Once Europe was dark and illiterate, the literacy was mainly owned by monks who were engaged in the correspondence of sacred texts and, as usual, made mistakes. But, of course, not by themselves, the demon was to blame for everything, of course …
His name is Titivillus, he serves the Prince of Darkness himself and he was busy at that time, exclusively, slipping errors in the manuscript. The successfully inserted error guaranteed the hapless scribe a special entry in the hellish book of errors and was counted at the Last Judgment. Titivillus usually came with a bag - in which he carried these very mistakes.
Evil tongues said that the monks invented everything, they say, from sitting for many hours in the scriptorium, the flame of reason dims and roofing felts from clouding of roofing felts from boredom, they invented some kind of demon, on whom they blamed all the blame for their inattention and even often for hooliganism.
One way or another, but the first mention of him we see in the Treatise on Repentance (Tractatus de Penitentia) written by John of Wales around 1285. The Last Judgment served as a good disciplining factor and soon the monks tightened up their penmanship so much that our hero had to retrain and start collecting empty chatter which parishioners indulged in during long church services. This is exactly how his contemporaries captured him.
The most serious were the imperceptible errors in the Holy Scriptures - they could pass from scribe to scribe, and with the invention of the printing press, the speed of their repetition increased significantly.
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For example, in 1561, a document entitled “Anatomy of the Mass” was populated with some record number of errors, which had to issue an additional book with corrections. And the printer? And what about the printer? Of course he said it was the Devil's work..
The then Pope Sixtus V was forced to issue a papal bull stating that any printer who made changes to the text of the Holy Scriptures would be excommunicated. Nevertheless, this did not help and one of the copies of the Bible even had to be withdrawn, since it was not possible to seal all the mistakes there.
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From me: of course, since then, the demon has taken over related industries - cinema, television, of course - the Internet. Hmmm. At least, by "blind spots" I am definitely a sinner. And, judging by the considerable attention of the people scolding me, there is a lot more …
