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Fabulous Folklore with Icy

Plague Folklore: Strange Doctors, Cures, and the Black Death

  • 20:14
  • August 22nd 2020

From strange remedies involving live pigeons to supernatural theories of its cause, there is plenty of plague folklore throughout history. 

How much of it is true?

Let's find out in this episode of Fabulous Folklore.

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Fabulous Folklore will give you your weekly fix of fabulous folklore in fifteen minutes (or less)!

Hosted by fantasy and Gothic horror writer, Icy Sedgwick, the podcast explores folklore, legends, superstitions, mythology, and all things weird, occult and unusual.