PLAGUE-LEGENDS

SECTION XIII

PLAGUE-LEGENDS

THE plague continued to rage in Eastern Europe long after it had disappeared from the West, and down to a very recent period. Consequently we find plague-legends, which have almost died out in the British Islands, except in Scotland, rife among all the Eastern nations. The Plague-demon is usually represented as female, but in the Esthonian legends it is masculine.

 The Plague once seated himself in a boat which was returning to the Island of Rogö,Next

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Footnotes

1 There is a similar tale told of the arrival of the Cholera in one of the Greek islands.

1 Speaking of the Vad Velen, the Yellow Plague, in Britain, we are told in the Mabinogion that all who saw him were doomed to die.

2 This story somewhat resembles that of the old hag seen by Lord Seaforth when lying ill of scarlet fever with several of his schoolfellows. The narrative has been reprinted several times, and is included in Stead’s More Ghost Stories, p. 37.