{"id":73988,"date":"2021-01-07T07:27:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T07:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/?p=73988"},"modified":"2023-11-01T05:01:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T05:01:27","slug":"tarantism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/tarantism\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarantism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wild dancing mania, prevalent in the thirteenth century in Western Europe; supposedly caused by the bite of a tarantula.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A disorder that is culturally specific to regions of Italy and Northern .Africa, marked by stupor, melancholy, and uncontrollable, manic dancing. 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