Flagellants were religious fanatics who whipped themselves as a penance. This is a practice that existed to some minor extent throughout history, and goes back to pre-Christian times.
During the Black Death, many people became flagellants because they thought the Black Death was a punishment for sins, and felt that they might do penance for these sins by beating themselves with whips. The Catholic Church took the position that flagellantism was a heresy, and it was condemned in a papal bull in 1349, while the Black Death was just underway.
There is a link below to an article on flagellants.
The Jews
A group of individuals known as flaggelants emerged whose aim was to dispel fear of the clergy. The flaggelants placed blame on Gods wrath, and insisted that it was the sins of men and women that compelled God to punish them. The efforts of the flaggelants began in Perugia and Central Italy in 1260, and their message soon spread north to other parts of Europe.
people blamed Black Death. On the church and kings.
Nothing done in war could be considering right. President Truman had his opinion and all took all the blame on the issue. The Japanese were planning to spread a plague in the United States.
The modern bubonic plague is treated with antibiotics, but it still has a very high mortality rate if not treated in the first 12-24 hours. In medieval times, they told people to improve their diet and move to fresh air. Needless to say, this did not work out well if they were already infected.
Some people carried herbs to ward off the plague, some people stopped bathing because they thought it was spread by the air, some just ran away, and some just blamed the Jews so they killed them; they even took hostages and forced people to lie and take the blame for spreading it
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They blamed almost anyone who was different in any way. They blamed the Jews, they blamed foreign traders, they even blamed foul smelling AIR for the disease! Many laid the blame on the sins of the people, believing that the plague was a punishment sent by God for their sins.
tyybalt is to blame because he killed mercutio under romeos arm.
Yes, but don't blame the pharmacist. Blame the doctors who have been over prescribing antibiotics for decades.
People had many different ideas as to what caused the Black Death e.g bad smells, people's sins e.t.c Sadly, the Jews were also believed to be the cause in some parts of Europe. And so the plague awakened an old antisemitic prejudice in people looking for a scapegoat to blame the plague on (the Jews).
They blamed the jews for the plague. Jews were usually one of the first targets for they were thought as unholy for not believing in Jesus.