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The Epidemics of the Middle Ages

J. F. C. Hecker, trans. B. G. Babington (1859)

Public domain

Public domain (pre-1928, 1859 English edition). Classic history of the Black Death, the Dancing Mania, St. Vitus's dance and tarantism, collective hysterical outbreaks which medieval people ascribed to demonic possession and which were treated by exorcism and pilgrimage.

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