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History classes tend to cover the major events from our past: wars, the founding of new nations, the exploration of unknown lands. However, there are countless weird historical events that rarely make it into textbooks.Some of these incidents include wars fought (and lost) against birds, popes put on trial after they were already dead, and entire neighborhoods nearly drowned in beer. As ridiculous as these events may sound, though, they were not the fever dreams of bored historians they really happened. Below, learn about 11 weird historical events that you werent taught in school.The Dancing Plague Of 1518Public DomainAs many as 100 people reportedly died in the mania of the Dancing Plague.In July 1518, a woman in Strasbourg named Frau Troffea began dancing uncontrollably, continuing for days despite exhaustion and bloody feet. But what started as one womans bizarre compulsion soon spread through the city like wildfire.Within weeks, approximately 400 people had joined her in relentless, joyless dancing that persisted for about two months. Witnesses described dancers moving with mindless intensity in public halls and private homes, unable to stop themselves. The epidemic proved deadly, with reports suggesting up to 15 deaths daily at its peak and around 100 total fatalities from heart attacks, strokes, and exhaustion.People demanded answers, but city officials seemed just as confused as everyone else. Initially, the council concluded that the dancing stemmed from overheated blood in the brain and actually encouraged more dancing, providing guild halls, musicians, and strong men to hold up exhausted dancers. When this failed, authorities reversed course, banning music and public dancing while treating the incident as divine punishment. Public DomainThe dancing ended suddenly after several weeks, just as mysteriously as it had begun.Eventually, afflicted dancers were taken to a shrine dedicated to St. Vitus, where their bloodied feet were placed in red shoes and they were led around a wooden carving of the saint. Some modern theories have attempted to explain this strange phenomenon, of course. One hypothesis suggests ergot poisoning from a psychotropic mold growing on damp rye, which produces LSD-like chemicals. That said, this theory has some weaknesses and has never been confirmed. Alternatively, historian John Waller, one of the foremost experts on the subject, argues that the weird historical event was an instance of mass hysteria triggered by extreme stress from poverty, disease, and starvation in Strasbourg at the time. He believes the regions strong belief in St. Vitus a saint said to curse sinners with dancing mania created an environment of belief that enabled the collective psychosis. Whatever the cause may have been, the Dancing Plague of 1518 remains one of historys strangest mysteries. The post The Unbelievable Stories Behind 11 Of Historys Weirdest Events appeared first on All That's Interesting.

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Two Bronze Age spearheads decorated with gold have been discovered in Boeslunde, Denmark. There are no known comparable examples of gold ornamented spears from this period in all of Europe, but they would be extraordinary even without the gold because the spearheads are made from iron. Analysis of birch pitch used as a glue from a sheath at the tip of one of the spearheads dates to the approximately 900830 B.C., the oldest iron in Denmark.There was no iron production in Denmark until, well, the Iron Age hundreds of years after these spears were made. They must have been made elsewhere and reached Denmark via trade, but even in Greece and Central Europe where iron spears from this period have been found, none of the examples have gold ornaments.Obviously this was a completely unexpected find. The goal of the excavation at Boeslunde was to investigate why so many gold artifacts have been found there. Just in the last few decades, 10 gold oath rings and 2,200 gold spirals have been unearthed in one field. The team actually did uncover a likely explanation for this extraordinary: the remains of a sacred spring. This identifies the profusion of gold jewelry found right above and around it as religious offerings.X-ray photographs of the best preserved lance show several circular gold inlays along the blade; the preserved length is 47 cm, and the full length is estimated to have been around 60 cm.South and east of the spring lies a cooking pit field, indicating that there were repeated activities such as cooking and ritual stays at the spring in the Late Bronze Age. Together with the large gold deposits and the finds of six gold bowls at Borgbjerg Banke, the lances suggest that Boeslunde was an important religious and economic hub during the period.The gold-plated lances are not only remarkable in a national context. Iron weapons with similar gold decoration from this period are unusual and without parallel in all of Northern Europe, and the find contributes to understanding the spread of early iron technologies and the luxurious environments of the Bronze Age, where valuable metals were exchanged over distant networks. After having been worn for a long time as jewelry and weapons, the valuable objects were often sacrificed in connection with water in ritual practices.The two spearheads will be exhibited at Museum Vestsjlland, along with other gold finds from the Bronze Age sacred spring in Boeslunde.