The plague was once the most feared disease in the world, capable of wiping out hundreds of millions of people in seemingly unstoppable global pandemics and afflicting its victims with painfully ...
Plague doctors, or at least images of plague doctors, are having a bit of a cultural moment again, roughly 300 years after their actual heyday. They’ve become popular motifs for stickers, pins, masks, ...
It’s the beak that lends the attire of the medieval plague doctor its surreal quality, but it wasn’t there just to scare. From the Series: Mystic Britain: Witches ...