“…St. John Chrysostom… introduced this innovation after a woman took a particle of the Body of Christ home for witchcraft. Upon learning about this, the Holy Hierarch ordered all the churches to use special spoons for Communion, to lay the Body of Christ, immersed in the Blood of Christ, directly into the mouths of the faithful, cutting off all sorts of temptations and opportunities for sacrilege and desecrating the Holy of Holies.”
 
(Priest Andrei Chizhenko in pravlife.org)