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Exactly. Didn't help them. Now, it's from this like second telling of that story that the affliction got the name Koros Mania, which is Greek and it translates to dancing madness. And now it's more well known as Saint Vitus Dance. So he gets to be named in the affliction. That's fun. Yeah.

Exactly. Didn't help them. Now, it's from this like second telling of that story that the affliction got the name Koros Mania, which is Greek and it translates to dancing madness. And now it's more well known as Saint Vitus Dance. So he gets to be named in the affliction. That's fun. Yeah.

Now over time, the terminology would change a little bit, but the behavior would end up being called chorea, which is an actual disorder. And it's incorrectly that, like referred to as that, because this disorder, chorea, is a disorder of the central nervous system that causes like irregular, like brief jerking moment, like movements, but it's not dancing. Like it's just- They meant choreo.

Now over time, the terminology would change a little bit, but the behavior would end up being called chorea, which is an actual disorder. And it's incorrectly that, like referred to as that, because this disorder, chorea, is a disorder of the central nervous system that causes like irregular, like brief jerking moment, like movements, but it's not dancing. Like it's just- They meant choreo.

Yeah, it's just, they meant choreo and then chorea is not that.

Yeah, it's just, they meant choreo and then chorea is not that.

So if you ever hear somebody say it, you correct them if you ever hear them saying it. I'm sure it comes up a lot.

So if you ever hear somebody say it, you correct them if you ever hear them saying it. I'm sure it comes up a lot.

So these two early examples were contained to Germany. But a similar form of hysteria that kind of had similar symptoms to it was known as Tarentism, and it emerged in the 13th century in Italy. And according to Robert Bartholomew, which I am obsessed with the name Bartholomew. Same, I love it a lot. Why isn't it used anymore? I don't know.

So these two early examples were contained to Germany. But a similar form of hysteria that kind of had similar symptoms to it was known as Tarentism, and it emerged in the 13th century in Italy. And according to Robert Bartholomew, which I am obsessed with the name Bartholomew. Same, I love it a lot. Why isn't it used anymore? I don't know.

He said, people asleep or awake would suddenly jump up, feeling an acute pain like the sting of a bee. Some saw the spider, others did not, but they knew that it must be from the tarantula. Like capital T, the spider? The spider. Okay, not a spider. Nope. The spider. The only spider. The only spider. They ran out of the house into the street to the marketplace dancing in great excitement.

He said, people asleep or awake would suddenly jump up, feeling an acute pain like the sting of a bee. Some saw the spider, others did not, but they knew that it must be from the tarantula. Like capital T, the spider? The spider. Okay, not a spider. Nope. The spider. The only spider. The only spider. They ran out of the house into the street to the marketplace dancing in great excitement.

Soon they were joined who like them had been bitten or by people who had been stung in previous years for the disease was never quite cured. The poison remained in the body and reactivated every year in the heat of the summer.

Soon they were joined who like them had been bitten or by people who had been stung in previous years for the disease was never quite cured. The poison remained in the body and reactivated every year in the heat of the summer.

This is amazing.

This is amazing.

I feel like it probably does.

I feel like it probably does.

Let's make it happen. Let's make it. Flash mobs are actually this. Yeah, pretty much.

Let's make it happen. Let's make it. Flash mobs are actually this. Yeah, pretty much.