The Crusades Against Bathing!

After the Inquisition bathing which was refined and promoted by the Blackamoors was a sure way to get the Inquisition to torture you, how that sentiment persists even today!

History Lesson: The Moors AKA the BLACK-A-MOORS taught the Europeans about cleanliness... daily bathing, introduced them to running water, and created breakfast, lunch, and dinner for those who think the Romans did it NO! for Romans bathing was not a daily thing they went to the baths to cover themselves in a thick oil like vaseline and scrape themselves off with ametal tool similar to a spatula and then they would dip themselves in hot water and cold and have someone spank their body withBay laurel, fir, pine, or juniper branches which were added for their curative essences, similar to today's aromatherapy. leaves this was an outing kind of like movie night.

Europeans never fully embraced bathing in fact Queen Isabella bragged she had only bathed twice in her life once at birth and on the eve of her wedding. Lice was considered a mild nuisance if not a blessing to many Europeans it was common enough among the poor and wealthy. However, lice and stench didn’t affect people much because Europeans actually believed that having lice is good for your health. The reason behind their beliefs was the fact that sick people rarely or never had lice. French became masters of perfume because they needed it to block out the smell of feces that covered the city streets they would douse a kerchief or lace to cover their noses so they wouldn't get ill from the stench! Despite its reputation for magnificence, life at Versailles in the 14th century through the 15th, for both royals and servants, was no cleaner than the slum-like conditions in many European cities at the time. Women pulled up their skirts up to pee where they stood, while some men urinated off the balustrade in the middle of the royal chapel.

Getting back to the Moors the Holy roman Church wrote an edict that everything the Moors brought and taught should be looked upon as suspicious and against Christianity therefore bathing regularly might make you suspect and warranting some interrogation or torture! Due to misguided medical beliefs and strict self-restraint doctrines, the Ante-Nicene Church Fathers condemned bathing, which they viewed as an immoral, promiscuous, and disease-causing act. All the Crusader States established in the course and subsequent to the First and Third Crusades were in locations that had been under Greek influence since Alexander the Great at the latest. They had also been part of the Ancient and Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empires before coming under Moorish influence from the 7th to 11th centuries AD.

This means that for the native population the predominant traditions with respect to personal hygiene came not from the Germanic tribes, Vikings or Celts, but from North Africans. Both the Greco-Roman and Arab/Turkish traditions shared the principle of having both hot rooms for steaming/sweating (like a sauna) and cold rooms for washing off. The major difference was soap and frequency.A papyrus found in Egypt that dates to 1550 BCE indicates that ancient Kemites or Kemetans bathed regularly and combined animal and vegetable oils with alkaline salts to create a fragrant soap. Muslims were the first to introduce soap as it is known today. They used vegetable oil, sodium hydroxide and herbal oils. In its earliest forms, Egyptians, West Africans and Mesopotamians used soaps of a sort. But alas, Following the legal measures against bathing and bathers, people were brought before the Tribunal of the Inquisition, tortured and punished, under bathing accusations.