{"id":4713,"date":"2014-02-24T20:42:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T02:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4713"},"modified":"2014-02-24T20:42:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T02:42:41","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-february-24-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4713","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour for February 24, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Bloody Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The classic witch-hunting manual\u00a0<em>Malleus Maleficarum <\/em>(1486) stated, &#8220;all witchcraft comes from carnal lust, which is in women insatiable.&#8221; \u00a0This summed up the widespread belief that women were by nature oversexed, and therefore dangerous to men. \u00a0It is not surprising that many demonologists stressed the witch&#8217;s ability to render a man impotent, even to cause his genitals to disappear, for the witchcraze took place during a period when women were perceived as sexually omnivorous. \u00a0In these proscriptions we find that the most disgusting part of women&#8217;s disgusting bodies was there menstrual blood. \u00a0When Stevenote de Audebert showed the witch hunter Pierre de Lancre her pact with Satan written in menstrual blood, he was horrified to look at it. \u00a0But not too horrified; his fascination overcame his disgust. \u00a0One must ask why she showed it to the man who boasted he had tortured some six hundred persons, and who put to death eighty, in a brief four-month tour of southwestern France. \u00a0It is likely that Stevenote was proud of this document. \u00a0At any rate, showing it to de Lancre was her undoing, for she was burned at the stake.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0062510363\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=theasylumeclecti&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=0062510363\">Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Bloody Yet Truly Morbid Fact! The classic witch-hunting manual\u00a0Malleus Maleficarum (1486) stated, &#8220;all witchcraft comes from carnal lust, which is in women insatiable.&#8221; \u00a0This summed up the widespread belief that women were by nature oversexed, and therefore dangerous to men. \u00a0It is not surprising that many demonologists stressed the witch&#8217;s ability to render a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4714,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4713\/revisions\/4714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}