Men with Queer Nerves: The Jumping Frenchmen of Maine

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In the late nineteenth century, visitors to Maine observed something strange: French-Canadian lumberjacks who, at the slightest stimulus, seemed to jump, strike out with their limbs, or mimic languages they could not speak. Ross Bullen introduces us to these so-called “Jumping Frenchmen” and to their greatest investigator, George M. The text of this essay is published under a CC BY-SA license, see here for details.

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