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"In 1613, a great number of women of the
district of Ammou, in the vicinity of Aego, were
seized with a convulsive malady,, similar in many
respects to that which prevailed in several convents
of Germany in the preceding century. The out
breaks of this disease manifested themselves,
sometimes by violent muscular contractions,
and symptoms which were taken for those of epi
lepsy; at other times by convulsive outcries re
sembling the barking of dogs, whence it got the
name of " Mai de Laira" The phenomena of
both forms of this convulsive hysterical disease
were regarded as the results of diabolical influences
and obsession,
At one time eighty women in a smaller com
munity laboured under this disease/ barking in the
church like so many dogs, and rendering it im
possible to remain at all collected or composed in
prayer. Delancre, who believed firmly in the
diabolical character of this and most other nervous
disorders, arid who has written an account of the
former, observes, that fortunately it so happened
when the women were in the paroxysms of this
disease induced by sorcery, the patients were in the
habit of crying out the names of those by whom
they had been put into relations with demons and
this was a particular mercy of God to enable the
authorities immediately to seize on the persons of
tho?e who were thus named, and thus vast numbers
were brought to justice who ultimately confessed
their crimes.
During the attack the women of Ammou were
like persons in raging madness. They flung them
selves on the floor, crawled on the ground like
reptiles, and beat their heads, trunks and members
with frightful violence ag^ainst the floor."(Phantasmata: or, Illusions and fanaticisms of Protean forms, productive of great evils
Richard Robert Madden
T. C. Newby, 1857 pages 319-320).
Phantasmata
"In 1613, a great number of women of the
district of Ammou, in the vicinity of Aego, were
seized with a convulsive malady,, similar in many
respects to that which prevailed in several convents
of Germany in the preceding century. The out
breaks of this disease manifested themselves,
sometimes by violent muscular contractions,
and symptoms which were taken for those of epi
lepsy; at other times by convulsive outcries re
sembling the barking of dogs, whence it got the
name of " Mai de Laira" The phenomena of
both forms of this convulsive hysterical disease
were regarded as the results of diabolical influences
and obsession,
At one time eighty women in a smaller com
munity laboured under this disease/ barking in the
church like so many dogs, and rendering it im
possible to remain at all collected or composed in
prayer. Delancre, who believed firmly in the
diabolical character of this and most other nervous
disorders, arid who has written an account of the
former, observes, that fortunately it so happened
when the women were in the paroxysms of this
disease induced by sorcery, the patients were in the
habit of crying out the names of those by whom
they had been put into relations with demons and
this was a particular mercy of God to enable the
authorities immediately to seize on the persons of
tho?e who were thus named, and thus vast numbers
were brought to justice who ultimately confessed
their crimes.
During the attack the women of Ammou were
like persons in raging madness. They flung them
selves on the floor, crawled on the ground like
reptiles, and beat their heads, trunks and members
with frightful violence ag^ainst the floor."(Phantasmata: or, Illusions and fanaticisms of Protean forms, productive of great evils
Richard Robert Madden
T. C. Newby, 1857 pages 319-320).
Phantasmata
