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The weapons and tradition

https://gamesandtehories.blogspot.com/ Kimmo Huosionmaa Below this text is a link to famous traditional German songs from the 17th. century. There is a series of portraits of that time art, and here I must mention, that I don't have copyrights for that video, but you might push the link and watch it by self. The film consists the interesting paintings from that period, and as you might seem, those paintings consist the introductions, how the weapons should handle, and of course the warnings and codes, what people who fought in 30-years war should afraid. The rifles in those paintings seems normal weapons, but they are made by extremely strong materials, what means that they were so-called "hand cannons".  Those extremely powerful flintlock muskets could penetrate walls of stone houses, and that made them extremely dangerous.  Also, the crossbow was loaded with windlass, and that tells something, how powerful those weapons were. The strong bow would give extremely h...

Why Are Ravens very often identified with black magic?

(Picture 1) Kimmo Huosionmaa Almost every person, who looks at Gothic art are noticed that those paintings and drawings are usually portrayed the black bird known as  Raven. Those birds are symbolizing black magic and witchcraft. But why that big crow is so often portrayed in that kind of art? The reason is that witches must hide their identity, and real witchcraft and black magic are actually making some poisons by using natural vegetables and mushrooms. But the problem with witches was that if they caught by sheriffs, they would die in the bonfire. So the witches must grow their vegetables like Belladonna and destroy angels in far away from the house, where that person lives. And actually, they must use plantations, what looks like natural. And also they must know the location of those vegetables. They must use some bird, what was not suspicious as the pet, and also that bird must be easy to find if the looker knows the mark of the bird.  And the bird must be bi...