The Jumping Frenchmen of Maine

If you've seen fellow workers being attacked by bears or smashed by falling trees you'd be pretty jumpy too. Abrupt noise after hours of near silence, followed by trauma.

> Jumping Frenchman syndrome is not a medical condition or a case of collective hysteria, but a classic case of operant conditioning —a learned behaviour reinforced by social stimuli—that developed in a closed community.

Sounds like religion