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Witches used to be a deadly serious and terrifying superstition that got thousands of people killed. And today we have Bibi Blocksberg teaching kids the joy of
by xg15 3y ago
Witches used to be a deadly serious and terrifying superstition that got thousands of people killed.
And today we have Bibi Blocksberg teaching kids the joy of seasons and festivities through Walpurgisnacht.
Feels like some kind of cultural accomplishment.
- pyuser583 3y agoWorldwide, belief in witches is increasing. Belief in witchcraft correlated with industrialization. As the world develops, more people a persecuted as witches. The UN has even gotten involved in this: https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/ie-albinism/witchcraft-and-human-rights https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/ie-albinism/witc...
- xen0 3y agoThat doesn't sound right... https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0276872 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... The most industrialised countries in the dataset correlate with the lowest belief. But the population in those areas is not increasing much, unlike the others. Unfortunately, neither China nor India are in the dataset.
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