Malcolm Gaskill on Why Our Ancestors Weren't as Superstitious as We Think
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Which finders work precisely because People are in themselves naturally hesitant because they're not sure whether this is witchcraft or not. And now the good fight with Yasha Monk. It's a simple image of Progress in which
We used to be deeply superstitious, believed in ghosts and Burned witches at the stake. And then we had The Renaissance and the Enlightenment and the Age of Reason. And today
We are mostly rational creatures in so far as these forms of superstition still exist. They tend to be at the margins of our society and our Lives. In this conversation. with the great historian Markham Gaskell.
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