I was sitting and reading through a German historical piece yesterday, which was recorded/written in the 1780s in Germany.
The topic? This was a historical writing....going back to the 1500s of Germany, and laid out this unusual story.
At some point....a Catholic Church nun....had undergone some type of mental breakdown, or hallucination....causing her to bite co-worker nuns.
The chief problem with this hysteria story....it doesn't state the location where it started, or how biting came up as a 'fix-it' to the problem.
The story simply started out, and became local gossip. Then regional gossip. And I would assume over a year or two....national gossip.
The problem here....even among other Catholic Church nun establishments.....blame and bullying started up, and more acts of biting were recorded. At some point, it even crossed over into the Netherlands and became a 'fad' there.
How the fad ended? No one really states a conclusion to this trend of crazy nuns biting people.
I doubt if they passed a law to forbid biting. It might have been the case where enough biting nuns were beaten enough.....to realize it's not that great of a fad. It's possible that the Pope just put out a standing....'God forbids biting' and people accepted that.
The thing here is.....we need hysteria to occasionally occur....to reset our public perception of things, and to entertain society about nutty behavior.
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