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Obscene: The Dublin Scandal
The History of the Printing Press
A 15th century German priest called Heinrich Kramer had this crazy idea about how every village in Germany was riddled with satanic witches. At the time, there wasn't a big witch panic at the end of the 15th century. So Heinrich Kramer takes his book, which is called the Malius Maleficarum, and he has it printed. Because of this, it really takes off. It's like a virus. And people who studied this told me that you could see copies of this book spreading through Europe along the arteries and veins of Europe. Until Europe was gripped by a two century long mad witch panic, where tens of thousands of women were murdered, basically. But
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