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To be fair "witches" were the culture war / moral panic of their time.
by krapp 2y ago
To be fair "witches" were the culture war / moral panic of their time.
- gilleain 2y agoAn 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 2y agoFear 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.