers by providing them with the tools they need to bring their creative ideas to life with squarespace's all-in-one platform you can build a website claim a domain sell products or even just market your brand squarespace has made it easier than ever to establish your online presence it's the perfect option for people who are like ready to take time and like make their ideas come to to life you can really like personalize everything when it comes to your website on squarespace it can truly be a reflection of who you are and what your brand stands for squarespace is so easy to use most of the times building a website can be a little intimidating because it's like what's step one well with squarespace they lay it all out for you they walk you right through it it's not intimidating at all they make it real easy if this sounds right up your alley head to URL_TOKEN history for a free trial and when you're ready to launch your new website use the offer code dark history to save NUMBER_TOKEN percent off your first purchase of a website or domain again use the offer code dark history to save NUMBER_TOKEN off your first purchase of a website or domain thank you squarespace and now let's get back to today's story so welcome back so those in charge want to keep the dancers dancing and they hired what was described as quote strong men end quote like football player types or something i guess they were using them to prop the dancers up again to keep them dancing yeah this sounds completely made up but i swear to you okay i swear historians said it happened they were being forced to keep dancing and again it's really hilarious what does it mean well depending on who you ask this method did work some people did indeed stop dancing the only reason they stopped was because some were literally dying from exhaustion they were dying from non-stop dancing many of them didn't want to keep going but also they just couldn't stop some were so miserable why they danced but seemed to have like no control over their own bodies leading to their deaths yes there was food and water provided but at this point there were so many dancers and they were unable to like keep them all hydrated and full some of the people were begging to stop but they couldn't
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