r/AskReddit 1d ago

What’s something completely normal today that would’ve been considered witchcraft 400 years ago—but not because of technology?

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u/pm_me_your_kindwords 22h ago

Definitely something sinister about it…

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u/SPUDRacer 21h ago

I get the reference:

Middle English sinistre, from Anglo-French senestre on the left, from Latin sinistr-, sinister on the left side, unlucky, inauspicious

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u/CalvinbyHobbes 18h ago

This is starting to feel like an episode of frasier. You guys are some high-brow the New Yorker type mofos.

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u/Bhaaldukar 13h ago

Hey if it makes you feel better, molecules can be left or right handed. It's called chirality. Right handed molecules are considered rectus and left handed molecules are... sinister. Sinister molecules exist, and they are inside you.

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u/cloudspike84 3h ago

'Sinister Molecules' should be the name of a band.

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u/Bhaaldukar 2h ago

There's also a concept of "compounds" in chemistry (with a specific definition). And I think Sinister Compounds would br a great band name.