Black Plague

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creator against them left many people to wonder what they could do to save themselves.

Jew`s were blamed for causing the plague, as they were clean and very sensible with their hygiene, when the plague first hit Jews soon learned not to use the city’s water supply and to go out of the city to collect water from lakes, rivers etc, as they soon realised that it was water that was one of the contributing factors towards the plague.

People then started to become suspicious as to why Jews weren’t getting sick in large numbers unlike everybody else; they then started to think that the Jew’s had something to do with the plague or better yet were responsible for it. Everywhere there where accusations about how they (Jews) were poisoning the wells with deadly poison made from “spiders, owl`s, human flesh, owls, frogs lizards etc, and just to add to the mix the hearts of Christians all boiled down and ground into a fine powder.

The official use of torture for “guilty” Jews was ...

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the air growing bigger as she touched the lips (kiss of death) of an unsuspecting person.

While others swore that this “phantom” was actually a man riding horseback on a giant black horse through the town`s/village`s. Many people insisted that the Black Death was the evil work of satin. Rumours also surfaced that the disease was the work of an antichrist- a wicked figure that many Christians expected to arrive before the end of time, many of these tales had said that the antichrist had prepared and spread plague poisons made of aconite, arsenic, napellum and other gross ingredients.

There were many effects of the plague on the British society, the disease had disrupted European ...

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