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Reply to "Do you believe in witches and demons?"

My experience with oral tradition is spotty, to say the least.

You've played the "Telephone Game" in which you start with a simple phrase, such as "Dogs turn around three times before they lie down". You whisper it to your friend, who whispers it to the next friend down the line, and by the time it gets back to you, it is "Blue sky is only blue because Joe says so"?

Such is oral tradition. Written tradition too, truth be told, with translation after translation by scribes of dubious quality. See Bart Ehrman if you don't believe me.


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