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Link's face in the last panel is great!
This reminds me of when I was little and I'd wake up before Mom and Dad. You instinctively feel something has gone terribly wrong!
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I remember that! It just was so weird and wrong.
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Heehee! Nope, he just never bothered to learn about how germs work in regards to corpses. But he knows that there's something wrong with them...so he just attributed it to bad luck/curses. That's his story, and he's stickin' to it!
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I wonder if that was a common thought about corpses in the Middle Ages...?
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I'm not sure; I do know that their knowledge of germs/disease/etc. was slightly more advanced than what is the common assumption (for some reason, people always assume the very worst of the Middle Ages). Given the fact that they took some precautions to avoid spreading the Black Death via physical contact/breathing in, there is some sign that they knew that disease could spread via touch/airborne germs.
But I'd have to research it before I could say for sure. It's likely people were more superstitious about it in remote/rural areas with little/no education available, while there was probably a more practical approach in areas with education/universities (the oldest universities, such as Oxford, were founded and active during the Middle Ages) and places that had begun to adhere to the scientific method (proposed popularly by the Franciscan Roger Bacon in the 1200s).
So again...I'd have to do a lot of research to be certain
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The one thing I do know for certain is at some point in history, they began thinking that taking baths was a way to open yourself up to the spread of disease due to your pores opening after a bath.
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I think you're right, though that might have been more of a regional thing.
I think that was the common idea around the 800-1000s in most of Europe, because when central/southern Europe began to interact more with Vikings, the people of Europe were shocked at how often the Vikings bathed. Like you said, they considered it unhealthy.
The history of how people viewed germs/disease/etc. really is very interesting! I wonder how it varies worldwide, like in Russia/India/South America/Southeast Asian Islands/etc.
If I was a student in the history of medicine, I'd totally write a thesis on this sort of thing
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Actually, thoughts on bathing lasted well into the 1800's. The royals in the Palace of Versailles in France, for example, were not exactly the cleanest bunch and only bathed by the month, feeling that the dirt held out demonic or Satanic possession. Unlike the Parisian peasantry, the royals could afford the expensive perfumes, colognes, and powders to mask their...scent. Also, I found out that the Palace did not have any bathrooms, just chamber pots. So if someone, like say a noblewoman, were to be walking through a hall, instead of hiking her skirt to use the chamber pot in a provided room, she would squat in a hallway and go right there.
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Ahh that's so crazy! So awkward!
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I watched this Britcom called "Let Them Eat Cake" with Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders (HILARIOUS show if you can find it on Youtube, give a few episodes a view.) and at one point, they covered the whole hallways are bathrooms thing. I read up on it on a website I found.
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Ironic considering at one point he probably had to touch the corpse of one of the monsters he's killed.
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In his mind, monster corpses are like animal corpses. They're not people corpses, so he's curse-free!
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