Is There Evidence That Could Help Us Get to the Bottom of This Mystery?

I don't believe there was anything. Court records, i don't really know to be on ist rob. I think it demonstrates how impossibly difficult it was to live in the mediaeval world. If you were peasant class or serf class,  you were susceptible to so much around you that was out of your control. And then just take the story a long bit broader. There are certainly mental and emotional responses. We're talking much more at the moment about the mental health impact as a result of being shut up in our homes,. and how people have responded to that. So i personally think the mas psychogenic illness seems to be the most reasonable explanation. But i don