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The Black Death comes; art by Theodor Kittelsen The plague (which arrived in Norway in September of 1349)  was often personified as an old, wandering hag with a broom and a rake.  She would wander the countryside and pass through villages; if she swept the place with her broom, it meant everyone there would die, but if she only used her rake, it meant that some of the people there would live.  

The Black Death comes; art by Theodor Kittelsen

The plague (which arrived in Norway in September of 1349)  was often personified as an old, wandering hag with a broom and a rake.  She would wander the countryside and pass through villages; if she swept the place with her broom, it meant everyone there would die, but if she only used her rake, it meant that some of the people there would live.  

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