How To Use Tarantism In A Sentence
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Dr. Mead, above mentioned, gave a curious description of the symptoms of tarantism.
Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery
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tarantism," which was supposed to originate in the bite of the tarantula.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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Although the popular belief that tarantism results from a spider bite persists, it remains scientifically unsubstantiated.
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Almost simultaneous with the dance of ` ` St. With, '' there appeared in Italy and Arabia a mania very similar in character which was called ` ` tarantism, '' which was supposed to originate in the bite of the tarantula.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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It is certain, however, that tarantism was very prevalent in earlier times.
Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery
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One of the oldest documents on the subject of tarantism, Ferdinando Ponzetti's Sertum Papale De Venensis (1362), had suggested that the victims of shade-dwelling spiders were hostages to the music of the tarantula's bite, to its 'cantum tempore'.
Boing Boing: January 29, 2006 - February 4, 2006 Archives
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In many families naming tarantism was taboo, reflecting this ambiguity between condemnation and belief.
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The belief system behind tarantismo died out decades ago, but the three-day festival of Saints Peter and Paul at the end of June is still the best place to get a contemporary view of the customs once associated with it: especially compelling is the late-night phenomenon known as le ronde, improvised street performances of dance and music.
Puglia's Fiery Pizzica
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From the 17th century to the 20th there was apparently great communal tarantism, in which whole towns would suddenly give themselves over to wild dancing, and the musicians had a profitable time.
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Indeed, Dr.H. Chomet, who diligently investigated the matter, never succeeded in finding a case of tarantism, nor was he able even to obtain a glimpse of one of these insects.
Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery
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These effects consisted of a feigned or imaginary disease known as tarantism, which was prevalent in Apulia and other portions of southern Italy during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery
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Many physicians and historians have written on this subject, and with singular unanimity have endorsed music as a curative agent for tarantism.
Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery
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Music, as a cure for tarantism, 197-200; as a medicine, 189; at banquets, 180-184; at hospitals, 193; distasteful to some persons, 186; healing influence of, 172-200.
Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery
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His study of tarantism, for instance, ignored traditional academic boundaries, making use of a team of scholars - a psychologist, a musicologist, a sociologist - with himself in the guiding position as historian-ethnologist.
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This form of "possession," then, passed out of the supernatural domain, and became known as "tarantism.
A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
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A variation of tarantism spread throughout much of Europe between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries, where it was known as the dancing mania or St. Vitus's dance, on account of participants often ending their processions in the vicinity of chapels and shrines dedicated to this saint.