Cops hunt for person wearing creepy 17th-century plague doctor costume By . Natalie O'Neill. ... The menacing oddball — who sports a black cloak, hat and beak-like mask — has been spotted ...

The plague doctor costume looks like a cross between a steampunk crow and the Grim Reaper, and has come to represent both the terrors of the Black Death and the foreignness of medieval medicine.

It’s not as a doctor plying noble trade that has given the costume its staying power. Plague equaled death, and when you have black garbed doctors roaming around with giant protruding mask noses ...

So, if you see someone wearing a plague doctor costume this Halloween and their history isn’t quite up to snuff, make sure they share their candy with you first, before gently correcting them ...

Three horrific plague pandemics swept across the globe before its cause was ultimately uncovered—the Plague of Justinian, which killed up to 10,000 people a day circa A.D. 561; the Black Death ...

His costume was similar to what was worn by doctors treating patients during the Black Death outbreaks of the 1600s. The beak would have been stuffed with sweet smelling herbs which were wrongly ...

Even though the Black Death of the 14th century is estimated to have killed over a million people in Italy, it was the the plague epidemic between 1656 and 1658 which killed 145,000 people in Roma ...

Pictures obtained by 7 News showed the teen dressed in all black, with a beaked plague doctor mask and what appeared to be a large cross necklace.

With their dark, heavy robes and beaked masks, the plague doctor will forever be associated with the bubonic plague, even though they first appeared in France and Italy in the 1600s, nearly 300 ...

WEST CHESTER, Ohio — West Chester police are trying to find a man they say committed a robbery while wearing a large "plague doctor mask." It happened on September 22 around 6:45 p.m. behind the ...