tarantism
June 30th 2006 00:43
(TAR-un-tizm) noun.
An uncontrollable urge to dance.
Tarantism is, allegedly, a deadly envenomation resulting from the bite of a kind of wolf spider called a "tarantula". The condition was common in southern Italy during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The stated belief of the time was that victims needed to engage in frenzied dancing to prevent death from tarantism. Supposedly a particular kind of dance, called the Tarantella, evolved from this therapy.
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An uncontrollable urge to dance.
Dancing (from Wikipedia)
* This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Tarantism.
** Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. It originated from the Wikipedia page for Dancing.
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