What happened to hermaphrodites in the past?

By the past, I mean no more than a century ago, if that, all the way to as far as you want to go.
I’m reading a book called The Book of Shadows which features a hermaphrodite in nineteenth century France, who is based on an actual person. The book is partially Gothic erotica, and it has witches and demons and stuff, but the protagonist’s adventures are initially triggered by her ’‘difference’’. She’s treated horribly by the convent she grew up in when they find out, is branded as a witch, and then rescued by an actual witch and well…that’s not my point. Lol.

What did people make of hermaphrodites back then? A big part of our history is devoid of scientific study, leaving medical anomalies to the care of superstition. Were hermaphrodites branded as demons or witches? Did people perform exorcisms on them? I mean, people had exorcisms performed upon them for sleeping problems, (nocturnal paralysis/terrors) or for women who squirted upon orgasm. Example.

Some places in the world are still highly superstitious when it comes to this kind of stuff. So imagine just a few hundred years ago, when someone was a hermaphrodite, how they must have been treated. Hell, gender role TODAY is still a big deal, and that’s based on what you should be depending on what gender you are… so just imagine what that would have been like for a hermaphrodite back when social and gender roles were even more set in stone than now. It must have been a whole other ballpark. :/

While I say science was basically non existent, that’s actually terribly false of me to say. Despite that, knowledge wasn’t as widespread to everyone as it is today, at least in many cases, or so I understand. So anywhere around the world in the past, what did people make of hermaphrodites? Is it possible that hermaphrodites weren’t always treated as freaks, and could lead happy lives? What about today? Are there places in the world where they think this is some kind of curse or something? I spoke with a younger girl a while back who is really unruly and a troublemaker…and her parents actually hired ’‘exorcists’’ to set her straight. I’m talking about fucking 2009 here. No joke, unless she made it up. Or you see this often…a malformed child born in a place like India, and is seen as the coming of a deity.
So that book makes me wonder what hermaphrodites got treated like, and how they may still be treated today. Thoughts, squishy bros?