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The Costume of Fear: The Plague Doctor Year: 1656. Rome and Perugia are ravaged by yet another deadly outbreak of the plague. To face the contagion, doctors appear in what is now one of the most iconic and eerie outfits in medical history. The beak, stuffed with aromatic herbs and spices, was meant to purify the “poisoned” air. The waxed coat and gloves were designed to prevent skin contact. The glass eyepieces shielded the eyes, while the cane allowed examination of patients from a distance. Printed by Sebastiano Zecchini, this image offers a rare glimpse into how medicine, fear, and superstition collided in the early modern world. In a time when miasmas, bad air, were believed to spread disease, this strange figure became the very symbol of the plague: ominous, ghostly, yet essential.

 

 

  The  Pseudomonarchia  predates, and differs somewhat from,  Ars Goetia . The  Pseudomonarchia  lists sixty-nine demons (in contrast to the later seventy-two), and their sequence varies, along with some of their characteristics. The demon Pruflas appears only in  Pseudomonarchia , and  Pseudomonarchia  does not attribute any  sigils  to the demons. Weyer referred to his source manuscript as  Liber officiorum spirituum, seu Liber dictus Empto. Salomonis, de principibus et regibus daemoniorum.  ( Book of the offices of spirits, or the book called 'Empto'. Solomon, concerning the princes and kings of demons. ) This work is likely related to a very similar 1583 manuscript titled  The Office of Spirits , both of which appear ultimately be an elaboration on a fifteenth-century manuscript titled  Le  Livre des Esperitz  (of which 30 of its 47 spirits are nearly identical to spirits in the  Ars Goeti...