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I know too much to not believe in witches and black magic. (media.scored.co)
posted 13 days ago by EJGeneric on scored.co (+0 / -0 / +42Score on mirror )
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Yggdrasill on scored.co
13 days ago 5 points (+0 / -0 / +5Score on mirror ) 2 children
I’ve heard conspiracies that the witch trials were motivated to go after women with property some rich people wanted to steal. Like widows and such. “Hey she’s crazy we need to kill her, oh my what do we do with her estate?”
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EJGeneric on scored.co
13 days ago 5 points (+0 / -0 / +5Score on mirror ) 1 child
The main theory 'historians' go with was that everyone got ergot poisoning from moldy corn. Then they all went a bit crazy with hallucinations n shit.

Considering most Americans can barely understand much history over 100 years that came off as ignorant and superstitious of religious folks.
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FeloniusNiggums on scored.co
13 days ago 10 points (+0 / -0 / +10Score on mirror ) 1 child
I don't believe anything "historians" say. Even ones with normal noses.
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Dfalt on scored.co
13 days ago 4 points (+0 / -0 / +4Score on mirror )
It's an EXTREMELY kiked profession, especially the closer you get to the current era. That's why I took classes mostly focused on ancient and medieval stuff when I was getting my degree.
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Dfalt on scored.co
13 days ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror )
I've seen that claim before too. I got into it in college with a history professor over a book review I wrote for a book making that claim where I critiqued the thesis and he got all pissy about it in the margins of my paper.
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