DANCING MANIA
\dˈansɪŋ mˈe͡ɪniə], \dˈansɪŋ mˈeɪniə], \d_ˈa_n_s_ɪ_ŋ m_ˈeɪ_n_i__ə]\
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By Robley Dunglison
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which spread through a large part of Middle Europe in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, a wild delirium, with religious delusions. Similar were the tarantism of S. Italy, the leaping ague of Scotland, the dance of St. Weit (St. Vitus), and many other phenomena.
By Henry Percy Smith
