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bigdaddysaints said:
Today i learned there was a Dancing Plague of 1518 in a city in (now)France.
One woman just started dancing erratically in the town center, others joined in, it grew to about 400 people and lasted about 2 months and was said that about 15 people died per day during.. it's considered to have been mass Hysteria...
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Did they tell you or find out that one possible major reason for the cause of this mass hysteria taking place was a viral, hallucinagetic fungi, similar to ergot that was easily found in raw, rye bread and can cause frightening, terrifying hallucinations, powerful delusions and in the case of many of those sick, dancing French villagers in 1518, might've caused a highly contagious fever that broke out and one of it's symptoms is where those suffering exhibit, exhibit or engage in odd, erratic behavior. Their are some forms of fever, flu that run the sufferer's temperature so high that they try and take their clothes off, which actually makes things much worse..

There was also a breakout of drug-induced, mass hysteria that occured in IIRC, 1948-49 in a small French provincial city Saint-aus-Supre near the French/Swiss border where its believed a wide batch of poisoned rye bread filled with ergot infected more then 20-25 people, some of them suffered major hospitalizations, confinement in psychiatric facilities from LSD-like unprepared acid trips that burned and freaked them out.

It's also been suggested by some conspiracy theorists that the CIA and drug researchers were clandestinely using its nearby Sandoz research facility (where LSD was accidentally created in 1943) in Switzerland to travel across the border into southern France to spike the local food and water supply of Sant-aus-Spree as unwilling guinea pigs and because the city's local government was leftist in late 1940's, making a bunch of leftist local French citizens lose their minds in a major drug-induced mass hysteria wasnt too big of a risk or a loss, according to these same conspiracy theorists.
 
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Saintman2884 said:
Did they tell you or find out that one possible major reason for the cause of this mass hysteria taking place was a viral, hallucinagetic fungi, similar to ergot that was easily found in raw, rye bread and can cause frightening, terrifying hallucinations, powerful delusions and in the case of many of those sick, dancing French villagers in 1518, might've caused a highly contagious fever that broke out and one of it's symptoms is where those suffering exhibit, exhibit or engage in odd, erratic behavior. Their are some forms of fever, flu that run the sufferer's temperature so high that they try and take their clothes off, which actually makes things much worse..

There was also a breakout of drug-induced, mass hysteria that occured in IIRC, 1948-49 in a small French provincial city Saint-aus-Supre near the French/Swiss border where its believed a wide batch of poisoned rye bread filled with ergot infected more then 20-25 people, some of them suffered major hospitalizations, confinement in psychiatric facilities from LSD-like unprepared acid trips that burned and freaked them out.

It's also been suggested by some conspiracy theorists that the CIA and drug researchers were clandestinely using its nearby Sandoz research facility (where LSD was accidentally created in 1943) in Switzerland to travel across the border into southern France to spike the local food and water supply of Sant-aus-Spree as unwilling guinea pigs and because the city's local government was leftist in late 1940's, making a bunch of leftist local French citizens lose their minds in a major drug-induced mass hysteria wasnt too big of a risk or a loss, according to these same conspiracy theorists.
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Sailorsaint said:
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that was one of the episodes i be watched on the Dan Aykroyd show. (his voice commentary is much better than this one)
the same episode also had a poodle fall out of high balcony 13 floors , landing on the head of a woman, killed both instantly. a in lady across the street saw it happen. as she was crossing the street, she was hit by a bus and died. a man coming out of the pharmacy picking up his heart medicine saw it all happen and died of a heart attack.
Chachi the poodle took 3 people with him .
 
bigdaddysaints said:
Today i learned there was a Dancing Plague of 1518 in a city in (now)France.
One woman just started dancing erratically in the town center, others joined in, it grew to about 400 people and lasted about 2 months and was said that about 15 people died per day during.. it's considered to have been mass Hysteria...
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Somehow, some way, Guido was involved.
 

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