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Tiny Baroque Prints Once Served as Edible Prayers

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-sweet-sacredness-of-edible-prayers

by prismatic • 3 years ago

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melagonster• 2 years ago

this is very interesting to how western charm work in daily life.

kozinc• 2 years ago

How some of these edible charms are described makes me think they were sorta like tablets or edible vaccines, except faith-based.

Unless someone actually used them as medicine and then just perscribed faith-based/supernatural powers to them (so people wouldn't complain/accuse them of being witches)

thrownawayjests• 2 years ago

I too have been known to eat small squares of paper to facilitate communion with the divine.

fnord77• 2 years ago

acid tabs

pineaux• 2 years ago

I came here for this comment. I want tabs with these prints

wybiral• 2 years ago

Back in the day people pirated miracles because mp3s didn't exist yet.

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