What did the Europeans think caused the plague and how did they believe they could treat it?

      The Europeans had many reasons and thoughts on how the plague was first introduced. One reason is that they believed the Jews caused the plague by spoiling the drinking water. It seems like people back then blamed the Jews for EVERYTHING!!!! Another belief the people had was that God sent them the plague. But they believed he sent it to them in return for all of their sins. Neither of them really make any sense to me.

      There were a bunch of bizzar ways the Europeans thought you could stop the plague by. One of the oddest was carrying around a "bezoar stone." Another weird one was washing in vinegar. Why would anyone want to do that, you'll just be dirtier than you were before!!! Also supposedly if you didn't eat rich foods or drank alcohol, you couldn't get the plague. But that obviously didn't work either.

     One group of messed up men called the Flagellant Brothers thought they could rid themselves of the plague. They thought they could do this by going through a bunch of cities and whipping themselves. Again, why on Earth would u want to go through cities and have people watch you whip yourself!?!?! While they were thinking they were ridding themselves of this deadly plague, they were actually spreading it even more!!! Wow aren't they real smart..........

      These are they ways people thought you could rid yourself of the plague, and how the plague was even introduced in the first place.

When was the Black Death first introduced to Medieval Europe?

       The Bubonic plague, or Black Death was first introduced to medieval Europe in 1348 A.D. Historians think that the plague was brought from trade ships coming from Asia. But it wasn't the trade ships that caused the disease, it was the deadly rats aboard. These rats weren't born with disease in them, they were infected by fleas. The fleas were infected by the disease, and when they bit the rat, the rat would get the disease. Then the rat would go on the trade ships, usually attracted to some kind of food on the ship. When the ships would arrive to Europe, the rats would be released from the ships. Then the rats would go and bite people once off the ships.

       As soon as the person was bit, the germs from the flea that went through the rat, were  inside you. Then the germs would travel through all of your body. This immediately made you sick, and gave you a lot of painful symptoms. Once you got this disease, you were promised death. Almost nobody survived the epidemic. Most people who caught the disease, were dead within a week or less, depending on which plague you were infected by.