Black Plague
The Black Plague The Black Plague : From the early fourteenth to late seventeenth century, Europe was decimated by one of the most horrifying pestilences human kind has ever known(Coulton 493). ... It was known as the Black Plague. ... Though people were introduced to the severity of the plague, they were still mystified as to the causes of the deadly disease. ... In the nineteenth century, the causes of the terrifying pestilence was discovered and the Black Death was no longer a conundrum. One myth, of the origin of the deadly plague was said to be a result of medieval gas warfare. ... One of the myths as to the cause of the Black Plague is quite an unusual story that was formed by peoples unexplainable imaginations. ... The plague reached the nearby lands and the epidemic began to take its murderous route. This myth arose from small villages as people spread rumor after rumor from the stories they had once heard as to the unexplainable causes of the plague. Though this tale is entirely nonsensical, people were still mystified because of the secrecy as to the causes that they were eager to believe any explanation that there was to offer concerning the deadly plague. ... Crighton also supported the findings that the plague had originated within the piles of dead corpses that were left unburied. ... Finally, the real truth to the origin of the Black Plague was found essentially to be a pestilence of rats and other small related animals(Rowling 186).