OTD in 1374 the #DancingMania 💃 🕺 that spread throughout the Holy Roman Empire started in Aachen (now in Germany). 👉 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_mania

Holy Roman Rollers? 😂

#WalterOtto draws a connection from the #dionysian #maenads and their frenzy and ecstacy to the medieval phaenomenon of #Tanzwut or in english #dancingmania.
#Paracelsus (1492-1541 CE) wrote about this, naming it #choreomania.
It is a psychic epidemic which forces the befallen to dance till exhaustion and breakdown or death.

The #dyonisanorgies were probably more like religious choreomania and spiritual ecstasy and sexual of a certain kind than our todays imagination of a penetration orgy.