floating in the air, exposing it as an absolute fairy tale. Even though these writers quickly tried to regain control of the narrative to show their readers that they were still superior in other ways, the cognitive dissonance was immense.
Hans Dernschwam documented similar observations. Then there was the captive soldier Johann Wild, who traveled all the way to Mecca and Medina.His firsthand account actually had to be used to finally debunk the bizarre European myth that the Prophet Muhammad's coffin was magically