Guests from The Past - A Norwegian painter and a Greek Ethnologist

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How the art of Theodor Kittelsen goes hand-in-hand with the writtings Nikolaos Politis.

"Plague is a blind woman, that goes around the country, from house to house, and she kills everyone touched by her.
But because she goes with searching, wall to wall, she can`t reach those who stand aside and stay protected in the middle inside of their homes."

"Plague is woman dressed in black. She goes at homes during the night and gives her poisonous breath. Some people say that the houses she entered in are marked, and this mark can`t be removed by anyone."

NIKOLAOS G. POLITIS Traditions (1904)

NOTES:

 The Pics : Pesta - The personification of Black Death done by Norwegian artist Theofor Kittelsen in a series named Svartedauen

Nikolaos G Politis : Master of Hellenic ethnology and folkore. A bio of him HERE