[[Adding to the list is a man who asked the time of day and then drank himself to death at a bar, another who killed himself at the same bar by eating cigar butts, and another who ordered a drink and then blew his head off. On top of this countless people were being hauled off to insane asylums and it was as if everyone had just suddenly and completely gone stark raving mad.]]
We shouldn’t forget that drugs were very easy to get back then- and not regulated- and a lot of the seedier crowds back then used them a lot- so a lot of the bizarre acts could have been attributed to drug addiction
There could have also been geological or chemical events that caused madness- or maybe even culinary- who knows- could have been demonic too- not discounting that- but there may be perfectly natural reasons too- Hard to tell- but it did seem people were gravitation to demonic rituals at that particular time- likely due to a concerted effort to spread it there- and back then, people were pretty superstitious=- and likely would turn to that for ‘protection’- The Salem witch trials were based on superstition and fear too-
Here I was thinking democrat mayor.....