Scotland Correspondent Issue 41

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Supernatural - Strange Tales from Scotland’s Thin Places with... Thomas MacCalman Morton

Strange tales from Scotland’s thin places with...Thomas MacCalman Morton

Photo by The Real Mary King’s Close Deep in the streets below the city of Edinburgh

George Rae, the Edinburgh plague doctor who still

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seeks recompense

andemic. Epidemic. These are words calculated to spread fear and dismay, as well as very real illness

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and death. And outbreaks of virulent disease are nothing new. Indeed, compared to Pneumonic and Bubonic plague, both of

which wreaked havoc across the pre-antibiotic world, more modern illnesses palled. Until Corona came calling.


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