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In Eugen Weber's Peasants into Frenchmen, he describes peasant folk beliefs about the magical powers of Catholic priests. Did folkloric beliefs about the magical powers of priests exist in the countries that went Protestant? And what happened to those beliefs after Protestantism?

by /u/jurble in /r/AskHistorians

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