The Left-Handed Book: An Investigation into the Sinister History of Left-Handedness

by Michael Barsley

235 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1969

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[Louis · Rating 2 out of 5]

“Was the Devil left handed? Well, what other assumptions could right-handed and right-minded men make? Here, it is worth considering the tragic history of witchcraft. To have intercourse with the Devil, the most sinister sinistral of them all, was, in the opinion of the Church and the Law, one of the primary desires of witches. Any psychiatrist could have explained this, but it was not the age of the couch and the thesis and the Freudian interpretation. However, the sexual experience is described in Boguet’s Examen (1550): It was, they all agreed, a most unpleasant one, since, although Satan is credited with living in a very hot climate, his physical presence on earth seems to have been exactly the opposite. He was a cold lover, in fact, and one witness asserted that his Member was not only very chilly to the touch, but narrower than mortal man’s.”

It’s a joke, apparently left entirely unread.