tarantism

The Tarantism so common in Italy from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century is another example of epidemic hysteria.

What could account so entirely for his ways and actions as that strange poisoning which produces the state they call Tarantism?

This form of "possession," then, passed out of the supernatural domain, and became known as "tarantism."

One of the best known of these diseases is 'Tarantism,' or the frenzy produced by the bite of the Tarantula, in Italy.

At the close of the fifteenth century Tarantism had spread beyond the borders of Apulia.