#Whether or not any nuns actually got beaten isn't specified but the threat was there
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The nuns are at it again! Guards, get the whips
group meowing starts in 30min
#If anyone doesn't get it#In 1844 there was a book called “The Epidemics of the Middle Ages”#And in one paragraph the author said he'd read about an odd case in a “good medical book”#Supposedly in a really big French convent there were these nuns#One started meowing and the others joined in#LOUDLY mind you#The nuns would meet up the same time every day and just#MEOW loudly together#For multiple hours#They were literally so loud that the town got totally pissed at them#To the point where the cops sent soldiers that threatened to whip the nuns til they stopped#And supposedly it worked?#Whether or not any nuns actually got beaten isn't specified but the threat was there#Anyway the story isn't for sure proven since there's not much corroborating evidence but#Personally I think it's more fun to believe that it happened#(also if you look up other cases of mass hysteria n stuff#Meowing nuns seem kinda like something that fits)#Thank you for coming to my Ted talk where I overexplain my own joke
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