Note 15 — Chapter I · THE DANCING MANIA IN GERMANY AND THE NETHERLANDS.
B. G. (Benjamin Guy) Babington translation
J. of Köningshoven, the oldest German Chronicle in existence. The contents are general, but devoted more exclusively to Alsace and Strasburg, published by Schiltern, Strasburg, 1698. 4to. Observat. 21, of St. Vitus’s Dance, p. 1085. f.
“Viel hundert fingen zu Strassburg an Zu tanzen und springen Frau und Mann, Am offnen Markt, Gassen und Strassen Tag und Nacht ihrer viel nicht assen. Bis ihn das Wüthen wieder gelag. St. Vits Tanz ward genannt die Plag.”
“Many hundreds of men and women began to dance and jump in the public market-place, the lanes, and the streets of Strasburg. Many of them ate nothing for days and nights, until their mania again subsided. The plague was called St. Vitus’s Dance.”