Writing Tremor Epidemic in Germany and Switzerland
What happened
In 1892, schoolgirls in Groß Tinz, Germany, experienced uncontrollable hand shaking when writing, accompanied by amnesia and altered states. It spread to Basel, Switzerland, the next year. Attributed to mass sociogenic illness amid educational pressures, it highlighted psychogenic outbreaks in youth.
Literary impact
Such schoolgirl hysterias parallel literary motifs of repressed female creativity and bodily rebellion, influencing feminist poetry and modernist depictions of psychological strain in education and society.
Source: Wikipedia
