Bright Side: 10+ Facts About the Middle Ages That Might Make You Want to Become a Historian

Bright Side: 10+ Facts About the Middle Ages That Might Make You Want to Become a Historian

A delinquent who was caught received such a memento that for the future he would keep well out of the way. A mutilated hand was the sign-manual of an oath-breaker: the significance of the letter N branded on both cheeks was obvious to all, and anyone who had been flogged out of the town at the cart’s tail had had enough of Nuremberg. [183] In the year 1575, 6 wicked lads who had all forfeited…

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The Collector: 5 Extraordinary Medieval Women

The Collector: 5 Extraordinary Medieval Women

According to Murray, down to the seventeenth century, there persisted in Europe the relics of a religion centered on the worship of the two-faced horned god Dianus, who represented the cycle of crops and seasons. This agrarian cult was easily confused with devil worshiping and, as such, prosecuted. Though mostly discredited, Murray’s thesis has enjoyed a certain influence and was responsible also…

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National Catholic Register: Pope Francis and the Killer Robots

National Catholic Register: Pope Francis and the Killer Robots

There follows a long discursive account of the manner in which, through the medium of this servant girl Mary, Don Francisco sent to his latest victim elegant clothes, valuable presents, and personal messages, both polite and endearing, and an invitiation to have dinner with him, which, acting on Mary’s advice, the young lady accepted.  Don Faracncisco informed her that, because of certain…

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New Jersey boy, 3, killed by pit bulls; mother injured | Fox News

New Jersey boy, 3, killed by pit bulls; mother injured | Fox News

In 1120 A.D. [There was a famine in Jerusalem not caused by weather. In Jerusalem in 1120, a famine caused by a “plague of mice and locusts.” In July, there was a horrible tempest of hail at Treves [Prussia].   It overthrew many buildings. It did much damage at Halderstadt, Germany, so that the ground in nine miles radius bore no corn. It killed most small birds and oxen. In Germany, the wolves…

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Gizmodo: Tesla Owners, Say ‘Open Butthole’ and Get a Little Surprise

Gizmodo: Tesla Owners, Say ‘Open Butthole’ and Get a Little Surprise

Osculum infame is the name of a witch’s supposed ritual greeting upon meeting with the Devil. The name means The Shameful Kiss, or The Kiss of Shame since it involved kissing the devil’s anus, his other mouth. According to folklore, it was this kiss that allowed the Devil to seduce women. During the years of the witch hunts, many believed that witches worshipped the Devil and paid him homage by…

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Reuters: Pope, on Palm Sunday, says devil taking advantage of pandemic

Reuters: Pope, on Palm Sunday, says devil taking advantage of pandemic

There is, in truth, no controversialist of the day who exceeds Jewel in the reckless violence of his abuse.  His impudence, profanity, unblushing mendacity, and downright forgery are beyond belief.  There are, moreover, to be discerned in the cold concentration of his hate a bitter cynicism and a mocking impiety which one can only stigmatize as devilish, and which go far to prove that the man…

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The Boston Globe: Doc Talk: The Irish famine remembered; black holes investigated; Truth or Consequences (the town, that is) examined

The Boston Globe: Doc Talk: The Irish famine remembered; black holes investigated; Truth or Consequences (the town, that is) examined

In 1162 A.D. In Holland, there was an inundation from the sea; many people and cattle lost. In 1162, there was said to have been a great famine all over the world. On 14 March 1162, there was a great tempest of wind, thunder and lightning at Lübeck, Germany, which burnt and overthrew many houses. The sea overflowed farther in Friesland than ever was known. Even Hadelen, and all the low country…

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CNBC: U.S. hits daily vaccination record as case counts return to summer peaks

CNBC: U.S. hits daily vaccination record as case counts return to summer peaks

In all countries we meet in times of plague with complaints of the doctors of the obstinacy of the patients. The surgeon of the administrative district of Szabin in East Prussia applied in 1710 to be recalled, as all medical assistance was useless.  The surviving remnant of the population had fled to the woods and were hopelessly abandoned to their fate. The only remaining peasant obstinately…

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Newsweek: Can Blood from Young People Slow Aging? Silicon Valley Has Bet Billions It Will

Newsweek: Can Blood from Young People Slow Aging? Silicon Valley Has Bet Billions It Will

The Church of the Holy Cross in Montefalco, Italy, possesses some remarkable relics of St. Clare of Montefalco (d. 1308), including her miraculous heart with its symbols of the Passion, three pellets which in a unique manner represent the Holy Trinity, and the incorrupt body of the Saint.  The church also has a reliquary of the Saints blood that liquefied at various times during the…

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The Guardian: Whitmer won’t go ‘punch for punch’ with Republican who called her a witch

The Guardian: Whitmer won’t go ‘punch for punch’ with Republican who called her a witch

Schmidt was also a humanitarian.  After torturing several women accused of witchcraft, Schmidt became convinced that the women were confessing to crimes they had never committed through fear of pain.  Although he was risking death by defying the ecclesiastic authorities, he applied to the town council to stop the trials.  The council was astonished because the execution of witches was a…

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Smithsonian Magazine: Did the Black Death Rampage Across the World a Century Earlier Than Previously Thought?

Smithsonian Magazine: Did the Black Death Rampage Across the World a Century Earlier Than Previously Thought?

Before the outbreak of the Black Death the general dissolution of morality had already reached a very high degree. “From the greatest to the most insignificant,” Boccaccio reports, “bishops, prelates, and temporal lords worshipped voluptuousness in the most disgraceful manner, and abandoned themselves not only to natural but also to unnatural lust without shame or restraint, so that by the…

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New York Post : UK teen declared dead begins to breathe hours before organs were to be donated

New York Post : UK teen declared dead begins to breathe hours before organs were to be donated

The mutilated body of St. Josaphat (d. 1623) remains marvelously incorrupt in the Church of St. Sophia in his native Poland.  When a costly reliquary was crafted of precious metals and engraved with mother of pearl pictures depicting scenes of his martyrdom, the body was exhumed for the 3rd time.  While the incorrupt body of the marytyr was being prepared for its enshrinement, the mortal wound on…

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ABC News: Severe weather brings major flash flooding, tornadoes South as threat moves east

ABC News: Severe weather brings major flash flooding, tornadoes South as threat moves east

On Monday, April 13, a “foul dark day” of mist and bitter cold, as the army camped on the approach to Chartres. A violent hailstorm struck with the force of a cyclone, followed by cloudbursts of freezing rain.  Horses and men were killed by the prodigious hailstones, tents were torn up by the wind, the baggage train was dragged through mud and floods, and scores died of the fearful cold,…

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FOX5 Las Vegas: Las Vegas police: Home video showed babysitter beating 5-year-old child before his death

FOX5 Las Vegas: Las Vegas police: Home video showed babysitter beating 5-year-old child before his death

Tertullian cites 3 secret crimes alleged against the Christians, as apart from the public and indisputably actual crimes of refusing adoration to the pagan gods and lese-majeste against the emperor: ritual infanticide, incest, and a variety of cannibalism in which the host was dipped in children’s blood before being consumed. In the 3rd century, Christian writers were more aggressive in carrying…

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New York Post : German nuns were 'pimps' for sick priests, says sexual abuse victim

New York Post : German nuns were ‘pimps’ for sick priests, says sexual abuse victim

Despite the immense popularity of the castrati during the Baroque and Classical periods, changing musical tastes—as well as the gradual inclusion of women on the dramatic and musical stage—caused them to fall out of favor with audiences by the late eighteenth century. The “heroic tenor” became the preferred singing voice for leading male roles in the opera, and composers ceased writing music for…

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Fox News: North Carolina sanctuary worker attacked by wolves, same preserve where lion killed intern in 2018

Fox News: North Carolina sanctuary worker attacked by wolves, same preserve where lion killed intern in 2018

Grass, roots, and white clay were the ordinary articles of food for the poorer classes during these terrible years. And as a result, the sufferers almost ceased to resemble human beings. Their stomachs became greatly distended, while almost all the bones of their bodies were visible beneath their leathery skin. Their very voices became thin and piping.  Packs of raging wolves came out of the…

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Dazed: Tarot readers, mystics, and psychics are taking over OnlyFans

Dazed: Tarot readers, mystics, and psychics are taking over OnlyFans

These first adopters of crystal-gazing would stare deeply into the stone, falling into a meditative trance that would allow the subconscious to open and reveal secrets of the past, present, or future. (Although popular opinion would have us believe psychics are only good for knowing what’s going to happen, true crystal balls can see in any chronological direction, depending on the Seer’s…

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