Medieval writers completely invented the mystical concept of the Holy Grail during the late twelfth century, originally portraying it as a simple serving dish before later…

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Medieval writers completely invented the mystical concept of the Holy Grail during the late twelfth century, originally portraying it as a simple serving dish before later authors decided it was the magical cup of Christ that granted eternal life. There is absolutely zero historical or biblical mention of this all-powerful artifact before French poet Chrétien de Troyes casually dropped it into an Arthurian romance novel just to make his plot a little more interesting. Centuries later, literal Nazis under Heinrich Himmler spent massive amounts of state funding desperately searching the globe for this fictional cup to harness its occult power for the Third Reich. It remains historically hilarious that one of the most violent, heavily militarized regimes in human history wasted critical resources hunting down a prop from a medieval fantasy novel