Since this topic has been discussed on this list and others (as it
relates to folklore and conspiracy theories), it looks like the
bubonic plague is back, and has claimed a victim already:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,27712,00.html
In strange synchronicity, Hazel McKinlay and I were discussing
the Black Death in private e-mail, last night.
A previous posting which relates to this I made a few months
ago. Here is the excerpt:
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--- In [email protected], "Dean De Lucia"
<0108@t...> wrote:
Mike Mott,
Any opinions on The Pied Piper of Hamlin? It seems to fit in
with other
testimony and legends. I've put it up on my Abductions page.
http://skyboom.com/hollowearthpuranas/index12.html
Dharma/Dean
I mention this several times in my book as an example of a
possibly real event which has become legend. But I don't go into
great detail.
However, I recall reading in the past that something of this sort
did happen in the town that used to be called Hamelin, in the
middle ages. Some think it a confused reference to the deaths
of the children by black plague, and to the "Children's Crusade,"
when thousands of European children marched on the Holy
Land, only to end up as slaves of various sorts, murdered, or
tortured by the Saracens. But there are other tales which seem
to indicate that it happened as described, more or less.
An interesting phenomenon is that, during the years of the 'black
death,' many mysterious, dark and sinister strangers were
described as showing up or lurking about towns shortly before
the plague would strike. Some writers of fortean matters have
equated these mysterious strangers with both the MIB and the
elder race from the underworld. I don't think that this should be
so quickly dismissed. Was the black plague germ warfare
against an overpopulating humanity? Were human children led
away en masse before the release of such a plague in a
community, to preserve a genetic sample or pool from which to
sample? All interesting questions....
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Food for further conversation? The Black Death is serious
business....
Maybe there are those who are looking to "trim" the human
population yet again, by means of diseases carefully released in
selected areas.
--Mike