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Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities was met with skepticism

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Re: Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities was met with skepticism

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As ironic as it may be, there are cases of "witchcraft" now in India. Just like in the Middle Ages, even now it is being used as an excuse to rob the land of the poor. There are many videos and documentaries on YT on this.

What is the premise? There are accusations of witches and then what is the outcome?

"Witchcraft" is an excuse to socially isolate people, and in some cases arrest or kill them.

Re: Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities was met with skepticism

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's definitely not coincidence, because they don't come from the same place. Unless you're classifying Mexico (swine flu), China (SARS & Covid), DR Congo (Ebola) and Saudi Arabia (MERS) as the same place

Just posting this for your reference: https://www.who.int/csr/don/archive/country/chn/en/

I'm not quite sure what you think this proves.

This is not a list of pandemics, it's a list of individual cases in China of diseases that need to be reported to and monitored by the WHO because of possible epidemic risk. For the last seven years it's been exclusively Avian flu (still no sustained animal->human transmission yet). There are two pandemics (SARS and COVID) there.

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