medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> > This particular practice is very common in Italy,
>
> i believe that the custom was a universal.
It was also a very old practice that was widespread at both Roman and Greek
healing shrines -- one of many synchretistic devotional practices found in medieval
religion, and beyond.
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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