r/ExplainTheJoke 2d ago

Something about mushrooms?

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u/jonpaco 2d ago

Also the fairy leave a changeling in place of the child they took. The changeling wound behave off and weird, historians think the myth is a way to explain autism in a mid evil culture.

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u/Embarrassed_Home_175 2d ago

Please tell me you meant medieval.

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u/Old_Huckleberry1026 2d ago

Nah. Just evil that’s mid…

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u/Baile_An_Ti_Mhor_Hon 2d ago

Certainly not thoroughly evil.