Others caught this malicious disease simply through breathing near a person who was already infected. This increase of spread and lack of comprehension made the hope of cure to hide itself. Churches and charities was a target to the spread mainly because they provided help and care to the needed, however this idea only infected the nuns which took the role of nurses. People were desperate for a sign of a cure since this time for the Europeans felt endless, the death of loved ones left people wretched and mournful. “Karin Lehnardt (41 Devastating Facts about the Black …show more content…
Jews were automatically a target for the blame, always being unfairly accused. The reason why Europeans accused just the jews was because they believed they wanted to destroy christianity even though the plague affected anybody not just christians. These jews were viciously persecuted to the point that they actually began to lie and confessed that they had been poisoning the drinkable water and food sources. When the jews falsely made their confessions they weren’t as badly killed they were just punished. “Benedictow (The Greatest Catastrophe