I wonder if the victims/hysterics themselves would react similarly upon questing? i.e. with a defensive emotional reaction, assuming such an emotion were observ

I wonder if the victims/hysterics themselves would react similarly upon questing? i.e. with a defensive emotional reaction, assuming such an emotion were observable in the midst of the other strange behaviour: https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/10-strangest-mass-hysterias1.htm https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/10-stran...