Hmm... I am right-handed, left-footed and hold my camera up to my left eye.
I think I need to be examined by a doctor. This set-up sounds all wrong!!
You would have passed the test centuries ago but I would have been burned alive!
All jokes apart, I understand that not long before I started at my Catholic school (Sacred Heart, Aston) the teachers would tie any child who was left-handed arm behind their backs to discourage them from writing left-handed. It sounds unbelievable these days but it used to go on as stated in this article below........
". But, even then, indeed as late as the
1960s and 1970s, Catholic school teachers in particular routinely inflicted
corporal punishment and
psychological pressure on left-handed students, ranging from accusations of being in cahoots with the Devil to, bizarrely, being
Communist. "
"Under the misguided aegis of the powerful
Catholic Church, left-handedness was vigorously
oppressed in medieval Europe, albeit not in any systematic way. Left-handers were routinely accused of
consorting with the devil and, during the excesses of the Inquisition and the
witch hunts of the
15th and 16th Century, left-handedness was sometimes considered sufficient to identify a woman as a
witch, and to contribute to her subsequent condemnation and execution"
Full Article:
http://www.rightleftrightwrong.com/history_recent.html
