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What Did The Past SMELL like?

Tony Robinson's Cunningcast

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The Smell of Hell in a Museum

It was designed to be smelled in a museum next to a 16th century painting of limbo where you've got kind of all the suffering souls in hell being tormented. The smell is based on descriptions 17th 16th century descriptions of what hell was supposed to smell like. So that included like it's supposed to smelllike poo and it's meant to smell like burning but also people said it smelled like there's a great sermon from like the 1650s that described hell as smelling like a thousand dead dogs. I think it just went. Aw no. It comes up to a thousand dead Dogs. Also when you are making a smell for a heritage setting there are certain things you can

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