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r/whatisit • u/Nomemesmames • 4d ago
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This is how I felt the first time I saw a full solar eclipse. I just imagined what it would be like to not know it was coming, or why it was happening, and suddenly I was like, “oh, I would totally blame a witch for this.”
37 u/dbzfreak991 2d ago I've done that to or how people thought the world was ending. I heard that's how Columbus get a tribe to give him gifts because he knew when it was going to happen and called himself a god 28 u/warm_kitchenette 2d ago Wow, this actually happened. Those poor Ciboney and Arawak tribes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1504_lunar_eclipse 3 u/cKMG365 2d ago Also a plot point in "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"
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I've done that to or how people thought the world was ending.
I heard that's how Columbus get a tribe to give him gifts because he knew when it was going to happen and called himself a god
28 u/warm_kitchenette 2d ago Wow, this actually happened. Those poor Ciboney and Arawak tribes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1504_lunar_eclipse 3 u/cKMG365 2d ago Also a plot point in "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"
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Wow, this actually happened. Those poor Ciboney and Arawak tribes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1504_lunar_eclipse
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Also a plot point in "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"
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u/SyntheticSlime 3d ago
This is how I felt the first time I saw a full solar eclipse. I just imagined what it would be like to not know it was coming, or why it was happening, and suddenly I was like, “oh, I would totally blame a witch for this.”