Why snappy dogs, scratchy cats, and hungry worms were part of a medieval woman’s vision of the afterlife
The afterlife is not typically associated with aggressive pets and insatiable worms. But these are exactly the creatures that appeared to an unnamed woman recluse living in Winchester, England, over the course of three nights in the summer of 1422. The woman was an anchoress. That means she had chosen…
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