Alaina
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635 appearances
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard May 2025
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They have by the spider.
And it happens in the heat of summer. I like that it reactivates in the heat of the summer. Yeah. Like summer, we're going to get crazy with it. Like let's party. Yeah. Makes sense. And it's called tarantism. And it's most often girls and young women are afflicted. Probably because they're like hysteria. Am I right? Yeah.
i'm so random yeah uh and that's when it got labeled hysteria when they were like oh girls and young women get it yeah hysteria uh like the dancing plagues there was no identifiable cause of the tarantism because like a tarantula bite doesn't cause this so like there's no reason for this but they just believed it to be like a mass like psychogenic illness which is even scarier yeah a little bit it's
In the end, that kind of is what it feels like it is.
Like a way better version. A much better version. Way better. Yeah. So the early instances of the dancing plagues were pretty limited in size and scope. And they were, again, like limited to specific locations. But then came 1374, y'all. An outbreak of dancing mania started in a German city of Aachen, I believe it is. And it eventually spread to other cities outside of Germany. So it's happening.
Dancing everywhere.
Some of them were, and then some of them would start at the end of the next one, and it was just like a continuous thing. Yeah, like a wave in a stadium. The outbreak of 1374, sometimes referred to as St. John's Dance, began like the others. So it was like a small group... forming a circle in the town square, starting to dance with each other.
But the thing that keeps happening with these is they start to dance and it's like fine. And then they get more frenzied and it just like loses all control. And that's what they lose control of their senses. They don't care who's near them. They are like whirling around, like looking like they're in like a state of just like ecstasy. Like it's like a trance.
Like a straight up rave.
You're like, I had this. That was it. Some would dance for hours. Some would dance for days at a time, not stopping. Not stopping to eat, drink, sleep, piss, anything. Damn. So there's the answer.
And when they did finally stop, the dancers all spoke of some undeniable compulsion to dance. And then they would complain of extreme oppression and groaned as if in the agonies of death. What? And then they would groan until they were swathed in clothes bound tightly around their waists.
It's a lot. It is. You know? You need one of those little rollerball things.
Just get it all out.
Or that little machine we have that can like get a tight muscle out. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So a short time later, the dancers' pain would subside because they would get the rollerball or do whatever they needed to do. When they finished Zumba. And they remained pain-free until the next compulsion came over them, and then it would keep happening.
Like, they would go through periods of time where they were fine, and then they'd just start dancing a fool again. Oh, no.
I think they were in like a trance. So I don't think they could even remember. They didn't know. They just felt the pain afterwards. Damn. Which sucks. Yeah. But within a few weeks, that plague, the St. John's dance plague, had spread to Liege, Utrecht, and Tongres. Those places. Those places. And then further out to towns in Belgium and the Netherlands. Wow.
And according to one account, they danced together ceaselessly for hours or days and in wild delirium. The dancers collapsed and fell to the ground exhausted, groaning and sighing as if in the agonies of death. And many later claimed that they had seen, this is literally my favorite thing I've ever heard, by the way. I'm so excited.
Many of them claimed that they had seen the walls of heaven split open and that Jesus and the Virgin Mary had appeared before them. Were they dancing? Were Jesus and Mary dancing?
I cannot say. I cannot say.
But the walls of heaven split open during this dancing session.
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