Alaina
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635 appearances
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard May 2025
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Oh my God, they're there too?
Just write it on their Yelp page. So were they in the house?
No. I'd just start crying and never stop. Yeah. That's the thing. I don't cry easily. No, you don't. I would start sobbing uncontrollably if I saw a tarantula.
I cry easily. And in my house, I'd never sleep in there again.
Like, with, like, a magnifying glass.
Yeah. He said, actually, no.
That's in Australia, the huntsman spiders. My TikTok has figured out that I hate them, but that I will watch a whole video about one. So it just keeps giving me huntsman spider videos. And apparently you can hear huntsmans walking down the hall. They're so big. And I was like, that's all I need to know. I can't ever go to Australia.
Ever. I die. And people have like house huntsmans where they're just like, oh, that's just like Leroy. he just lives here he takes care of the bugs i'm like who takes care of him though like who he's lawless you get like you're like he takes care of like the mosquitoes i'm like i what i'd rather get bit by a mosquito but like i can't you can't look like that no Oh, I can't.
Spooky. So, yeah, if you ever want that, go to Joshua Tree, apparently, during their mating season. Yeah. Now, people obviously blamed all these manias on either the spider or the devil and other supernatural shit for all the dancing plagues. But lots of religious intervention was obviously brought in to treat them. Yeah. You know, exorcisms and the like.
And in cases where the dancers... This is interesting. So... Because this is kind of very like regional. So it's like they would do these things where it's like the treatments for it were very regional to what they were thinking or believing in that place. But when the dancers were foreign, like not of that area, the regional cultural differences would uphold the belief in demonic possession.
So like... it would always go back to demonic possession. But according to Robert Bartholomew, quote, the behavior of these dancers was described as strange because while exhibiting actions that were part of the Christian tradition, other elements were foreign. And he points to one account that says, in their songs they uttered the names of devils never before heard of, this strange sect.
So how would you know what they were? So it's like... What? So how do you know they're devils, too? Maybe they're gods. Maybe they're angels. Yeah. Maybe they're friends.
Several devils have to be a part of it. Now, demonic possession was really the main suspect in the beginning. But in later plagues, the cause of the mania would often be attributed, because obviously we hear it in the nunnery, it would be attributed to immorality and sin. Particularly those in which the dances were overtly sexual or predominantly performed by... Women!
One description read, they indulged in disgraceful immodesty for many women during the shameful dance and mock bridal singing, bared their bosoms while others of their own accord offered their virtue. Oh, honey. So now these ladies are out there just being like, coming at us. Spruing in the streets. Show an ankle. Damn, show an ankle.
It's like, do you want to hold my hand and dance? And they're like, holy shit. You got to get inside, girl. You got to a nunnery where you can start meowing and propositioning priests.
Now, in later years, such as the dancing plague in Strasbourg, like the really famous one, the events were frequently kind of attributed to madness and hysteria as a whole, especially when they were begun, again, by girls or women.
Historian John Waller says that there is considerable evidence that suggests the dancing plagues and the possession epidemics of Europe's nunneries were in fact classic instances of a very different phenomenon, mass psychogenic illness, which is way scarier to me.
yeah i don't love that like if you're telling me the devil came and made me dance i'm like that's fun like that happens but like mass psychogenic illness what is that so what's the definition of psychogenic illness so that's really like where the term mass hysteria comes from where they can't pinpoint it it's like in the salem witch trials they tried to blame it on like ergot poisoning like fungus on the on the wheat wheat essentially
And that causes, you know, some kind of food poisoning that leads to this like wild illness that everybody just. Like psychosis. You're hallucinating or something. Yeah. I think it's like groupthink. Like I think it's really just you've seen instances of it where like you can get people to do insane things if you just make it a group effort.
And in the majority of cases of dancing plagues, the years we were touching upon this before, the years immediately preceding the events were usually pretty harsh. There was famine, natural disasters, social and political upheaval. In the case of Strasbourg, there was a little thing called the Black Plague that was right before it. Right, right.
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