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Packet 2: Bonus 10

The legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin may have been inspired by children who travelled from Erfurt to Arnstadt while performing this activity. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this activity that may have been caused by ergot poisoning during a 1518 event in Strasbourg.
ANSWER: dancing [or dance; or dancing mania or dancing plague; accept choreomania]
[10e] Alternative theories for the cause of dancing mania argue that they were caused by residual stress from this event. Doctors did not actually wear a costume with a beak during this 14th century epidemic.
ANSWER: the Black Death [or Black Plague, or bubonic plague; prompt on plague]
[10m] Ergot poisoning was often blamed for causing mass hysteria during these events. Heinrich Kramer’s Malleus Maleficarum served as a manual for these events.
ANSWER: witch trials [accept witch hunts; prompt on trials or hunts]
<History - European, Vikram Narasimhan> | VAULT II Packet 02

HeardPPBE %M %H %
4523.7898%58%82%

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Triangle Cup2026-03-13✓323.3367%100%67%
VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS2026-03-13✓320.00100%33%67%
VAULT II at McGill2026-03-13✓425.00100%50%100%
VAULT II at UCSB2026-03-13✓524.00100%60%80%
VAULT II Northern UK2026-04-24✓323.33100%67%67%
VAULT II Southern UK2026-04-24✓425.00100%50%100%
VAULT II at Harvard2026-04-30✓420.00100%25%75%
VAULT II at MINT2026-06-19✓520.00100%20%80%
VAULT II Stanford Online2026-07-17✓827.50100%75%100%