I watched a documentary on the TV last night that said that the Black Death was caused by Vampires.
Supposedly the 14th century plague was carried and transmitted all across the European continent by Vampires and their followers.

Can anyone believe what we're being blamed for now?
I know I am not a Vampire but it is a bit like guilt by association.

What does anyone else think?
Is it possible? Or just yet more anti-Vampire propoganda?

Well as twisted as it is the is kind of a good thing because at least now there admitting that we exsist. Also were did you see this documentary?

Wolfbrother

Hmmm...Is having humans think we may be real a good thing?
I think that might be a whole other question that I'll post up in the Drawing Room so we keep this thread on topic.

And it was on the History channel or the Science/Discovery thingy channel. One of the geeky channels high in the numbers on Sky TV that you only watch if you're a nerd....a geek... or like me it's 3am and you STILL can't sleep.

See Dining Room for related topic suggested by the lovely Skeeve.

I have read this theory before, though I had not realised they had made it into a TV programme.

I am not convinced that blood drinkers caused the plague, however I think it is quite possible that any blood drinking Otherkin that were around then could have carried it without personal injury to themselves and therefore contributed to the spread and wide range of the disease.


BUT.......I refuse to let my people take the blame for the widespread, virulent nature of this disease.
I also do NOT believe that members of my kin fed ruthlessly on those pitiful, dying creatures, passing through villages like a swarm of locusts devouring every drop of blood served up to them, held within the defenceless and dying chalices of human flesh!

I am not a monster and neither are many of my kind.

Lady C.

Hey I watch those channels

Wolfbrother

Oh Skeeve, it's OK we won't tell anyone.

I guess I am a bit of a nerd, and you better not CTM I got stories

Wolfbrother

Erm
I actually read some pretty convincing evidence in New Scientist a couple of years ago that pointed out a few facts about Bubonic plague.
The main one being that the black death spread far too quickly to be Bubonic plague and was far more likely to be a very virulent form of Ebola.
The symptoms are similar in lots of ways but an airbourne Ebola could travel upto 70 miles in less than a day and infect a seemingly safe household, killing all the occupants within a very short time period.
there are many accounts of villages mysteriously falling ill and dying even when there had been no visitors and they were too far away to have gotten Rats from elsewhere.
Bubonic plague is only passed from flea to human by physical contact so couldnt possibly have gotten that far in such a short period of time.
I don't remember the details but the black death was killing people within 2 or 3 days where the bubonic and pneumonic plague have something like a week gestation period.

Zygo

You know I believe you when you say you read New Scientist Zygo.
You seem like the kind of person who would.

I think it is possible that like Lady C says the blood drinkers may have prolonged and spread the disease, but I doubt very much if they were the cause.
I think that some unscrupulous people these days will put Vampire/Elf/Werewolf on something, not because they truthfully have anything to do with the subject itself, but because they have realised that it will be more popular/sell better if they do!

It is disgusting...........
I feel so cheep and used!

Zygo I read a very similar magizine modern science that had a very similar article.

Wolfbrother

I feel just the same way.