Explore: Tarantism

(1997) conclude that the actual cause or causes of tarantism remain unknown. In recent years, tarantism has been defined by its connection to dance and music

Dancing mania (also known as dancing plague, choreomania, St. John's Dance, tarantism and St. Vitus' Dance) was a phenomenon that may have had biological causes

Tarantism is the debut album by Los Angeles rock band Tito & Tarantula, released in 1997. The album was released following the band's growing popularity

tracks ("Torquay" and "White Train"). Lost Tarantism, a collection of unreleased songs from the Tarantism sessions, also arrived that year. The band's

to be highly venomous and to lead to a hysterical condition known as tarantism. This type of dance became known as the tarantella. R. Lowe Thompson proposed

superstition has it that the spider's bite can produce severe symptoms called tarantism. These spiders are rather large, the females being as large as 30 mm (1+3⁄16

In the Middle Ages a condition claimed to arise from spider bites was tarantism, where people danced wildly. While necrosis has been attributed to the

of a prolonged chase and multiple battles with space pirates (including Tarant Shank, generally regarded as the most evil of all), Seto then presented

to body part. Diverse choreas (St. Vitus' dance, St. John's dance, and tarantism) were labeled in the Middle Ages referring to the independent epidemics

are Western culture-bound syndromes. However, this is controversial. Tarantism is an expression of mass psychogenic illness documented in Southern Italy