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
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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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).