• Good Friday flagellants face rabies risk - Yahoo! News
  In the days of medieval plagues, the self-mutilation of flagellants helped spread the disease. . .things haven't changed.
  Dozens of men who whipped and cut their backs for a gory Good Friday ceremony in the Philippines risk contracting rabies after a fellow flagellant died of the virus earlier this month.
  enough oddly reuters
  in Public bookmarks with christianity disease medieval odd offbeat religion strange

medieval from all users