Being Left-Handed Was A Sign Of Evil Until Only Recently

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In ancient times, people believed that left-handed were truly evil individuals. There is evidence of many very ancient tools that have been used by left-handed people and human remains, which showed the left hand's dominance in daily activities.

Why did ancient people consider left-handedness to be evil?

In drawings, the Ancient Egyptians depicted all the good armies as right-handed, while their enemies were left-handed.

Also, the Hebrew Bible mentions left-handed people on three occasions: the story of Ehud's assassination of the Moabite king (Judges 3:12–30), the 700 Benjamites who could use the sling with deadly accuracy (Judges 20:16) and the two-dozen ambidextrous warriors who came to support David in Hebron (1 Chronicles 12:2). It is important to say that the Biblical stories left-handed people involve members of the tribe of Benjamin.

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