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andrepdlast Monday at 3:17 PM1 replyview on HN

When someone passing through first rode a bicycle through my grandmother's hamlet, there was a general panic and someone even shrieked "the Devil comes, in two wheels!".

This was in the 1930s.


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BaseBaallast Monday at 4:29 PM

I vaguely remember reading somewhere about people seeing warriors on horseback for the first time calling them four legged demons or some such thing. I wonder what it would take to elicit that type of panicked response today?