Witches were accused and executed in Salem, while possessed nuns meowed and had seizures across Europe. Hand-trembling epidemics spread among Swiss and German boarding schools, laughing attacks were widespread among Tanzanian girl students, female adolescents in Afghanistan experienced fainting outbreaks, over six hundred boarding school girls in Mexico suddenly lost the ability to walk straight, and Cambodian garment workers collapsed on the factory floor. Mass psychogenic disorder arises in tightly knit environments burdened by unbearable and inescapable social circumstances: when a stress trigger unfolds, a group simultaneously experiences uncontrollable motor symptoms such as trembling, weeping, twitching, ticking or fainting. Abril gives form to an anthropological theory that views these psychosomatic outbreaks as a female proto-language of protest, triggered by oppressive systems, collective pain and transgenerational trauma, and interrogates the medical and academic analyses that overlook female suffering and neglect spiritual and Indigenous explanations.