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- I know who did it!
- We've been poisoned!
- What's going on?
- Oh No!
- I have a cure!
- The Milan Poisoning Scare stared on the night of May 17th, 1629 because citizens of Milan, Italy had reported seeing people putting "poison" in one of the Cathedral partitions. The health officials found no signs of poisoning.
- Cardinal Richelieu
- General Wallenstein
- The following morning, the citizens of Milan woke up to daubs on their doors. Health officials found nothing harmful in them and claimed that they were a practical joke, but the rumors had already been spread and panic was beginning.
- One innocent citizen that was accused of poisoning was Gian Giacomo Mora, who was a pharmacist that was tortured and killed due to being found with unknown substances. He claimed to have found a cure for the "plague," and when the close-contact (due to everyone purchasing the cure) led to more deaths, he was blamed. Mora ended up confessing to working with the Devil and accused others of doing the same.
- Many other innocent people were accused, even high profile people such as Cardinal Richelieu of France and General Wallenstein. Although the citizens could not get to them, they could get to people in their city like an 80 year old man that was ambushed after brushing off a bench before sitting. Which led to him being killed while they dragged him to the court.
- When people were accused they were arrested and tortured. The hysteria in Milan got so bad that people were making false confessions just so they could be done with the torture. During this torturing they would say the names of more innocent people and keep the cycle of accusations going, but many were still executed.
- I conspired with the devil! I poisoned people , but so did she- and so did he!
- The way that health officials in the city finally put most of the "poisoning" and reluctancy to believe in the plague idea down was through funerals. When a family died on the day of the Pentecost festival, the officials decided to march their bodies through in open caskets to make the townspeople see what the illness had done to their bodies. Afterwards, the plague was believed in more firmly, and poisoning rumors were put to bed.
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