Myths & mysteries
Palmistry was condemned by the Catholic Church but aggressively funded by Renaissance kings
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Hypocrisy was the true currency of the Renaissance. While the Church was eagerly burning peasants for practicing folk magic, royalty was actively keeping 'chiromancy' alive. Aristocrats paid fortunes to mystics to read the creases in their hands, utterly convinced that an extra wrinkle on their thumb proved they were predestined to win a war against France.
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