Renaissance magicians literally buried animal hearts full of pins to reverse a witchs curse
Nothing screams 'enlightened European civilization' like fighting magic with aggressive littering. If you got sick in the 1600s, the logical medical response was to take a pig's heart, stab it repeatedly, and shove it down a chimney to teach the local witch a lesson.

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