This collective frenzy began in the area where the Miskito people live, and suddenly a strange ailment was discovered here, very similar to mass psychosis. A person suddenly for no reason falls into a panic, begins to literally go crazy, while striving to cripple himself at all costs. All this looks scary and mystically incomprehensible, why the inhabitants of this land of Nicaragua seriously believe that the mysterious obsession comes from the devil himself. Unfortunately, doctors are unable to cope with this disease and do not even understand its nature, which is why the belief in obsession only strengthens.
Note that mass psychosis is not such a rarity on our planet. The most famous and brightest is considered the "dancing plague", which struck Europe in the first half of the 16th century, when people also suddenly began to dance for no apparent reason and could not stop from this obsession. Moreover, the obsession in a crazy dance, like today, was also very similar to an infectious disease, since it was transmitted from one person to another, which is why, for example, several hundred people danced uncontrollably on the streets of Strasbourg, for example, soon after its manifestation, and the city authorities could do nothing to stop this strange coven. Even then, medicine was powerless to do anything, and even now it does not understand anything about this mysterious "epidemic". As a rule, such mass psychoses go away by themselves, just as "suddenly" as they begin. But what is it?..