Answer: tarantism

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tarantismA 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
tarantisma dancing mania or malady of late medieval Europe, attributed popularly to the bite of a tarantula
tarantisma mania characterized by an uncontrollable impulse to dance.