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Hecker, The Black Death. London: Cassell, 1888, p. 65. ”41 Obeying this order, the men on the ground stood up and began beating themselves again. Finally, they knelt before a large cross (representing the one on which Jesus was crucified) and listened as one of the masters recited the so-called flagellants’ sermon, which warned society’s sinners that God would sooner or later punish them. At first, many of the townsfolk who watched this weird public display either sang along with the self-mutilators, wept for them, or both.
This finally [got so bad] that guards were posted to see that no one who was not well known would enter a city or village. 31 Poor people and outsiders were not the only people targeted. Also suspected of bringing on the plague were mentally ill and physically challenged people who lived on society’s fringes. According to scholar James C. Giblin: On the edges of many villages, in poor huts made of sticks and straw, lived outcasts of various kinds. Some were deformed from birth, others were simple-minded, still others were insane.
From hunters and traders to sailors, city dwellers, farmers, and others, the rampant germs ravaged one host after another. Most modern experts are reasonably certain that the Black Death was bubonic plague that followed this general scenario. The primary evidence they cite to support this view is that many medieval The Facts About the Plague ■ 43 Plague bacteria mutiply in the lymph nodes, a part of the lymphatic immune system, and from there enter the bloodstream. writers described symptoms identical or at least very similar to those seen in modern cases of plague.