actually, it wasn't ergot poisioning. because while ergot poisioning does all those things, there is no way it could have consistently had the symptom of dancing. what its actually been attributed to is mass hysteria caused by the horrible conditions people were living in. this was the time of bubonic plague, syphilis, the english sweat, etc. lots of death, poor health care, and alot of doom and hellfire from the church, which was corrupt and people at the time knew it. so when one person went into hysteric dancing, it was enough to push everyone else over the edge.
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