I'm watching a video about constructs in D&D and now I'm wondering, it's common knowledge golems come from Ashkenazic Jewish folklore, yet out of that, how many know that Rabbi Loew's golem was crafted as a guardian to protect Prague's ghetto during a rash of pogroms?
@Leucrotta We uh, didn't know either of those.
@Leucrotta You could start a poll.
I knew that.
@Leucrotta i learned it during the part of my teenage years when I was *really* into Franz Kafka
@Leucrotta@awoo.space i'm not sure that golems coming from Jewish folklore is common knowledge, honestly
@InspectorCaracal Okay! I'm honestly curious because I'd straight-up taken it for granted everyone knew golems came from our stuff, and why, but I mean... history's very whitewashed and we've been made so completely invisible, so that's a poor assumption on my part.
@Leucrotta@awoo.space yeahhh, i have first hand experience with that phenomenon and it sucks
@InspectorCaracal and I mean obviously you tell a small child growing up in rural Georgia "your heritage includes centuries of persecution, brilliant scientists (skipping a different rant here), serious scholarship and oh hey also there's a MONSTER STORY" and you can guess which one they're going to be most interested in learning about.
Like suddenly I realized, maybe other people *don't* know the back story and I'm honestly curious whether that's the case?