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• dymk 1y ago
  That and “witches, 21st century edition”
  • krapp 1y ago
    To be fair "witches" were the culture war / moral panic of their time.
    • gilleain 1y ago
      An interesting fact I learned from this [1] youtube video was that the 'Malleus Maleficarum' (The Hammer of Witches) book was very concerned (among other things) with witches casting spells that caused male genitalia to vanish. 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIdcjeeYjaE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIdcjeeYjaE
      • krapp 1y ago
        Fear of penis-stealing witches is apparently a thing among African Christian communities as well. It's probably a constant in any culture that believes in some form of witchcraft or sorcery.