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I subscribe on the eye, radio up apple podcast or where ever you get your favorite Welcome to stuff you missed in history class from how Circle of Stockholm. Hello and welcome to the pod cast iron. Editor candid returned by fellow editor. Katy remember, can harm Katy. If you have an already seen at the discovery tale, has a new show called monsters inside me and it's about Paris Another strange and everything to get inside the human body and wreak havoc. Ah Katy. As always. I am so glad for your historical expertise by also today, especially your health expertise, because then doing a lot of research on different mode,

in history where people and the places they live and have been affected by parasite and hand and disease in and plague, and its importance understand that if you have some sort of say parasitic infection, it affects not only your physical wellbeing, but your mental well being too and weakened, half a little bit about contagion actually and we're going to and with an email from the reader who requested this topic, and I'm not to read the entire email like I usually do. Who cares if he's very knowledgeable, and if I read it, I would give away the whole story, but I would like to thank in for his recommendation of our discussion, the dancing plague of fifteen eighteen and if it sounds pretty well. That's because it is unless, of course, you had the dancing plague. In July of fifteen eighteen there was a woman named Frau true. We think that I am not sure. Actually

and she was in Strasbourg, France and all of a sudden. She basically walked out on the street and started dancing. And she didn't stop Now in this century, before Lady Gaga, I saw a curious people are wondering what is causing this woman to dance job Day earthly ever and it went on, for they say between four and six days and by the end of the week, whole bunch of others, who had also caught this mysterious dancing ailment. And if you read accounts of the dancing plague, fifteen eighteen, it sound. Almost like a feeble because He town authorities thought that the best way to cure people as the dancing fever was too courage than he can put an end, not start and again were giggling, because it is a ludicrous they actually erected special stage, a platform for them to dance on and

hired musicians to come in and they got professional dancers to dance alongside them to help put the mob and prompt the mob when they got fatigued and it turns out- very serious because people became so tired from damn thing that they were the talks and strokes and peoples is dropping our due to exhaustion may have a damsel fun episode of its always say in Philadelphia, but these people were not happy. Out the dancing like you would think of them. You know Grendel time within their disc, a fever, but apparently were really afraid and really desperate and couldn't stop like it wasn't a voluntary kind of thing obviously some sort of forest side them with telling them to fail about with no control over their limbs and win I'll descriptions of this particular dancing plague. And there have been plagues noted before by none which way

cited in historical records as specifically and as with the details as this one- and we know from City Council records doctors Innovations and sermons as well the other sources that these people had grimaces on their faces. Their lives were flailing about wildly their facial expression seemed uncontrolled and they were crying out. Invoking its name for help and also the name of virus. Saint invite- think. Vitus was a real person who was murdered in three o three, a d, and the legend goes that if someone provoked his wrath according to a discovery news article, we were reading he would send down plagues and force people to dance and there really is such a thing called Saint- might assistance actually known, as I think side, Korea and has caused by a strict carcass.

Syria, that causes rheumatic fever and basically puts people into convulsions like your arms and legs and torso wall Twistin and contort without your control and people still get this today, the most susceptible to the Where are girls between the ages of five and fifteen who live in developing countries, so the same right as it stands or is there something else that was causing this? This dancing fever there have, a lot of theories proposed and in the nineteen he's Eugene Back men, suggested that the dancers, had ergot poisoning, and you may recall, from an earlier pike ass. We talked about the sale on which trials that Ergo have of small that grows on grain and even our our group has been processed and ground and made into Brad. It still affects people who injustice, so you suggesting that they had ergot poisoning. But

later skull came along and said no, that's exactly right, because the type of facts that ergot has or similar to ours, do something people wouldn't be flailing around. They would be entranced like stay baby, tripping and also maybe contorting, but nothing alibis. Actual dams movement now know for sure, then robber solemn. You later propose that it was this geological phenomenon and the dancers remembers of some sort of rich relies openness is how they express themselves. I think anyone gives much credence to that view, because again these people were really unhappy about what was happening. A neighbor dropping dead right right. People kept pointing back to the fact that no they looked as though they were dancing against their will, even though they couldn't stop so have a different historian who's coming out with a book I believe in September, a time to dance the time to die, and his name is John Waller and his theory is that it

A mass psychogenic, alas, and mothers for about the dancing plague, and he said to be one of the most cited experts about the DMZ blinkered fifteen. Eighteen, I knew that all of the source that I consulted or most of the measures mentioned his name and somewhere whether he was running the article or he was an expert consulted his name is sort of cinema has its dancing plague because he proposed what to be the likeliest explanation for the madness. It was group beliefs turning into collective action basically is the idea behind it and that during to put things in contacts. During that time, a lot was going on and Medieval Europe, including lots and lots of famines, lots of deaths that followed and psychologically the people of the time we're not in a good mind. Now many were suffering from malnutrition and people had been reached.

To begging in the streets, and it was it was very hard to cope as community one could imagine to see your neighbors are dying and basically what what happens with that thing. Is one person gets this mass hysteria. But one person gets the belief and it sort of transmitted the community much like a virus? What being like, you have to think of a sort of up a physical at goes from person to person, as everyone buys into that collective conscious and king for some other x. Levels of this type of contagion. There are plenty out there There's that ten gonna cut laughter epidemic of nineteen sixty two, which is what most people think about when they talking about mass hysteria, which is when as from person to person, as everyone buys into that collective conscious, kept going and going and it does seem

to be something that happens more often to girls and the more recent examples. There is also another one and I'm Chalwa Mexico or six hundred girls at a boarding. What came down with the same mass hysteria evident hysteria affects men as well, the others, a phenomenon earnest Cora core. Oh excuse me, which affects people in Asia and Africa, where the men think that someone has stolen their genitalia and these the thieves can be just people who say come up to the bathroom street and maybe bump against. You were asked directions sharply, that doesn't exist. And then the men report feeling their agenda. Hell yeah either shrink or disappear inside themselves, and you know they'll start yelling about the penis thief and actually several people have been murdered for the supposed Venus thievery and at something can't prove because you'll go to a doctor and, of course, someone's penis though there, because this is a cycle

what kind of thing. But it has really serious implications because, again, several p been killed in two thousand and one Syria there were at least twelve murders of suspected penis thieves, and while these cases can be difficult to study without impure evidence like you would get from perhaps studying a parasite. They should be taken lightly. I mean they may be interesting to listen to you. I know I was certainly fascinated by Latina Theo Van Gogh aid and had been written up in everything from medical journal. Sir, I think you had an article from Harpers, even yeah, it's it's really gripping, but You can see how history plays into these kids. And lightly. I mean they may be interesting to listen to you. I know I was certainly fast like I'd during the time of the cold war, when people fear some sort of retaliation, they would

smelling noxious fumes around them, especially in public places, and people would begin to act. Very. Strangely, groups of people would begin maintaining or they would again having headaches and too, a study, mass hysteria, in conjunction with history. I think is more fully understand the minds of the people who were living in that moment. Uncultured definitely plays a part and to it one article, a saying that they should be called says, eugenic illnesses because without the alter. The onus doesn't exist. So without those people in that place in history, it doesn't exist. Like you know, we'll talk they body does more effect disorder and the United States, but if you're, not in a westernized country, that,

not be something that your worrying about, because that seat of fear was never planted, whereas it would never occur to us worry that our breasts we're going to disappear. But if you lived in another place in a different culture, that would be the kind of thing that you worry about, so that these incites until the sociological, psychological neuralgia, Oh biological, am I missing anything more terrorist cynical were very cynical. Historical on where we going without. So all in all, there is the lists of vehicles. If you will yes, others echoes dared to put it in a non academic way, but that they do Katy said, influence the way that we conceive of history and they something like the very mysterious dancing. Plague are fifteen eighteen and to an actual thing that we can study and try to understand

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