Comments by "" (@obsidianjane4413) on "Lady of the Library" channel.

  1. Sadly, "possession" needing an "exorcism" was the pre-scientific superstitious explanation for disease and mental illness. Often the "cure" for it didn't just end at a ritual (when it inevitably failed), but gave the affected person's caretakers the justification for abusing and harming them. Restraining them, beatings, and even killing.
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  2. Just bear in mind that all of this is based on Greek and Roman (rivals and enemies of Carthage) propaganda with almost no actual direct "primary" sources.
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  3. My mother was into weird stuff like this when I was a kid. New Age etc. (and then she found Jesus. lol) She had a nonfiction book on this. And I remember later reading a sci-fi novel that used this phenomenon as a posit that it was caused by aliuns from the planet Mercury who could use psychic powers and insert technobabble here to possess human bodies and had been slowing invading Earth for hundreds of years. Some times it didn't go right, and the whatever and focused energy of the Sun would cause the SHC. It was a good book IIRC, and as plausible as some of the other theories about it.
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  4. At least it wasn't an armored bikini. Which is usually what is used because...
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  5. Nice correlation analysis. That is a fabulously lustful top. Apropos.
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  6.  @PeteOtton  It definitely wasn't Dickens.
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