And today we have Bibi Blocksberg teaching kids the joy of seasons and festivities through Walpurgisnacht.
Feels like some kind of cultural accomplishment.
Belief in witchcraft correlated with industrialization. As the world develops, more people a persecuted as witches.
The UN has even gotten involved in this: https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/ie-albinism/witc...
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
The most industrialised countries in the dataset correlate with the lowest belief.
But the population in those areas is not increasing much, unlike the others.
Unfortunately, neither China nor India are in the dataset.
And today we have Bibi Blocksberg teaching kids the joy of seasons and festivities through Walpurgisnacht.
Feels like some kind of cultural accomplishment.