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CHOREOMANIA Mania or impulse that gave groups of up to thousands of people to dance without being able to stop, until they fell faint, with wounds and injuries to the legs, heart attacks or reach death. These events occurred in Europe between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries. It was called the dance of St. Vitus because of the convulsions he suffered in his legs during his martyrdom.

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