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Adding to GG-2026-056 — Dancing Plague of 1518.

Open research question

Determine which commonly repeated details, such as participant numbers, mortality estimates, and the identity of the earliest dancers, are supported by contemporary records and which entered the narrative through later retellings or historical interpretation.

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