Mass Hysteria: The Medieval Dancing Plague

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If your friends jumped off a bridge would you do it too? Meowing nuns, spasming school girls and deadly dancefloors all spotlight this week’s episode about mass hysteria, the contagious condition which causes baffling behaviors in big bewildered bunches.

This week we discuss:
Mass Psychogenic Illness
Meowing Nuns
Biting Nuns
Tremoring School Girls
Symptoms and Spread
The 1518 Dancing Plague
Frau Troffea
Saint Vitus
Psychology of Groupthink
Fascisms of David Bowie
Carl Jung

In the extended episode available at www.Patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we discuss:
The Entire Story of Our Lady of Fatima
The Miracle of the Sun
Faith Healing
Disinformation and Censorship
The Electoral College
The NPC meme
Anton Lavey’s Good-Guy Badge
The Book of the Law

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Sources:

Meowing Nuns:
http://www.theoccultmuseum.com/the-strange-story-of-nuns-that-meowed-like-cats-and-7-other-cases-of-mass-hysteria/

Fatima:
https://fatimachurchabq.org/our-lady-of-fatima-miracle

Dancing Plague:
https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-dancing-plague-of-1518

The Devil’s Notebook:
https://www.amazon.com/Devils-Notebook-Anton-Szandor-LaVey/dp/0922915113

Book of the Law:
https://www.sacred-texts.com/oto/engccxx.htm

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