Medieval Nuns Gone Wild: Was It Possession or Psychosis?

What made nuns “howl like dogs, meow like cats, and jump from trees like birds” during the Middle Ages

Nuns signing a pact with the Devil | Drawing by Hans Weiditz from the 16th century

It was 1627. A woman, Jeanne, started feeling attracted to a man called Urbain. But this was not going to be a love story. Jeanne des Anges was the Mother Superior of the Loudun Monastery in Southern…