Meowing nuns, deadly dancing, and a fever for flowers! Get swept away with Jennifer and Max as they explore maniacal moments from history, when entire populaces were abruptly compelled into incredibly strange behaviors!

Delusions, Madness, and Mania

Show Notes:

Tanzania Laughing Epidemic

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanganyika_laughter_epidemic

https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-22/edition-7/dancing-plagues-and-mass-hysteria

http://listverse.com/2009/03/16/top-10-bizarre-cases-of-mass-hysteria/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-1962-laughter-epidemic-of-tanganyika-was-no-joke

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/09/29/tanganyika-laughter-epidemic-1962-around-1000-people-hysterically-laughing-one-year/

http://rltz.blogspot.com/2007/05/from-central-african-medical-journal.html

https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2013/02/tanganyika-laughter-epidemic-of-1962.html

https://www.amazon.com/Humor-Code-Global-Search-Things/dp/1451665415/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=mcGraw+code+of+humor&qid=1554506380&s=gateway&sr=8-1-spell

The Dancing Plague of 1518

Sources:

https://owlcation.com/humanities/dancing-plague-of-1518

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_plague_of_1518

https://publicdomainreview.org/2018/07/10/the-dancing-plague-of-1518/

https://www.amazon.com/Time-Dance-Die-Extraordinary-Dancing/dp/1848310218/ref=sr_1_2?crid=7C5VLPZPFS1G&keywords=a+time+to+dance+a+time+to+die&qid=1554506328&s=gateway&sprefix=a+time+to+dance+a+tim%2Caps%2C196&sr=8-2

Tulip Mania

Sources:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160419-tulip-mania-the-flowers-that-cost-more-than-houses

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Charles MacKay:

https://www.amazon.com/Extraordinary-Popular-Delusions-Madness-Crowds/dp/1539849589/ref=pd_sbs_14_1/139-3407924-6566600?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1539849589&pd_rd_r=7327f8cb-596c-11e9-9d06-a332060cea22&pd_rd_w=bUYh7&pd_rd_wg=evXyp&pf_rd_p=588939de-d3f8-42f1-a3d8-d556eae5797d&pf_rd_r=ZZ4YYAADV34V9XNGDEBF&psc=1&refRID=ZZ4YYAADV34V9XNGDEBF

Weird Sisters

Sources:

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/02/12/middle-ages-mass-hysteria

https://historycollection.co/12-historys-baffling-mass-hysteria-outbreaks/3/

https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-22/edition-7/dancing-plagues-and-mass-hysteria

The Lille Boarding School Hysteria

Sources:

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles McKay

https://www.amazon.com/Memoirs-Extraordinary-Popular-Delusions-Madness-ebook/dp/B004TP6B1O/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Memoirs+of+Extraordinary+Popular+Delusions+and+the+Madness+of+Crowds&qid=1554763437&s=gateway&sr=8-1

http://www.projectcontinua.org/antoinette-bourignon/

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