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Satan's Claws

For nearly 400 years the fever for pointed shoes showed no sign of abating. The Church called them ''Satan's Claws'', they thought it encouraged licentiousness and also made it impossible for the wearers to kneel down in prayer. The Black Plague of 1347, they claimed, was God's punishment on humankind for wearing sinful footwear. In 1367, Pope Urban 5 banned them threatening wearers with excommunication. Most European countries passed some sort of law limiting shoe length for various classes. Charles 8 of France had to wear square toes. But since he was generally regarded as an idiot, the theory why the fashion caught on seems unlikely. More likely the world, as it does sometimes, just came spontaneously to its senses.

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