Skull from the Black Death

Skull from the Black Death


Origin	Black Death (1350 A.D. France)
Type	Human Skull
Effects	Induces symptoms of the bubonic plague for over 8 hours.
Downsides	Reduces victims to ash after 8 hours.
Activation	Touching
Collected by	Arthur Nielsen and Pete Lattimer
Section	Morogold-ZZ393
Aisle	59940-3494-988484
Shelf	4030-3849555
Date of Collection	August 1st, 2023
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Origin[]

The Black Death (also known as the Pestilence, the Great Mortality or the Plague) was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Western Eurasia and North Africa from 1346 to 1353. It is the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history, causing the deaths of 75–200 million people, peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351. Bubonic plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis spread by fleas, but during the Black Death it probably also took a secondary form, spread by person-to-person contact via aerosols, causing pneumonic plague.

The Black Death was the beginning of the second plague pandemic. The plague created religious, social and economic upheavals, with profound effects on the course of European history.

The skull comes from a french peasant living sometime around 1350, whom possibly died in his early 20s and was partially burnt. Somehow, the anger and pain of dying a untimely death by the plague, was left imprinted into the person's remains, imbuing their skull with the power to make other experience their pain.

It is also possible the man was only a person blamed for the plague, as Jews were often blamed for the plague and the person may have wanted their torturers to feel the same pain. It is uncertain, although evidence for this being a plague victim is high.

Effects[]

Those who touch the skull will begin to suffer from flu like symptoms, starting as a cough, until becoming so weak they barely can move, then they will begin to form pustules until finally being disintegrated into ash.

Collection[]

Originally contained in the Paris catacombs until someone illegally stole it and smuggled it back to the states. The skull passed around Denver, Colorado until finally landing in a halloween/gothic store, being mistaken for a prop skull. It was collected by Arthur Nielsen and Pete Lattimer on August 1st, 2023.