'Why Did People Long Ago Believe Strange Things?'
What follows is the text of a talk I delivered at Culford School on 3 May 2024
The question ‘Why do people believe strange things?’ is, on the face of it, a rather stupid one. It assumes that the person asking it holds beliefs that are ‘normal’, and it assumes that we will all know and agree on what counts as ‘strange’. Normality and strangeness, clearly…
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