Oh, yes, of course. For some 50 recipes there are just 1-2 which are crazy like that. Which still makes it a ridiculous amount of horribleness but that definitely doesn’t mean that the people followed only weird non-working procedures. They were not idiots, they just weren’t educated (thus were able to believe anything, broadly speaking) and such recipes were not formed using scientific approach.
Back in the day they also believed madness was contagious.
I have my hat off to the guy who was brave enough to feed the lungs to the mad person.
I kind of like this idea as well, but I wonder how well it would play in practice since we are all modern folks who (I assume) “know better” these days. I mean, if in the game we know that it is simply the superstition of the people of the time, then how do you make it exciting and make the experience capture the sense of it being a real werewolf (or whatever) when all of us know full well that there’s a rational explanation for whatever it is. Part of the excitement of these experiences in fantasy games is that the creatures ARE real (in the game).
Again, I think it’s a cool idea, but perhaps a more creative thinker than I can figure out how to make it work without turning KCD into a fantasy game.
There are lot’s of people now who believe supernatural nonsense and i am sure there where a couple of people back then making fun of others for there believes. For example somebody who made recipes like the above up and maybe sold the cure. Or people who thought themselves above the superstition of the uneducated.
But in the context of playing a video game in a medieval setting of course nobody would believe stuff like that works because were being told it doesn’t before ever time somebody mentions the middle ages. However knowing one thing is a superstition doesn’t mean you don’t believe in lot’s of other things that are wrong. Just pleas don’t make ever character treat every superstition as fact. What better way to distinguish your self from a group of people than dismissing there believes as falsehoods.