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<blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8521797" data-attributes="member: 6988941">Indeed, I think if anything the marginalized group most closely associated with false accusations of well poisoning in the middle ages was lepers (I read an academic article on it at some point, but can't remember the details). And really if I was going to look for a reason why someone would write a fantasy story involving a cult poisoning a well, and somehow the common fantasy trope of that happening and a clunky allegorical reference to supposed toxicity of the community of &quot;Morrus&quot; didn't explain it, I'd just guess that the author used some of their pandemic downtime to binge the Wild, Wild Country documentary series on the Rajneeshpuram community that was promoted heavily on Netflix a few years back, which featured a real world religious community actually being involved in poisonings (including of public water supplies, though the main incident was salad bars).LaNasa and co. seem to suck plenty, but even Freud acknowledged that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Benjamin Olson, post: 8521797, member: 6988941"] Indeed, I think if anything the marginalized group most closely associated with false accusations of well poisoning in the middle ages was lepers (I read an academic article on it at some point, but can't remember the details). And really if I was going to look for a reason why someone would write a fantasy story involving a cult poisoning a well, and somehow the common fantasy trope of that happening and a clunky allegorical reference to supposed toxicity of the community of "Morrus" didn't explain it, I'd just guess that the author used some of their pandemic downtime to binge the [I]Wild, Wild Country[/I] documentary series on the Rajneeshpuram community that was promoted heavily on Netflix a few years back, which featured a real world religious community actually being involved in poisonings (including of public water supplies, though the main incident was salad bars). LaNasa and co. seem to suck plenty, but even Freud acknowledged that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. [/QUOTE]

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