
The classic sign of the 14th Century bubonic plague was the appearance
of buboes shown in illustration, which are swollen lymph nodes in the groin, the neck
and armpits that oozed pus and bled. Most victims died within four to seven days
after infection. Illustration of the Black Death from the Toggenburg Bible in 1411.
“People were reporting ‘comets.’ But they were clearly not comets from the descriptions. People were reporting bright flying objects and saidthe aerial objects were spraying gas, which they called ‘mists’ that causedthe Black Death.
Men in black!
”The third phenomenon, which I found very intriguing, was the men in black happening at that time, too. In a number of villages and towns, people would report human-like figures dressed in black would appear on the outskirts of town with a long instrument they would wave back and forth. Right after that, a plague would break out. Sometimes people reported seeing these figures walking through town with these long instruments and right afterwards, the plague would break out in those towns.
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