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ClaireFromClare@h-net.social 16 hours ago
“Other religious houses were creative with their curses. ‘A book of [the Abbey of] SS Mary and Nicholas of Arnstein: If anyone steals it: may he die, may he be roasted in a frying pan, may the falling sickness [i.e. epilepsy] and fever attack him, and may he be rotated [on the breaking wheel] and hanged. Amen.’”
Rachel Morley in the excellent Summer 2026 magazine of the Friends of Friendless Churches. 🧵 2/2