I can't imagine the sight of one of these was any comfort to a sick person in that time.
Plague Doctor Masks included red glass eyepieces, which were thought to make the wearer impervious to evilpic.twitter.com/p9FKgfTjdj
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Like, imagine being sick in a time when medical science as we know it wasn't even a thing and waking up to a giant crow-man with red eyes staring at you (and probably poking you with a cane).
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They were scary but perhaps not primarily for that reason. It was more like seeing one was a sign of death. You can almost never expect good news coming from these fellas during the plague
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Horror
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Do you have a source for this?
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The ones from pics 2 & 3 are on display at the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin.
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Yes, I've seen one of them in Berlin live already. :) But the information with the "red glass eyes" was so new to me, it made me curious.
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That’s me not sleeping tonight then!
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The two masks from Berlin and Ingolstadt don't have red eyepieces. And the last mask from Venice is so damaged the lenses have fallen out. like this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Plague_apparatus_from_a_lazaretto_in_Venice%3B_an_oil_cloth_ma_Wellcome_V0029672.jpg …
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There is no evidence.
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None of the masks shown have red lenses lol
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and aparrently you can buy one at the first store specializing in plague doctor masks http://plaguedoctormasks.com/ because, The Internetz
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A lot less intimidating than
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bad air don't care
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I don't know if these warded off the plague, but they scare the shit out of me.
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"Y'know our masks just aren't creepy enough "-plague doctor
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