Vatican Library

written about by St. John of Damascus, transforming into a bird had not been removed from their mythology, for in the 11th century, the statesman and theologian Michael Silos wrote that, quote, the superstition invests old women with this power providing them with wings in their extreme age and represents them as settling unseen upon infants whom it is alleged they suck until they exhaust all the humours in them Humor, coming from the Latin liquid or fluid, was, according to Encyclopedia Britannica, "...one of the four fluids of the body, thought to determine a person's temperament and features.

It was a conception of Western ancient physiological theory and still current in the European Middle Ages." Lawson notes that 17th century theologian and keeper of the Vatican Library, Leo Alatius' discussion of the creatures in the 17th century extends the Strigis' victims to include women.

Quote, "'Strigis,' Alatius tells us, in effect, "'are old women whom poverty and misery drive to contract an alliance with the devil for all evil purposes.' men are little molested by them but women and still more commonly children being a weaker and easier prey suffer much from them their breath alone being so pernicious as to cause insanity or even death they are especially addicted to attacking newborn babes sucking out their blood and leaving them dead or so polluting them by their touch that what life remains to them is never free from sickness End quote.

Over nearly two and a half millennia, Stregis have managed to remain fairly true to their roots.

One side of this intellectual activity is the revival of the study of ancient learning, the hunt for manuscripts, the study of the classical languages, the exposition of the great writers of antiquity and the copying of their style.

Perhaps the best representatives of this accumulative and imitative side of the Renaissance are Pope Nicholas V, the founder of the Vatican Library, and Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, afterwards also Pope, as Pius II.

But the Renaissance was not only imitative, it was also creative.

It emancipated men's minds from the old restraints imposed upon them.

written about by St. John of Damascus, transforming into a bird had not been removed from their mythology, for in the 11th century, the statesman and theologian Michael Silos wrote that, quote, the superstition invests old women with this power providing them with wings in their extreme age and represents them as settling unseen upon infants whom it is alleged they suck until they exhaust all the humours in them Humor, coming from the Latin liquid or fluid, was, according to Encyclopedia Britannica, "...one of the four fluids of the body, thought to determine a person's temperament and features.

It was a conception of Western ancient physiological theory and still current in the European Middle Ages." Lawson notes that 17th century theologian and keeper of the Vatican Library, Leo Alatius' discussion of the creatures in the 17th century extends the Strigis' victims to include women.

Quote, "'Strigis,' Alatius tells us, in effect, "'are old women whom poverty and misery drive to contract an alliance with the devil for all evil purposes.' men are little molested by them but women and still more commonly children being a weaker and easier prey suffer much from them their breath alone being so pernicious as to cause insanity or even death they are especially addicted to attacking newborn babes sucking out their blood and leaving them dead or so polluting them by their touch that what life remains to them is never free from sickness End quote.

Over nearly two and a half millennia, Stregis have managed to remain fairly true to their roots.

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Well, there's the Vatican Library that a lot of people claim.

There are books that are very old or that at least tell of this very ancient history that we haven't been told about.

Yes.

Here's a good example.

Vatican Library.

I love this.

You know, all these great, you know, conspiracy theories.

Well, you know, they never release anything from the Vatican Library.

They're not going to tell you anything.

There's a good reason for that.