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Dancing mania on a pilgrimage to the church at Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, a 1642 engraving by Hendrick Hondius after a 1564 drawing by Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Dancing mania (also known as dancing plague, choreomania, St. John's Dance, tarantism and St. Vitus' Dance) was a social phenomenon that may have had biological causes, which occurred primarily in mainland Europe between the 14th and 17th ...
[32] [35] The alternative eponym, "Saint Vitus Dance", is in reference to Saint Vitus, a Christian saint who was persecuted by Roman emperors and died as a martyr in AD 303. Saint Vitus is considered to be the patron saint of dancers, with the eponym given as homage to the manic dancing that historically took place in front of his statue during ...
"The St. Vitus Dance", an instrumental by Horace Silver from Blowin' the Blues Away, 1959 Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Saint Vitus' dance .
This dancing became popular and the name "Saint Vitus Dance" was given to the neurological disorder Sydenham's chorea. It also led to Vitus being considered the patron saint of dancers and of entertainers in general. [4] He is also said to protect against lightning strikes, animal attacks and oversleeping. His feast day is celebrated on 15 June.
Throughout The Dancing Mania, Hecker describes many of the existing theories at the time, and takes them into consideration when developing his own. [2] St. Vitus' dance (1518) is the outbreak of the dancing plague that was most thoroughly documented, and is the outbreak discussed the most in-depth by Hecker. [6]
Engraving by Hendrik Hondius portraying three people affected by the plague. Work based on original drawing by Pieter Brueghel.. The dancing plague of 1518, or dance epidemic of 1518 (French: Épidémie dansante de 1518), was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace (modern-day France), in the Holy Roman Empire from July 1518 to September 1518.
Saint Vitus (c. 290 – c. 303), a Christian martyr; Vitus Amerbach (1503–1557), German theologian, scholar and humanist; Vitus Ashaba (1943–1985), Ugandan middle-distance runner; Vitus Bering (1617–1675), Danish poet and historian; Vitus Bering (1681–1741), Danish-born Russian navigator; Vitus Eicher (born 1990), German football player
Saint Vitus is an American doom metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1978. [1] They are considered to be one of the first doom metal bands, [ 2 ] and have been labeled as one of the "big four" of that genre, along with Candlemass , Pentagram and Trouble .