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The dance you do to sweat out a spider bite before it kills you.
medical originBelieved to cure venomous tarantula bites by frantic dancing
name sourceNamed for Taranto, a town in southern Italy
mass maniaTriggered group dancing epidemics across medieval Europe
tempoWild 6/8 rhythm that speeds up relentlessly
likely culpritSymptoms blamed on spiders may have been hysteria