Clotting is a strange ailment that was encountered in the old days, and only in Russia. And today, on television, in programs dedicated to everything inexplicable and supernatural, one can hear about women in whom the devil allegedly took over. However, psychiatrists believe that whooperism is just a form of hysteria.
Key features
Flavor is a phenomenon that was first recorded at the beginning of the 17th century. It sometimes had a mass character. What does the tapas mean? A disease in whose origin superstitious people see the intervention of dark forces. The disease is characterized by hysterical seizures. During these attacks, the sufferer makes violent cries.
Russian North - the epicenter of the flavors
This disease was observed mainly in women. Especially many cases were observed in Smolensk, Novgorod, Tula, Vologda and Moscow provinces. In the northwestern and southwestern regions of the country, there was no pure gibberish. However, in the Russian North and Siberia this was a fairly common occurrence. Moreover, they singled out a special, widespread form expressed by "languid hiccups." What is the reason for such a strange geographical spread of the disease is unknown.
Among the unfortunate people who knew this unpleasant ailment, teenagers from the age of 12 were often met. There was an opinion that the flare-up is inherited. Demoness is something else. One can already understand from the name that this phenomenon, according to the generally accepted opinion, was related to the other world. However, possessedness was much less common than clicky.
The meaning of the word can be found in the Dahl dictionary. One of the obsolete verbs is to click. From him came the name of the phenomenon, which is discussed in today's article. To click is to cry, scream, broadcast, proclaim, announce.
Personality traits
Scientists have studied cannabis as a mental illness for several centuries. And here is what was discovered. Attacks at the clicker did not occur suddenly. The first fit is usually preceded by a “precursor period”. It begins with a change in personality.
Whooper is becoming irritable, sad, restless. It is easily influenced by fear, which, in the opinion of others, has no foundation. Often feels longing and causeless hatred of people, even relatives, whom she had loved before.
Harbingers of disease
Future clicks often suffer from dizziness, insomnia, weakness, heaviness in the head, and darkening in the eyes. Other phenomena join these symptoms - often there is bloating and strange sensations in it.
There was, and still is, the opinion that the click is a victim of corruption. What measures have people taken before in the fight against this emotional illness? When the symptoms described above occurred in a woman, the following occurred. Relatives, neighbors, and acquaintances gathered, began to discuss, and conjecture as to who had caused the corruption. A person who aroused particular suspicion was placed under surveillance. Hundreds of eyes watched his movements, listened to his speeches. Each, even quite seemingly well-meaning act was explained solely by malicious goals.
Who is guilty?
And here comes the first fit. The clicker begins to scream and at the same time pronounce the name of the person who caused the damage. After that, all doubts dissipate. Already, neighbors, relatives, and friends know that the culprit of a terrible ailment is Mary, Thekla, or Daria.
Most attacks of clicks occurred in the church. Having convinced herself of the presence of an evil spirit in herself, she began to unconsciously experience fear of everything related to religion. Klikusha avoided church services, and once in the temple, she suddenly felt ill.
Scary seizures
What is an attack? The patient begins to worry, she feels as if something had squeezed her chest, throat. Breathtaking. All this is accompanied by dizziness, in the end, the whooper is falling to the ground. There are wild, long cries. They are interrupted by accelerated breathing, they hear a terrible roar, lowing, sometimes sobbing and dog barking.
The patient beats convulsively with hands and feet, pounds himself and others. It happens, bites, grinds teeth, while making sharp movements and it is impossible to keep it. A clicker in a fit spews out terrible curses, repeats the same words and, as has already been said, shouts out the name of the person who is responsible for her troubles. The attack passes after a while. Convulsions cease, tears begin, fainting, and finally deep sleep. As a rule, the clicker does not remember what happened to her during the attack.
In between attacks
The seizure usually lasts 10-15 minutes. True, it happens that a clicker cannot come to his senses for several hours. In the intervals between attacks, the patient increasingly develops irritability, anxiety, insomnia and apathy. She ceases to take care of herself, becomes untidy, sloppy.
Recovery from this strange ailment occurred previously in approximately 20% of cases. In the rest, the disease lasted for many years, and sometimes all his life. Klikushes visited monasteries, sometimes they spent the last money in order to get rid of a strange ailment. Such women became a burden for their relatives.
The picture of a seizure even in an educated, intelligent person provokes superstitious thoughts. It is easy to imagine what impression she made about 100 years ago in a deep village, most of whose inhabitants did not even know the letter.
The opinion of doctors
Clackiness manifested itself not only in individual cases, but also in the form of an epidemic. What is the reason for this phenomenon is unknown today. Although, according to the opinion of one prominent professor of medicine, the basis of the hysteria is nothing but hysteria. Some psychiatrists believe that the cause is somnambulism.
What is the difference between demoniac and clickers? First of all, during the attacks, the first ones do not shout out any names, do not blame for spoilage, but cast out third-person curses. Seizures in the possessed always occur in the church. Moreover, they blaspheme, shout the most disgusting curses, spit on the icons. From a medical point of view, possessed women are hysterics who are convinced that the devil has taken hold of them.
Hooter under Peter I
The great reformer probably did not believe in rumors that the cause of this strange ailment was corruption. In 1715, Peter I issued a decree stating that clickfish should be sought and punished. The fact is that in strange seizures the emperor saw only pretense, a desire to slander an innocent person.
Who should have been engaged in the search for clicks? This activity was assigned to the bishops. They should certainly have reported the facts of the clicker to the appropriate authorities. Otherwise, the bishops lost their holy dignity.
There are no exact answers to the question of what is clickism. But what is the cause of the strange ailment that mostly women suffered? An interesting point of view was expressed in Dostoevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov. The reason for the flabber, according to one of the heroes, is in the difficult life that village women led. For many years they worked hard, but did not have medical assistance. Childbirth, as you know, took place without the participation of a professional obstetrician. Perhaps that is why young mothers often met among the clicks.