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- EtnaAtsume@lemmy.worldEnglish11 months
You would look weird too if you had been through what they had!
- lauha@lemmy.worldEnglish11 months
In that time the belief was that Jesus was perfect already when he was born, thus he was painted as an adult. This spread to other religious paintings containing children too, thus we have these creepy kids.
- 11 months
You see, infant mortality was very high, because instead of practicing good hygiene, people practiced pickling babies, and so only the most ripped and strong kids made it to 5.
- 11 months
An interesting side note I just discovered on Wikipedia:
The boots-filled-over-night tradition is based on another legend of him throwing gold pieces through the window of three poor daughters so that their dad doesn’t have to force them to become prostitutes.
Didn’t expect the roots of St.Nicholas traditions to be that dark…
