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The full translated English title is The Dancing Mania, an epidemic of the Middle Ages: from the sources for physicians and erudite non-physicians (in short, The Dancing Mania). Hecker combines multiple sources about the dancing mania (also known as the dancing plague, choreomania, St. John's dance, St. Vitus' dance or tarantism ), an epidemic ...
Dancing mania on a pilgrimage to the church at Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, a 1642 engraving by Hendrick Hondius after a 1564 drawing by Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Dancing mania (also known as dancing plague, choreomania, St. John's Dance, tarantism and St. Vitus' Dance) was a social phenomenon that may have had biological causes, which occurred primarily in mainland Europe between the 14th and 17th ...
Engraving by Hendrik Hondius portraying three people affected by the plague. Work based on original drawing by Pieter Brueghel.. The dancing plague of 1518, or dance epidemic of 1518 (French: Épidémie dansante de 1518), was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace (modern-day France), in the Holy Roman Empire from July 1518 to September 1518.
The earliest studied cases linked with epidemic hysteria are the dancing manias of the Middle Ages, including St. John's dance and tarantism. These were supposed to be associated with spirit possession or the bite of the tarantula. Those with dancing mania would dance in large groups, sometimes for weeks at a time.
[4] [5] He helped with the creation of the Dance Mania label with Ray Barney as well as creating the sound of ghetto house in the Chicago area. [6] Boyd released his debut EP in 1994, named "Funk City". [7] After "Funk City", he released "Freak Like Me" in 1996, which is regarded as his most successful work. [7]
The -mania suffix is also used to describe immense appreciations and fandoms that are not necessarily psychological, including popular culture and politics. Bartmania – American television series The Simpsons (particularly character Bart Simpson), early 1990s; Beatlemania – English band the Beatles, 1960s
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