Poveglia Island
Horrific History & Hauntings
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How to Fight the Plague
People would use incense smoke from, or smoke from thatch and they would shove bouquets of flowers in their faces. This actually didn't do anything. It just mashed the smell of their dying. And boob-boo-ing chicken poop. Decomposing corpses. All the corpses out until you're having to haul off. What ever happened to the poor dead chickens? Did they eat them? Did they eating the boob-Bo chicken? I don't know. The people who sold those birds were also the people who collected them and sold the dead ones on the market to the people who are still fine.
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