Comments on: Plague Doctor 1656

By: lesvaches

lesvaches — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:01:30 +0000

Edward Gorey created a character based on this currently being turned into a film

www.edwardgoreyhouse.org/

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgCEq24-9sc

By: nyokki

nyokki — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:12:22 +0000

Interesting. I watched a show on History Channel (I think) about Nostradamus. It said that he wore an outfit something like this but w/ a lot of hay stuffed in it. Apparently he preached personal cleanliness and general sanitation as well (which most thought superstitious ironically). It is thought, now, that the hay may have made it impossible for the infected fleas to get through before he washed himself down.

By: multi_masked

multi_masked — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:50:51 +0000

In Hellblazer, they most recently had a two part issue dealing with one of these guys. It was kinda sick, and kinda twisted. Fun storyline though.

By: dieAntagonista

dieAntagonista — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:44:40 +0000

I have several masks that I got in Venice, they make very beautiful masks although the ones I have are intended for decoration.

By: dieAntagonista

dieAntagonista — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:41:38 +0000

It says:

“Der Doctor Schnabel von Rom

“Kleidung wider den Tod zu Rom. Anno 1656. Also gehen die Doctores medici daher zu Rom, wann sie die an der Pest erkrankte Personen besuchen, sie zu curiren und tragen, sich vor dem Gift zu sichern, ein langes Kleid von gewÃ¤xtem Tuch. Ihr Angesicht ist verlarvt, fÃ¼r den Augen haben sie grosse crystalline Brillen, vor den Nasen einen langen Schnabel voll wohlriechender Specerey, in der HÃ¤nde, welche mit Handschuhen wohl versehen ist, eine lange Ruthe und damit deuten sie, was man thun und gebrauchen soll.”

which translates to

“The Doctor Beak from Rome

Clothing against death at Rome. Anno 1656. So therefore the doctors go to Rome, when they visit a person who suffers from the plague, to cure them to carry them [the diseased], to protect them[the doctors] from the poison, a long dress made of waxed clothing. Their countenance is masked, for eyes they have large crystalish glasses, for the nose a long beak filled with flavoursome specerey (pepper I think?), in their hands, which are protected by gloves, a long rod, with which they instruct what one should do and use.”

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My translation sounds still a little awkward I know, but this is written in old German, and it sounds like, someone who doesn’t speak German very well, translated it from Italian into German.

Kind of creepy, but so fascinating.

By: Puulaahi

Puulaahi — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:55:28 +0000

I want one of those masks. But I want to buy it in Venice and wear it to a ball with a babebacious lady as my date.

By: nyokki

nyokki — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:49:47 +0000

Can anyone read it?

By: ack

ack — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:07:22 +0000

You’re probably right about that. Especially if the Jehovas Witnesses, 7th Day Adventists and the Born-Again Christians are there. I’ll take hell, thanks.

Say, where do the pagans go when they die. They seem like a fun loving bunch. Occasional pagan orgy would be good.

Maybe I could crash their after-party.

By: dieAntagonista

dieAntagonista — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:51:15 +0000

I was just messing with you, wise guy.

Besides, even if there was a heaven, what makes you think you’d wanna go there. It’s not like fromme Christen are the kind of people you’d have a lot of fun with or anything, am I right. The things they think are sinful on Earth, wouldn’t be any different in heaven.

By: ack

ack — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:39:32 +0000

Hell? Probably. We should pick a spot where we can all meet up.

Besides, if I laugh at burnt Jews, that does not get me the one-way pass to hell. I was Baptised Catholic. I still have time to rape, pillage, murder, and make gay porns before I ask Jesus to forgive me – and get absolved.

I could technically still make it to heaven. It’s all about the timing, my friend, all about the timing.