Comments by "Cris T" (@62Cristoforo) on "DW History and Culture" channel.

  1. Magic and medicine used to be one and the same practice. But at some point in society there was a split; men went into a logical path, medicine, while mostly women remained involved in a more accessible form of natural holistic medicine. This same split occurred between astronomy and astrology; they used to be all one study before they were split into two opposing practices.
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  2. People are quickly and easily transformed into monsters. We saw this during the lockdowns from the recent pandemic. Anyone who remained unvaccinated was seen by many as a heretic, an outlier, responsible for the repeated lockdowns. Some shouted for their death, blocking medical help if an unvaccinated heretic ever showed up at a hospital, needing medical attention for either Covid 19, or for any other ailment. As a society we haven’t really advanced that much since these dark times depicted here.
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  3. And if you lived in that town and if you protested the burning of your neighbour, you’d instantly be suspected of being in league with the .devil himself. And now you’re next for the stake. The more people who questioned and protested the killings, the more the townspeople would be killed
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  4. The Burning Times is a documentary/discussion on the witch hunts of the past, produced by the National Film Board of Canada. (NFB)
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  5. If you adhere to anything like eating healthy food, going for shiatsu or acupuncture, drinking herbal tea for various ailments, taking natural supplements or burning incense you’d be suspected of being a witch.
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