Mystics occasionally sweat literal blood
Under extreme spiritual duress, certain devout individuals reported heavily sweating actual red blood. While modern medicine calls this rare condition hematidrosis, historically it was viewed as the ultimate proof that you were praying so incredibly hard your capillaries just decided to instantly explode.

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