Here are some of the darkest and least-known Christian beliefs
3. The obscene marginalia of medieval books
A grotesque image of an ogre shooting an arrow into another creature’s rear from the Rutland Psalter
During the era before the printing press, scribes were tasked with painstakingly copying page after page of manuscripts for their patrons. In order to make their task interesting, they might have filled the empty spaces of texts with grotesque marginalia including penis monsters, butts, poop, and a lot of vengeful animals.
Once Gutenberg invented the press in the early 15th century, it completely reformed the way books were produced and consumed.
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