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Iconic Plague Images are Wrong


Keel M.

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Many of the images we associate with the plague actually depict leprosy or smallpox. In fact, there are very few images of the Black Death from the time of the scourge.

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Wow! I really didnt know!

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The black death was not a disease transmitted by fleas to humans,mainly black rats.....it's a bit like who came first...the chicken or the egg......fleas bit rats....rats bit humans.....fleas bit humans....

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did you actually mean the bubonic plague.....and the reason for that is the most significant sign where bubble like lumps.........

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubonic_plague

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Graffiti etched on a wall in St Mary's Church, Ashwell, Hertfordshire. It tells us about when the Black Death came to the village in 1350, and left the village in 1361 when there were severe gales.

Pestile (n) cia
M.C.T.(er)x penta
miseranda ferox violenta
(discessit pestis) superset plebs pessima testis in fine qevent(us) (erat) valid(us)
(...h)oc anno maurus in orbe tonat MCCCLXI

Translation:


There was a plague
1000,three times 100, five times 10, 

a pitiable, fierce violent
(plague departed); a wretched populace survives to witness and in the end
a mighty wind, Maurus, thunders in this year in the world, 1361

 

 

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Let's worry about today with all the immigrants being let in or did we all forget about Ebola. 

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