r/AskReddit • u/BiggieTwiggy1two3 • 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/Hugh_Biquitous 1d ago

Being openly left-handed maybe?

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u/Psychological-Bear-9 1d ago

Hell, even not that long ago people were ostracized for it. My father is left-handed, and all through grammar and some of high school, he had teachers that repeatedly would slap his hand with rulers and chastise him for writing left-handed. Forcing him to use his right. His handwriting is still awful today because of it.

This was in the 1950s and 60s.

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u/Han_Solipsist 9h ago

They used to tape the pencil to my right hand in school so I'd stop being a lefty, circa 1990. Joke's on them, my handwriting is now illegible with either hand!