The pope (Gregory IX) and Jesuit witches outlawed cats in the early 13th century(1200s). Cats had been killing the rats, which hosted the fleas, which in turn over populated and spread "The Black Plague" through traditional trade routs until, the "cats came back. Only the Aristocracy kept their cats through this ban as many more vulnerable cats and citizens where burned at the stake as witches.
Similar methods where used on the Native American people via Small Pox in blankets distributed to the masses by non other than, Catholic missionaries.
see also: historical accounts; Scores of children actually kidnapped by "the pied piper, from Hamelin, Germany.
Answer Rather than digest the lunacy presented above, it would be better to read the following link for a more level-headed treatise on the Black Plague, especially the part about the Black rat being replaced by the Brown Rat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death == == == ==
The black plague
The black death is also known as 'The Black Plague' but the scientific name for it is the bubonic plague.
The black death, or bubonic plague, was caused by a bacteria, thought to be Yersinia pestis.
Black Death Plague was pandemic during 1346 to 1353. It killed 75 to 200 million people.
yes it was. and this form of the plague affected the blood and caued the skin to turn black hence the reason they called it the BLACK DEATH
rats first transfred the plague to humans. form there it killed the most humans of any plague knon to man
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Another name for the plague is the black death
Black plague
the black plague
The Black Plague is a infectious disease.
That fateful year saw the world's population enduring what is believed to be a recurrence of the bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death or the Black Plague. It is further widely believed that the Black Death was responsible for the deaths of 38,000 Londoners that year.
The common name for bubonic plague is the Black Death.
The black plague
during the medieval period of time
The black plague. The plague was transferred by rats.
It is the Black Death. (Black Plague, or Bubonic Plague)