A child's mind biologically is as complex as any adults. ... A child thinks of things that are simple, that they like, that they don't like. ... Before his fifth birthday, he'd also seen a tree full of angels in a field at Peck ham Rye. Throughout his relatively long life, the visions and communion he had with the angels, as a child never left him. ... The voice of the chimneysweeper is very simple, sweet and child- like. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This can most easily be seen in the center engraving of the Virgin Mary holding the Child. ... As the ancient Egyptians lived during fifth century B.C.E. many natural phenomenon that was unexplained was accredited to the spiritual world. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Cheese and the Worms was a story written about a sixteenth-century miller, named Domenico Scandell, who went by the name of Menocchio. He was denounced to the Holy office being accused of speaking heretical and most pious words about Christ. Carlo Ginzburg uses trial records as his primary sou...

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