 | England - 1854 - 800 pages
...leaps by which it was characterised, and which gave to those affected, whilst performing theirwild dance, and screaming and foaming with fury, all the appearance of persons possessed. It did not remain confined to particular localities, but was propagated by the sight of... | |
 | Justus Friedrich Carl Hecker - Black Death - 1835 - 502 pages
...astonishment of contemporaries for more that two centuries, since which B time it has never reappeared. It was called the dance of St. John or of St. Vitus,...and foaming with fury, all the appearance of persons possessed. It did not remain confined to particular localities, but was propagated by the sight of... | |
 | Books - 1835 - 618 pages
...of con temporal ies for more than two centuries, since which time it has never re-appeared. It w.is called the dance of St. John or of St. Vitus, on account...and foaming with fury, all the appearance of persons possessed. Itdid not remain confined to particular localities, but was propagated by the sight of the... | |
 | Edward Bascome - Epidemics - 1851 - 268 pages
...astonishment of contemporaries for more than two centuries, since which time it has never re-appeared. It was called the Dance of St. John or of St. Vitus,...and foaming with fury, all the appearance of persons possessed. It did not remain confined to particular localities, but was propagated by the sight of... | |
 | Edward Bascome - 1851 - 270 pages
...Europe. AD 1027, an extraordinary convulsive disease — which was called ' the dance of St. John or St. Vitus,' on account of the Bacchantic leaps by...and foaming with fury, all the appearance of persons possessed, — first showed itself in some persons near the convent church of Kolbig, not far from... | |
 | Scotland - 1854 - 798 pages
...astonishment of contemporaries for more than two centuries, since which time it has never reappeared. It was called the Dance of St. John, or of St. Vitus,...on account of the Bacchantic leaps by which it was characterised, and which gave to those affected, whilst performing their wild dance, and screaming... | |
 | American literature - 1854 - 604 pages
...astonishment of contemporaries for more than two centuries, since which time it has never reappeared. It was called the Dance of St. John, or of St. Vitus, on account of the Bacchautic leaps by which it was characterized, and which gave to those affected, whilst performing... | |
 | 1866 - 900 pages
...astonishment of contemporaries for more than two centuries, since which time it has never reappeared. It was called the dance of St. John or of St. Vitus,...and foaming with fury, all the appearance of persons possessed. It was propagated by the sight of the sufferers, like a demoniacal epidemic, over the whole... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1866 - 828 pages
...astonishment of contemporaries for more than two centuries, since which time it has never reappeared. It was called the dance of St. John or of St. Vitus,...which it was characterized, and which gave to those aflected, while performing their wild dance, and screaming and foaming with fury, all the appearance... | |
 | 1885 - 72 pages
...astonishment of contemporaries for more than two centuries, since which time it has never reappeared. It was called the dance of St. John or of St. Vitus,...was characterized, and which gave to those affected, while performing their wild dance, and screaming and foaming with fury, all the appearance of persons... | |
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It was called the dance of St. John, or of St. Vitus, on account of the Bacchantic leaps by which it was characterized, and which gave to those affected, whilst performing their wild dance and screaming and foaming with fury, all the appearance of persons... 
