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Going into battle, dressed in wigs or walking backwards or wearing amulets to make you bulletproof,

wasn't something people did because they were crazy, but because it made some rational tactical sense.

I killed their brothers, killed their sisters,

rip them, cripple them, they are right not to forgive me.

And the most common idea is that they grease some kind of stick with a horrid concoction of rendered baby fat and evil spells and fly it.

The stick can be a pitch fork, it can be a tree branch, but very often it's a broomstick.

I'm Brian Klaas and you're listening to Power Corrupts.

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