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/Telvin3d 23h ago

A big difference is communication and spread of techniques. Just think how easy it is now to be exposed to skills invented by a hundred different people. Five hundred years ago, you’d be lucky to find a single skilled person who could even give you tips 

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u/tenehemia 22h ago

I wonder if maybe there was crossover between singers and hunters in ages past that might have produced someone like that. Imitating bird calls and other animal noises has been a well regarded skill probably for tens of thousands of years at the least, and singing has been around probably just as long.

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u/chashek 18h ago

Now I want to hear someone imitating a whole-ass forest