1. Dancing Death
July 1518, a woman named Frau Troffea travel on one narrow street in Strasbourg, France, and began to dance that lasted for about four or six consecutive days. At the end of the week, 34 people participated in the dance, and in a month, participants of this bizarre dance 400. Officials advised to "dancing more often" to heal the dancers, but at the end of summer, dozens of people in the Alsatian city had died of heart attacks, strokes, fatigue because the dances are not stopped altogether. For several centuries, the strange happenings so-called dance or epidemic outbreak in 1518, the same can not be explained by different scientists about what caused the strange dance of death and magic.
2. Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic
Perhaps the most bizarre events which succeeded in documenting the mass psychogenic illness is Laughter Epidemic Tanganyika in 1962. Complete incidence of this condition is described in a paper published in the Central African Journal of Medicine published in 1963. This outbreak began with the becandaan among the students in one dormitory in Tanzania, and from it, one girl began to laugh uncontrollably. Read More
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