• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    That’s what I heard, that the pocket full of posies was because of the awful smell of the plague, and the ashes part is because they burned the bodies of the dead. This is the first I’ve heard that it pre-dates that.