Talk:Salome/@comment-37451721-20190805144904/@comment-37644378-20190805203654

I'm gonna give you the short story, so I'll ask all religious people here not to get mad if I omitted something:

Salome was the step-daughter of King Herod and his sister Herodias. At that time, Joan the Baptist (the man who was thought to be the messiah before Jesus Christ and was said he could even exorcise demons) was openly against the incestuous marriage of Herod but couldn't be executed because he was a pretty big shot beloved by the masses. So, adviced by Herodias, Salome performed an erotic dance to Herod and all his guests in the middle of a feast (thing that, even by standards from back then, was pretty fucked up), but apparently his step father and the guests were all so mesmerized by her dancing that he promised her to give her whatever she wanted in the world, to which she answered "I want the head of Joan the Baptist in a silver tray" which he, much to his displeasure, was forced to comply.