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| | Saint Vitus |
 | | He is invoked against epilepsy, lightning, poisoning by dog or snake bite, sleeplessness, snakebite, storm, and Saint Vitus Dance (Sydenham's chorea, a nervous disorder) (Bentley, Roeder). |
| | Unreliable legend has Vitus, the only son of a senator in Sicily, become a Christian when he was twelve. |
| | This dancing developed almost into a mania, and was confused with chorea, the nervous condition later known as Saint Vitus' dance, the saint being invoked against it. |
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