Why Medieval Britain Was So Terrified Of Witchcraft | Gods & Monsters | Absolute History

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1. I am a Christian and I dance backwards but I will never burn My Bible. I lived in a wooden area.

2. Humans are still, in their hearts, primitives afraid of the dark.

   1. @Dizzy McSpudd yes, yes we are.

   2. We’re all still cavemen

   3. There’s a reason they put fences around cemeteries and it’s not to keep people out.

   4. @Σοφία Κωνσταντινίδου we’re still as primitive as we were 10k years ago our means have just changed

   5. @Laird Cummings Nothing more true than that. Irrational, superstitious, dissonance propelled by religious indoctrination, magical thinking, and trying to connect things that have no correlation as a way to project order onto chaos are some of our favorite ways to cope with stress. And thus, a witch hunt, persecution of minority groups, genocide, slavery, and all sorts of historically accurate horrors that are still happening today. I reckon a little self-awareness and empathy would go a long way in combatting it and slowing the cycle that’s been a recurrent fact throughout our history. Unfortunately, fear isn’t something many can handle in a way that doesn’t bring everyone crashing down with them.
      I’ll dismember my soapbox and be on my way.

3. rome steal and replace “jesus” hesus is a celtic sungod born in 834 bc, witches are the orginal “christians, reason why i call me “hesus” to return, “mother earth” …………. ps lucifer is latin name for venus, goddess of love (not sex nor porn)

   1. What?

   2. @hesus danu I’m still confused. That article mentioned nothing about Lucifer.

   3. and your education is WOEFULLY inadequate, conspiracy theorist!

   4. @usagi32211

      https://greekgodsandgoddesses.net/goddesses/venus/

      she is even a “roman” goddess, ps the pentagram is the movement in the sky and the 5 points that earg and she come together

   5. I thought Lucifer was the name for the planet Venus, not the goddess.

4. Thank you.

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