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by denton-scratch
1592 days ago
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> plague doctors who made efforts to protect themselves. Indeed - the figure of Il Dottore from the Commedia Del Arte wears a mask with a long "beak". The beak was stuffed with sweet-smelling herbs; in those days, they thought that it was bad smells that spread disease. Perhaps people gathered in churches because they burned sweet-smelling incence in churches? |
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