Ep 45 Oddities of Mass Hysteria

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Imperative Entertainment

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.5 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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In a German convent near the River Rhine in the 15th century, a nun started biting her fellow sisters who, in turn, began biting other nuns. Soon, the convent was full of holy servants uncontrollably biting each other. From there, it spread to other convents throughout the region. Physicians at the time could find no medical reason to explain the bizarre behavior and it would be a while before the term “mass hysteria” was coined. The biting eventually subsided, but that wouldn’t be the last time a large group of people experienced a collective psychological episode, nor would it be the strangest. Not even close. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:55.2	Strassburg, France, mid-July, 1518.
1:00.7	A local woman, some sources call her Fraud Trophia, began to dance.
1:04.6	It was by all accounts a beautiful sunny day.
1:09.2	But there was no music playing, and there was no local wedding or celebration.
1:11.9	She just randomly started to dance.
1:21.6	And dance, she did, for six days with no rest or pause. One by one, others started to join in.
1:29.7	By the end of the week, 30 others had joined her. Shortly after, she amassed a crowd of over a hundred people.
1:36.8	By the end of August, the crowd of dancers had expanded to 400. No one could work out what was happening, or, more importantly, why. What they could see, however, was that the dancers were not
1:43.5	having any fun.
1:45.9	One source said, they danced together ceaselessly for hours or days, and in wild
1:51.4	elyrium the dancers collapsed and fell to the ground exhausted, groaning and sighing as if in
1:56.8	the agonies of death.
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