𝕸 Superstition

Abbeys, Churches, Convents, Friaries. Monasteries

Dissolution & Fountains Abbey ..

Dissolution of the Monasteries ..

Gloucester & Whitefriars ..

Monks' Diet - Medieval ..

Customs, Folk Lore

Wassail ..

Medicine
Alchemy, Primitive Medicine ..
Alchemy to Science ..

Apothecaries, Barbers, Herbalists, Midwives ..

Astrologer Physicians .. 

Christian Blame of Diseased ..
Doctrine of Signatures .. 
Dogmatism, Imagination, Superstition .. 

Herbal remedies - sage oil, alembic .. 

Herbalism, Humours, Illness ..
Medieval medicine ..

Religion = Approved Superstition

Anchorites ..
Beguines ..
Benedictines ..

Daily Life .. 
Church upheavals ..
Convents in Medieval Britain ..
Council of Oxford, 1222 - clamping down on clerical concubines ..
Dogmatism, Imagination, Superstition .. 

Dissolution & Fountains Abbey ..

Dissolution of the Monasteries ..

Ecclesiastical Curse ..
Islamic vs Christian Science .. 

KJV - King James Version ..
Lucrative Fear-mongering ..
Marriage Act of 1836 ..
Marriage banns and marital bans ..
Monasteries, Books of Hours .. 

Monks, friars - Cistercian, Dominican, Franciscan ..

Priests - Medieval Role ..
Sanctuary ..
Scholasticism, Natural Philosophy, Universities ..  

Spanish Inquisition ..

Superstition ..

Terrain→Technology - Impact on Church ⇼
Warrior Churchmen - medieval ..
Wycliffe, Tyndale, Cranmer, KJV ..
Wyclif & Lollards ..
1378 – Western Schism ..

Why Superstition Reigned ..

Scepticism, Early Science
Atheism - Medieval onward ..
Church and Crown to Parliament .. 

Critics of Late Medieval Religion ..  

History of Science .. 

Islamic vs Christian Science .. 

Natural Philosophy ..  

Scientific Revolution ..

Sociopolitical Evolution - West ➧

Superstition within Society

Daily Life .. 
Dogmatism, Imagination, Superstition >>
Drama in Middle Ages .. 

Economic & Societal Consequences of Black Death ..  

Inside the Medieval Mind – Sex .. 

SDH - Superstition - Dog-Headed Men ..

Sociopolitical Evolution - West ➧

Spanish Inquisition ..

Superstitious Fear of "Witchcraft" ..

Terrain→Technology - Impact on Superstition ⇼

Werewolves .. 

Why Superstition Reigned ..
Witches - Scapegoats ..  

𝕸 First Estate ..
𝕸 Natural Philosophy .. 

𝕸 Philosophy ..  

Dogmatism, Imagination, Superstition

Ancient

Surgery in Ancient Egypt ➧

Ecclesiastical Perpetuation of Superstition 

Cathedrals, Colleges, Universities ..

Educational Routes circa 1000 ..
Formal Education in the Middle Ages ..       
Héloïse and Abelard ..
Learning, Work ..  

Medieval Universities ..

Scholasticism ..
Scholasticism (2) ..
Student Life in the Medieval University ..
Scholasticism, Natural Philosophy, Universities ..
Universities - Medieval ..
University - Medieval ..

Escaping Indoctrination

Escaping Mormonism ⇻

Terrain→Technology - Impact on Rationality ⇼

Dogmatism, Imagination, Superstition >>> .

Paganism

Paganism Dominated The Ancient World - "Gods" & Monsters - AbHi > .

SDH - Superstition - Dog-Headed Men

3 Accounts - Dog-Headed Men - Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, Mandeville - VoP > .
Do the Dog-Headed Men Have Souls? - Letter from 9th Century Monk - VoP > .

Dogmatism, Imagination, Superstition >>> .

Somewhere in the distant seas past India, these three famous explorers from completely different backgrounds came across [claims of?] a race of men called the Cynocephaly: a remarkable people with the "heads of dogs".

Though Sir John Mandeville's account (and very existence) is heavily questioned by historians, quite what brought the otherwise reliable Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta to corroborate the ancient legends of the Dog-Headed Men is less clear...

Spanish Inquisition

Ugly History: Spanish Inquisition - TED-Ed > .

In 1478, Pope Sixtus IV issued a decree authorizing the Catholic monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, to root out "heresy" in the Spanish kingdoms. The inquisition quickly turned its attention to ridding the region of people who were not part of the Catholic Church— leading to more than 350 years of ethnic cleansing. Kayla Wolf digs into the persecution and brutality of the Spanish Inquisition.

Superstitious Fear of "Witchcraft"

Why Medieval Britain Was So Terrified Of Witchcraft - AbHi > .

Fear is directly proportional to the paranoia-promoting inculcation of supernaturalist threats (aka official religion). 

Superstitious Fear of "Witchcraft" ..

Witches - Scapegoats ..

Werewolves

5 Historical Accounts - Werewolves (Treatment) -  440 BCE to 1975 CE - VoP > .

Herodotus 440 BCE > .

Oribasius - 4thC CE > .
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Werewolf of Bedburg - 1589 > .
The Beast of Gévaudan - 1765 > .

Medical Report of Mr. H - 1975 > .  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodotus .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oribasius .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Stumpp .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_of_G%C3%A9vaudan .
3 "werewolf" cases: http://alam25.tripod.com/modern.htm .

Ambras Syndrome: The Curious Genetics of Werewolves . 

Ambras syndrome is a very rare type of hypertrichosis lanuginosa congenita, a congenital skin disease characterized by excessive hair growth on the entire body, with the exception of the palms, soles, and mucous membranes. Individuals with Ambras syndrome have excessive growth of vellus (soft, fine and short) hair, especially on the face, ears, and shoulders. Facial and dental abnormalities may also be present. Ambras syndrome has been mapped to the short (q) arm of chromosome 8. It appears to follow an autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertrichosis .