When all it takes is a mold breakout and suddenly half the town is tripping balls it does make a useful explanation for bizarre shit
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Which ones besides Salem?
at least some of these:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_hysteria_cases
I'm no expert on ergot, but I'd place a small wager on it being involved with the dancing plague and the meowing nuns
Otherwise probably just boredom. There was jackshit fuckall to do back then. Not like now, where you have to spend 3 hours a day in traffic and 9 hours a day fixing your completely fucked npm installation
That's a really interesting list.
I'm surprised how many are presumed to be stress when so many people show the same symptoms.
My guess for a lot would be social, herd mentality. That probably lines up with your boredom idea too.
My guess for a lot would be social, herd mentality. That
And ergot.
Salem wasn't ergot, it was a genocide. Historians only used that as an excuse to justify the atrocities that went down but anyone whose done even a little bit of looking at the situation will know that all the witchcraft stuff was a cover for the red scare purges they were doing.
Of course the american education system isn't going to teach you that because they ultimately side with the Christian fascists.
Sorry, pre-marx red scare? Wasn't aware that was possible...
I know it sound stupid but Marxism predates Marx. Christian fascists have always been against everything it stands for.