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This killed over 40 million people. This is half of the European population of those days. It began in Asia. There are two kinds, Bubonic and Pneumonic. Usually, however, many outbreaks happened in the summer, in the warm climates without heavy population. Also rats did not appear in all the areas affected. The epidemic also ended quickly. In many accounts, there were as many as 26 comet-like bod- ies blazing in the sky previously to the outbreaks, as well as other strange sightings: “In Brandenburg (in Germany), there appeared in 1559, horrible men, of whom at first fifteen and then later on, twelve, were seen. The foremost had beside their posteriors little heads, the others fearful faces and long scythes, with which they cut the oats, so that the swish could be heard at a great distance, but the oats remained standing. When a quantity of people came running out to see them, they went on with their mowing.” (p. 185) “’,.there appeared so many black riders that the opinion was prevalent that the Turks were making a raid, but who rapidly disappeared again, and thereupon a raging plague broke out in the neighborhood. (p. 185) When the cholera broke out on Her Majesty’s ship Britannia in the Black Sea in 1854, several of the officers and men asserted positively that, immediately prior to the outbreak, a curious mist swept up from the sea and passed over the ship. The mist had barely cleared the vessel when the first case of dis- ease was announced. (p. 190) A huge “blazing star” was seen in the sky over England, even by Charles I, before the plague of England. Comment It is interesting to compare this attitude to that of the later Plantagenet demigod, Richard II of England, who in the fourteenth century brutally suppressed the Peasant’s Revolt, and said to the survivors of his plague wrecked country: God omnipotent, is mustering in his clouds on our behalf, armies of pestilence and they shall strike your children yet unborn and unbegot, that lift your vassal hands against my head and threat the glory of my precious crown. 230 Appendix B: Book Abstracts The “Black Death” Black Riders There were also frequent reports of loud noises in the sky, or rumblings. Atlantis, Alien Visitation, and Genetic Manipulation