I thought it was just tse-tse flies, early cases of west-nile virus, and toxic mold on the walls of the tomb.
But Aeon Magazine pulls out a spooky episode from the Sherlock Holmes Era of science history, and describes how they had such a hard time killing the old ideas of superstition for explaining the unknown in life.
-Even if that particular superstition did get its start in British popular fiction,…
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