• Mytune, IL 1944 (man dressed in black, paralizing victims)
  • Strausberg, Germany 1518 (uncontrollable dancing)
  • Vertsberg, Germany 1749 (nuns)
  • Austria (nuns meowing)
  • Tanganyika (now Tanzania), where an epidemic of contagious laughter broke out 1963 
  • Mexico (600 paralized girls) 2006

Research riots

  • Stravinsky's Rite of Spring riot 1910
  • wapedia references:
    • Dancing mania (e.g. Dancing Plague of 1518)
    • Dennō Senshi Porygon
    • Fan death
    • The Gorbals Vampire
    • Halifax Slasher
    • London Monster
    • Mad Gasser of Mattoon
    • Morangos com Açúca
    • New Delhi monkeyman
    • Penis panic
    • Salem witch trials
    • Satanic Ritual Abuse
    • Spring Heeled Jack
    • Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic
    • The War of The Worlds, a radio broadcast that allegedly caused mass hysteria
    • Villejuif leaflet, mass panic after false rumours of carcinogens in common foods
    • Day care sex abuse hysteria
    • Bandwagon effect
    • Collective behavior
    • Collective effervescence
    • Conversion syndrome
    • Crowd psychology
    • Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by
    • Charles Mackay
    • Folie à deux
    • Group behaviour
    • Herd behavior
    • Hysterical contagion
    • Mean world syndrome
    • Moral panic
    • Witch-hunt
    • Fears

 *Google: mass hysteria, mob mentality, sociology, group think, collective memory, riots, mass suicides, brain washing....

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