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Professor Weird explores the castration cult that swept Russia and Eastern Europe in the late seventeenth century. They were known as the Skoptsy, and the operation (which they called the Fiery Baptism) involved a red hot poker and no anesthetic... But we would never do anything like that in the modern day and age... would we?
By weirdcalderdaleProfessor Weird explores the castration cult that swept Russia and Eastern Europe in the late seventeenth century. They were known as the Skoptsy, and the operation (which they called the Fiery Baptism) involved a red hot poker and no anesthetic... But we would never do anything like that in the modern day and age... would we?