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Mass hysteria:
Notable cases[edit]
Cat nuns (France, Middle Ages)[edit]
A convent of nuns began to meow like cats and others followed until all would meow together at a certain time for several hours together. This continued until the surrounding village called soldiers to threaten the nuns to stop their singing.[7]
Europe (15th century)[edit]
A nun in a German convent began to bite her companions, and the behavior spread through other convents in Germany, into Holland and as far as Italy.[7]
Dancing Plague of 1518[edit]
The Dancing Plague of 1518 was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace (then part of the Holy Roman Empire) in July 1518. Numerous people took to dancing for days without rest, and, over the period of about one month, some of the people died from heart attack, stroke, or exhaustion.[8]
Salem witch trials (1692–93)[edit]
Adolescent girls Abigail Williams, Betty Parris, Ann Putnam, Jr., and Elizabeth Hubbard began to have fits that were described by a minister as "beyond the power of Epileptic Fits or natural disease to effect."[9] The events resulted in the Salem witch trials, a series of hearings and executions of 25 citizens of Salem and nearby towns accused of witchcraft. The episode is one of America's most notorious cases of mass hysteria, and has been used in political rhetoric and popular literature as a vivid cautionary tale about the dangers of isolationism, religious extremism, false accusations and lapses in due process.[10]
Würzburg (1749)[edit]
An outbreak of screaming, squirming and trance in a nunnery led to the execution of a suspected witch.[11]
Basel and Gross-tinz "Writing Tremor Epidemic" (1892,1904)[edit]
The right hand of a ten-year-old girl in Gross-tinz began trembling, which developed into full-body seizures that spread to nineteen other students.
That same year, a similar epidemic affected 20 in Basel, Switzerland. Twelve years later, the Basel school experienced another outbreak that affected 27 students. Legend of the first outbreak was said to have played a role.[12]
Montreal (1894)[edit]
Sixty students at a ladies' seminary suffered an outbreak of fits and seizures. Some for as long as 2 months. [12]
Meissen "Trembling Disease" (1905-6)[edit]
An estimated 237 children were afflicted between October 1905 and May 1906.[12]
Miracle of the Sun (1917)[edit]
The Miracle of the Sun, in which people saw visions of the sun "dancing" and pulsating in Fatima, Portugal in 1917, have been controversially suggested to be an example of mass hysteria.[citation needed]
Halifax Slasher (1938)[edit]
The Halifax Slasher was the name given to a supposed attacker of residents, mostly women, of the town of Halifax, England in November 1938. The week-long scare began after two women claimed to have been attacked by a mysterious man with a mallet and "bright buckles" on his shoes.[13] Further reports of attacks by a man wielding a knife or a razor followed. The situation became so serious that Scotland Yard was called in to assist the Halifax police.[14]
On November 29 one of the alleged victims admitted that he had inflicted the damage upon himself for attention. Others soon had similar admissions, and the Yard investigation concluded that none of the attacks had been real. Five local people were subsequently charged with public mischief offenses, and four were sent to prison.[13]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_hysteria
[Edited on August 15, 2016 at 2:29 AM. Reason : ] 8/15/2016 2:28:14 AM
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