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Spiral Staircases Medieval Castles - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 6th Aug, 2015 - 10:46pm
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Left-handed people descendants of the devil?
Post Date: 4th Aug, 2015 - 3:18am / Post ID: #
Spiral Staircases In Medieval Castles
Spiral staircases in medieval castles are running clockwise. This is because all knights used to be right-handed. When the intruding army would climb the stairs they would not be able to use their right hand which was holding the sword because of the difficulties of climbing the stairs. Left-handed knights would have had no troubles, except left-handed people could never become knights because it was assumed that they were descendants of the devil
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Interesting. Shows you how ignorant people can be when they apply religion to their profession. If I ever get a chance to examine a castle I will be looking for the spiral staircase. 
Edited: Stacia on 4th Aug, 2015 - 2:51pm
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I didn't know that either! Oh well, no one ever claimed that people knew better during the middle ages, maybe that's why its also referred to as dark ages!
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