r/ExplainTheJoke • u/RocketPoweredSad • 2d ago

Something about mushrooms?

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u/horshack_test 2d ago edited 2d ago

Fairy circle. People often feared fairies would snatch their children away. Iron repels fairies.

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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/Yeshua_shel_Natzrat 2d ago

To be fair, medieval authorities were pretty mid evil.

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u/Super_Rando_Man 1d ago

Grand enquisitor torquemada , now that misspelled guy was top teir evil

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u/PreciousTimeGloryDay 1d ago

Let’s face it! You can’t Torquemada anything! (With credit to Mel Brooks)