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Last full accuracy audit: 2026-09-07 · 22 entries checked · 10 flagged · 17 issues confirmed · 0 corrected · 17 still open
Acheiropoieta — The claim that the mosaic icon of Christ of Latomos in Thessaloniki is 'the only indisputably surviving acheiropoieton' is not a widely accepted fact in mainstream scholarship; other acheiropoieta like the Mandylion copies and the Shroud of Turin are more comm
Acherusia — The entry states that in Plato's Phaedo, 'neutral souls and repentant people who performed great crimes are cleansed in the Acherusian Lake before proceeding onward.' This is not incorrect, but the additional claim that 'People who committed great evil yet wer
Acherusia — The entry says 'In the 4th-century Apocalypse of Paul, the archangel Michael washes souls in the Acherusian Lake before their entry into the City of Christ.' The Apocalypse of Paul describes the Acherusian Lake as a place of cleansing where souls are washed by
Antediluvian — The claim that early geologists divided the antediluvian into Pre-Adamitic, Primary, Secondary, and Adamitic sub-periods is not a standard or widely-known classification from early geology; these terms appear in theological or speculative chronologies, not in
Jesus in comparative mythology — The entry claims that Jesus's traditional birthdate on 25 December was at one point named a holiday in honour of the Roman sun god Sol Invictus, which is misleading because the Sol Invictus festival (Dies Natalis Solis Invicti) was established by Emperor Aurel
Queen Lupa — The entry claims that in the Golden Legend, Lupa sends the disciples to Mount Ilicino to fetch oxen and that the cave is an entrance to hell guarded by a dragon, but the actual Golden Legend does not mention a dragon; the dragon is a later addition from Galici
Massacre of the Innocents — The entry states that the narrative draws on a 'first-century expanded version of the Exodus story,' but no such specific first-century expansion is known; the comparison is typically to the biblical Exodus account itself.
Massacre of the Innocents — The entry says Macrobius's account is 'dismissed as late, possibly influenced by' and implies it refers to the Massacre of the Innocents, but Macrobius's anecdote actually refers to Herod's son Antipater, not the massacre.
Noonday Demon — The entry claims Jesus used the 'antirrhetic method' in the Judaean desert, which is anachronistic as the term refers to a later monastic practice and is not found in the Gospels.
Osculum infame — The entry claims that the kiss was 'an act of penance issued from the Devil' in the North Berwick witch trials, but the source 'Newes from Scotland' describes the Devil imposing the kiss as a specific punishment for tardiness, not as a general act of penance.
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