Today we explore the insane, disturbing and occasionally frickin adorable world of mass psychogenic disorders, aka Mass Hysteria.

Meowing nuns, dancing plagues, dogs and cats living together!! MASS HYSTERIA!!!

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References:

•  The mysterious dancing mania and mass psychogenic illness
•  Tarantism, dancing mania and demonopathy (via pub med)
• 15 cases of mass psychogenic disorder
• Ghost haunts toilet in Bangladesh, sends thousands into mass panic
•  Why does mass hysteria affect mostly women?
•  Mass hysteria at a New York high school
• Mirror Neurons are frickin awesome
•  Women in the middle ages (spoiler: kinda sucked)
• Life as a nun in the middle ages (spoiler: mostly sucked)
• Gender and women's mental health (via the WHO)