Make your own. You can use paper mache' to make it.
Try making your own. Most Plague Doctor Masks I've found online are very expensive A good tutorial can be found at the site below. And to the original person who answered this -- google "plague doctor". Yes, people did wear masks.
It looks like a cone or birds beak so I would make one from paper mache'.
The best place to buy a Guy Fawkes mask in Toronto, Ontario, is a store that specializes in party supplies such as Party City.
During Black Death people used variety of methods. They used clothes mostly.
The black plague
Try making your own. Most Plague Doctor Masks I've found online are very expensive A good tutorial can be found at the site below. And to the original person who answered this -- google "plague doctor". Yes, people did wear masks.
Because they tried to cure the plague. Doctor who cures the plague --> plague doctor.
It looks like a cone or birds beak so I would make one from paper mache'.
They thought their clothing (and particularly their bird masks) would keep them from contracting the Plague. The whole costume was designed, or so they believed to ward off the plague. The beak was stuffed with herbs to keep the smell (and they thought the plague) at bay. The long waxed cloak and hat again to ward off the deathly plague and the staff to stop them having to touch the victims.
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the plague doctor was known as the witch doctor .... hope i helped!
Many were ridiculously long, as it was believed that the length of the beak would protect the doctor from exposure to the Plague by keeping him far away from the infected patient. Some beaks were a foot or more in length.
yes the plague doctor would get paid tuppence [2 cents] a day.
It could be the Doctor Rieux in Albert Camus' novel 'la peste' (the plague).
You can buy a scream mask at yo mamas house how about that!:]
The name of the bacillus that causes Bubonic plague is Yersinnia pestis.
See your doctor for antibiotics to cure it.