Four Thieves' Vinegar
A recipe for powerful Hoodoo work, this medicinal remedy has four thousand variations. It was allegedly developed during the second wave of the Plague in Europe. I got curious about its origins and so I started looking backwards into the records of the Plague. Here's what I discovered and the opinions that I generated. Since there was no pharmaceutical industry as it exists now, nature was the people’s pharmacy throughout the middle ages. Plants were adopted into in use by the medical community, having borrowed such knowledge from wise pagan men and women healers. During the second wave of the Plague in Europe , four individuals allegedly made it their business to rob the homes and very bodies of those who had died of the Plague, but did not contract the infection themselves. When questioned by the courts upon their capture, they revealed that they crafted a medicinal vinegar, which they regularly drank and wore on their clothes to protect them. To allay a sentence of exec...