Quote:
Originally Posted by The Batlord
All this makes me wonder how people changed the way they lived during and after the Spanish Flu or the Bubonic Plague. You see plenty in general history books on the effects of lives lost during those times but basically nothing on how people adapted to living in a world with a deadly disease.
|
Hesse describes the flagellants in
Narcissus and Goldmund. Of course it’s fiction but the flagellants were real. They walked from town to town whipping themselves until their backs were ripped raw with chunks of missing skin. They entered churches during services and started up with all that self flagellation and skin and blood splattering all about and the congregations fell to their feet in adoration. Besides that people became obsessed with hell and damnation and figured if God had it like that in this life what chance did they have in the next. And many others turned to the classic in a crisis favorite and started killing Jews.