𝕸 Superstition

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Alchemy, Primitive Medicine ..
Alchemy to Science ..
Spanish Inquisition ..

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 > .

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 >
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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.