Dr. A. D. Kotsovskiy. About the so-called "Baltic movement" in Bessarabia. — Proceedings of the Bessarabian Society of Naturalists. vol. III, 1912

Start t. Kaz. Balt psychosis dates back to 1909. In connection with the mass pilgrimage of the peasants of the Bessarabian and Kherson provinces. In the Baltsky Monastery, among the pilgrims, separate neuropsychic diseases appeared, which soon took on a mass character. All sick people are Moldovans. In each individual case, a connection with the Bessarabian monasteries is unconditionally established. The disease is of the nature of hysterical psychosis (hysteria); it is accompanied by shouts, hiccups, vomiting, convulsions with loss of consciousness, and sometimes hallucinations. All these symptoms have a close connection with the teachings that were then preached in the Baltsky and surrounding monasteries. According to this scholarship, for the sins of people, the devil enters them; it settles in the abdomen and produces all the symptoms described above. You can get rid of it by fasting, prayer, refusal of wine and tobacco, reprimanding, walking in monasteries and donations to monasteries, as well as perfecting a special banner of the cross.