Plague Doctor (free pattern)
In the last months I saw him on social media regularly: the Plague Doctor, often accompanied by the words 'Wash Your Hands'. I doubt that plague doctors ever said that, because in their time running water wasn't available for everyone. Besides: people didn't know about bacteria and viruses back in the days, so washing your hands wasn't common use. People knew you could get sick by having contact with another sick person, though. The plague doctor wore a leather gown, a mask with glass sight holes and a beak that was stuffed with flowers and herbs to hide the stench of reeking wounds, all to protect him from contamination by sick people.The long stick was for poking people to see if they had the plague and if they were still alive. In a way his gear looks like what we are still wearing nowadays when we have contact with people that are infected by dangerous contagious diseases. In my hospital we wear protecting gowns, special masks and goggles and glo...
Oooh, now isn't that out of this world fantastic?! :) Sorry, I love puns and word play, but it really is terrific and just as cute as can be. I'd wear it to go to a local observatory that's located less than an hour away from our house, if I had one myself.
ReplyDelete♥ Jessica
Haha, love playing with language, too, but I'm not a native speaker of the English language, so I'm not so good with language jokes in English.
ReplyDeleteI've been to an observatory once in my life (but it was one of the best in the world, located at Mauna Kea in Hawaii) and I've never seen so many stars in my life! Great, great experience!!