 Seven other cases of dancing plague were reported in the same region during the medieval era.This psychogenic illness could have created a chorea (from the Greek "khoreia" meaning "to dance"), a situation comprising random and intricate unintentional movements that flit from body part to body part.Diverse choreas (St. Vitus' dance, St. John's dance, tarantism) were labeled in the Middle Ages referring to the independent epidemics of "dancing mania" that happened in central Europe, particularly at the time of the plague.