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Mass madness

Mass madness is group hysteria where a large group has an uncontrollable outburst of emotions or fear, usually irrationally. During the last half of the middle Ages in Europe, A peculiar trend emerged in efforts to understand abnormal behavior. It involved mass madness—the widespread occurrence of group behavior disorders that were apparently cases of hysteria. Whole groups of people affected simultaneously. Dancing manias (epidemics of raving, jumping, dancing, and convulsions) were reported as early as the tenth century.