Dancing Plague of 1518: Mass Hysteria History
July 1518. Strasbourg. A woman named Frau Troffea walked outside and startedvdancing. There was no music. She had not planned it. She simply began moving and could not stop. Six…
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Green Children of Woolpit: Medieval Mystery
It was harvest season. The reapers were working the fields near Woolpit, that unremarkable village in Suffolk whose name came from the old Anglo-Saxon word for wolf traps, and what…
Inanna: The Goddess History Erased
Picture a goddess standing at the gate of the underworld. Not trembling. Notbargaining. Just standing, stripped of her crown, her robes, and her divine regalia, layer bylayer at each of…