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Today we examine how blaming cats may have added to the victims of Black Death.

Tags:

• Archaeology
• Black Death
• cats
• cat
• doctor
• holy man
• church
• plague
• flea
• kill
• burial
• mass
• pandemic
• disease
• illness
• medieval
• Europe
• graveyard
• graveyards
• grave
• mass burial
• skeletons
• excavation
• blame
• witch
• witches
• witchcraft
• trial

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