In ancient times, scorpions had once been regarded as "fantastical beasts."
Pliny the Elder, who died in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, wrote: Scorpions are a plague, a curse from Africa. Their tails bear stingers and are always twitching, ready to attack. Their stings are always fatal to girls and often fatal to women, but for men, they are fatal only if one is stung in the morning, when scorpion venom is at its strongest. The victim will die after suffering three days of agonizing torment. It was said that burning a scorpion to ash, mixing it with wine, and drinking it could cure its sting.
To most male wizards, Muggles posed no threat. Women and children were the truly dangerous ones, which was why Hogwarts had been concealed by spells, made to look like ruins in Muggles' eyes.
There was a powerful magical magnetic field near the castle. Every magical substitute used by Muggles malfunctioned here, which was why candles and lanterns were used in the castle.
Some might have considered it a nostalgic fondness for the old days, but Haji did not see it that way. His hometown seemed to still be in the Middle Ages, using candles and lanterns just the same.
At that moment, he actually missed his homeland and even felt it might have been better to stay there, because something worse than poverty and backwardness had appeared—Witch Hunts. This historical term, familiar yet unfamiliar to people living in big cities in the twenty-first century, had suddenly been laid before him, just like the long-dead Napoleon Bonaparte.
His hometown might have been poor and backward, without electricity or vehicles, but at least it had been peaceful.
Poor communication was a common phenomenon in rural Europe during the Middle Ages. That was precisely why churches became