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#Black Plague
h-medicinalis · 1 year
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yeoldegodzilla · 4 months
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More medieval plague imagery featuring Godzilla.
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virgocurator · 6 months
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Memento Mori
Gold pendant,
1500s, France
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kotias · 4 months
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An Arrangement in Black (part 1) - angst war contribution
@goodomensafterdark @daneecastle @gleafer @gahellhimself-blog @vavoom-sorted-art
I'm ENTERING THE DANCE
Part 2 - End
Word count: 145 words
Dum.
Thus went the bells of the church in the dead of night, announcing the passing to a new day.
Dum. 
Thus went the path of the demon Crowley, damning the gardens under the holy establishment.
Dum.
Thus went the dark smoke following him from over the moors.
Dum.
Breathing a gas that meant death, the colony of rats trailed his path, critters travelling in a single motion.
Dum.
His plague mask on and hiding under a long, black cloak, he felt like the personification of Death themselves.
Dum.
Patient Zero.
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Infested house.
Dum.
Coughing. Shivering. Heart burns. Bleeding. Suffocating.
Dum.
The stench of rotting bodies taking the entire village.
Dum.
The new dawn was approaching.
Dum.
His plague mask fell to the ground.
Dum.
Thus went the bells of the church under the midday sun, calling the mournful to rest in its shade.
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autistic-af · 10 days
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Infodump time - Black Plague Style
Eyam Village - AKA the plague village
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In 1665, a local cloth merchant brought in an order which unknowingly had a rat flea infestation to the town of Eyam, located in Derbyshire Dales, England.
Very quickly, the Bubonic plague began to spread through the town and the people had a meeting to discuss what was to be done. Reverend William Mompesson declared that the town should quarantine to stop the spread.
By the end of their 14 month quarantine, 260 of the 800 villagers had died, but it did not spread beyond the town.
To stop the spread, the villagers vowed to:
Bury their own dead as quickly as possible close to their homes to avoid spreading of the plague
Close the church and have worship in open spaces, away from neighbours
Not to cross the village boundary stone
No victims of the plague (other than the reverend's wife) are buried in the church graveyard. Instead, family plots can be found throughout the village.
The original boundary stone is still there, where outsiders would drop off goods for the town supplies. The stone has several holes drilled into it, where money for the goods would be set in vinegar to kill off any plague, as the cause of spread was still unknown.
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claypigeonpottery · 2 months
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a plague doctor and a pile of skulls, all surrounded by juniper
some people burned juniper during the black plague, to try and cleanse houses of the sickness. I wish I had a video of this piece, there's smoke carved around both the skulls and the plague doctor but it doesn't read well in these photos
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lexidafree · 7 months
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Title: Ripped Ribbons 🎀
Another in my series of Sweet Plague Nurses
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doctor-soot · 6 months
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can anyone recommend some good educational stuff or maybe movies on the black plague and the plague doctors. im in that special interest phase where i just can't consume enough knowledge i nEED MORE
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astr00-b0yy · 5 months
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Good morning/night yeah!
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I like how this turned out
For the ditys of: @zucchiyeni I hope you like it!
(I think I misstook the @ sorry if I didn't then sorry again 🥲)
So, I couldn't think of anything better than a doctor form that time, I got this idea from Pinterest, nothing new, but I think it quite fits him since as far as I know these doctors used to got pretty sick from the black plague, they're clothes were good made and I could say pretty good for that hard time but as I know they still got pretty sick and on tons because they had direct touch with the illness, I read a little more about it before doing it so that's the text in the draw, I have 0 clue how accurate to real history it is I just got that from National Geographic so don't end me
(or do)
(I'm half sleep if this doesn't have consistent I will edit this tomorrow goodnight)
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laplagadjs · 9 months
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Two Plague Doctors at a sea harbor
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mamomare · 1 year
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Ultimate Decades Challenge 1340-1350
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This has been a brutal decade. I went from having several side families back to only two at the start of the 1350s. Thanks 100 Year War and the Black Plague! I’ve also had consistent bad rolls and so many babies and potential parents have died! I hope I can bring the family back in the 1350s, keep your fingers crossed for me... Births 1344 - Norman Brooker 1346 - Ivett Brooker 1346 - Andrew Smith
Marriages 1341 - Adam and Isolda Brooker 1343 - Ellis and Magge Brooker 1344 - Christopher and Avice Smith 1347 - Herbert and Estrid Payne
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Deaths (Not including babies) 1341 - Eva Brooker, Eleanor Clifford 1344 - Isolda Brooker 1346 - Ida Brooker, Osbert Baker 1347 - Ellis Brooker 1348 - Edith Baker, Godfrey Clifford, Joan Clifford, Adelard Clifford, Mabel Clifford, Lucia Clifford, Margary Baker, Alviva Hurst, Nicholas Hurst, Robert Hurst, Herbert Payne, Christopher Smith 1349 - Avice Payne, Magge Brooker
Current Family Tree * Note: I remove “dead” branches of the family tree to keep it manageable. 
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Current Family Lot
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yeoldegodzilla · 2 months
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Godzilla during the black death was often depicted as a metaphor for the disease.
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kanosaltier · 4 months
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Black Plague 💉
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kotias · 4 months
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An Arrangement in Black - part 2
I AM CONTINUING THE DANCE
@vavoom-sorted-art @gleafer @gahellhimself-blog @daneecastle
Part 1 - Part 3
Word count: 334 words
Trigger warnings: death, rotting bodies, black plague, smell of death
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Upon his arrival in Ewelme, Aziraphale, dressed up as a priest, had to contain a gag.
Bodies upon bodies were stacked up around it, all in different stages of decomposition -for you see Mr Fell, our priest has fallen too, we had nobody to bless them.
The state of this particular village was very dire indeed; more than half of its inhabitants, if not two thirds of them, had died from the disease.
He met a pair of dull eyes amongst the pile and shivered.
Some of the bodies, under the terrible summer weather, were almost indistinguishable from one another, crushed below the more recent ones.
But the worst part was not the vision itself. The worst part was smelling the atrocity of the situation before even seeing it.
The stench was violent, forcing its way into his body like a rat into a bag of wheat. It had rotten his nose, poisoned his throat and left a lasting scar into his lungs. No coughing, no plague mask, no perfume could help this; the odour had already contaminated his entire body and the clothes he was wearing. His other senses were dulled horribly, as if a black veil had draped over them and refused to lift, forcing him to take it in entirely.
Black Death was an awfully appropriate nickname for this horrible plague.
For this time, Aziraphale relinquished an old habit to pass as a human and stopped breathing; without that, he was not entirely sure how he could sustain staying in the place long enough to help the survivors.
“Let us… begin with this.”
Not breathing helped only slightly. The stench was well clenched into his nose, and wasn't going to go away that easily.
But together with the healthier survivors, they dug a large hole, big enough to host the dead who had accumulated. When they estimated the size to be enough, he started his blessings over the Earth, then proceeded to pray for the souls of the people who died.
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ancientorigins · 6 months
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If Covid taught us anything, it’s the importance of good hygiene. Which makes you wonder, what was hygiene like during the Black Plague of the 14th century?
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claypigeonpottery · 4 months
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a little plague magnet
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