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16 Surprising Facts About Halloween You Never Knew
While many of the trappings of Halloween are widely known, such as the witches, ghosts, skeletons, zombies and more, many of the holiday’s traditional roots are lost in the past. Halloween’s ties…
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“Thou Shalt not suffer a Cat to Live”: Why Pope Gregory IX’s Vox in Rama Implicated Cats in Devil Worship.
On June 13, 1233, Pope Gregory IX instigated the first bull of his papacy: the Vox in Rama. The Bull…
Ancient History
The Origins of 10 Ancient Superstitions We Still Follow Today
The modern word ‘superstition’ comes from the Latin superstitio. It was a term that the Romans applied to mysterious beliefs…