This week we're traveling back to 1830s Germany (and Transylvania) with Nosferatu! Join us as we learn about the folklore of garlic, exhuming suspected vampires, plague ships, and more!
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Ainsley Hawthorne, "Plague Upon the Waters: How a Disease-Ridden Steamboat Spread Yellow Fever," CBC, available at https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/apocalypse-then-yellow-fever-1.5936980
Philippa Helliwell, "Plague Ahoy! Maritime Quarantine in the 18th Century," National Archives, available at https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/plague-ahoy-maritime-quarantine-in-the-18th-century/
