Back in 2016 while working on blog posts about the woodworkers depicted in misericords I encountered a devilish creature holding a scroll of paper. At the
You wouldn’t think how far clerical errors could go when it was laboriously copied by hand by exhausted monks in candlelight.
The whole Mary was a virgin thing (aka immaculate conception) was started because someone mistranslated young woman as (sexual) virgin. In some languages those terms are really close (even today for example in German: junge Frau Vs Jungfrau).
Those medieval people were silly and backward. Why would anyone think a demon would drag them to hell just because the mispeeled a
You wouldn’t think how far clerical errors could go when it was laboriously copied by hand by exhausted monks in candlelight.
The whole Mary was a virgin thing (aka immaculate conception) was started because someone mistranslated young woman as (sexual) virgin. In some languages those terms are really close (even today for example in German: junge Frau Vs Jungfrau).
Ah, so that’s what they mean by “the road to hell is paved with good in tensions”
Oh no. Now we’ll never hear from FlyingSquid again. RIP, fiend, we’ll mis
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