[T]wo or three horsemen, … appeared returning at full gallop, their horses much blown, and the men apparently in a disordered flight.

No known human society exists without celebrational rituals.

I am so stiff and so stank, That uneath may I stand any more

Soon the formications and muscular debility returned, not alone, but accompanied with painful cramps and startlings in the feet and calves of the legs.