it's fucked up how studying history is like reading about the backstory and lore of a video game but for the actual real world
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check this shit out. this book about witches was written 48 years after the invention of the printing press by some guy who was really mad at and apparently sexually obsessed with some chick and then everyone started using it to prosecute witches. absolutely wack backstory
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the lifestory of the frenchman gilles de rais:
1. fought alongside joan of arc
2. bankrupted himself building a chapel and producing a play
3. tried to summon a demon (???)
4. confessed to abusing and murdering a bunch of kids (?????)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_de
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is that fate/zero caster dude lol
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YUP
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it blows my fucking mind that this dude actually existed
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read about Rasputin for trip
Born a serf, became a monk, had a mystical experience, moved on
got to nobility, literally fucked his way up to become the czars spiritual adviser/healer
Stabbed, lived, poisoned, lived
may have helped the empire fall lol
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_R
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also his supposed giant dick is still preserved in a fucking vat in Russia
and there's even photos of him
dude was a legend
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