"If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company"
-Jean-Paul Sartre (via man-and-camera)
(Source: man-and-camera)
During the Bubonic Plague, doctors wore these bird-like masks to avoid becoming sick. They would fill the beaks with spices and rose petals, so they wouldn’t have to smell the rotting bodies.
A theory during the Bubonic Plague was that the plague was caused by evil spirits. To scare the spirits away, the masks were intentionally designed to be creepy.
