Myths & mysteries
Weeping excessively caused mystics to go blind
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Crying over your sins is a standard practice, but some took it so severely far that they physically destroyed their own retinas. By shedding tears almost entirely constantly, a few extremely zealous figures completely ruined their vision, successfully achieving literal blindness as an accidental byproduct of intense sorrow.
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