During the plague, millions of bodies piled up across Europe. Can you imagine the putrid stench? Through it all, Europeans could count on one group during the epidemic: the body collectors.
They had to travel the streets, carting away corpses in what might be history's most undesirable job.
In this episode, we will look at what it was like to be a body collector during The Great Mortality.
Are. You. Ready?
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