tarantism
/ˈtærəntɪzəm/noun
mass noun
- a psychological illness characterized by an extreme impulse to dance, prevalent in southern Italy from the 15th to the 17th century, and widely believed at the time to have been caused by the bite of a tarantula毒蜘蛛舞蹈症, 他兰登毒蜘蛛病。
词源
mid 17th cent.: from Italian tarantismo, from the name of the seaport TARANTO, after which the tarantula is also named. Compare with TARANTELLA.