The mania spread, and gave rise to a sect called the "Jumpers." A similar outbreak took place afterward in England, and has been repeated at various times and places since in our own country.( 403) (403) See Adam's Dictionary of All Religions, article on Jumpers; also Hecker.
In 1780 came another outbreak in France; but this time it was not the Jansenists who were affected, but the strictly orthodox.

A large number of young girls between twelve and nineteen years of age, having been brought together at the church of St.Roch, in Paris, with preaching and ceremonies calculated to arouse hysterics, one of them fell into convulsions.

Immediately other children were similarly taken, until some fifty or sixty were engaged in the same antics.

This mania spread to other churches and gatherings, proved very troublesome, and in some cases led to results especially painful.
About the same period came a similar outbreak among the Protestants of the Shetland Isles.

A woman having been seized with convulsions at church, the disease spread to others, mainly women, who fell into the usual contortions and wild shriekings.