MME4067334: Galatina, Italy. Fresco above the well in the chapel of St. Paul where tarantolati were conducted to drink its healer water. According to local legend the "tarantolati" or "tarantati", usually women, are affected by hysterical crisis caused by a bite of the tarantula spider and St. Paul, the patron of the poisoned, would be the their patron saint, Mencarini, Marcello / Bridgeman Images
MME4067343: Galatina, Italy. Musician playing Pizzica with tambourine. Pizzica is a frenetic traditional dance born in this town to heal the "tarantolati", mostly women, affected by recurrent hysterical crisis that local legend believes to be caused by the bite of the tarantula spider, Mencarini, Marcello / Bridgeman Images