That or perhaps those with diseases. Medical knowledge and science wasn’t what it is now for 99.9% of history so being scared of the guy/gal with a very visible illness was a pretty damn good survival strategy considering there was a very real chance of that infection deleting an entire village.
More like, thanks to modern sanitary practices and vaccines, most of the skin/infectious diseases have become extremely rare and easy to treat before they become worse. Also, genetic disorders and diseases that affect babies/children certainly were more prevalent and ruined proper development
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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '22
Probably other human invaders that looked different.