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I sent to bed thinking about dinomania vx dynomania, and caradea's loganamnosis set in. Still think it should be loganamnesis. Anyhow, in the middle of the night I was awakened by recollection of wild music, and hundreds of people dancing in the streets in extreme south-east of Italy. TARANTISM1111111
epidemic in the vicinity of TARANTO; pop. assoc. with the tarantula, by whose bite it was erroneously said to be caused6 a nervous disease characterized by hysteria and popularly believed to be curable by dancing or manifested by a mania for dancing: prevalent in S Italy during the 16th and 17th cent.
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