The plague doctor costume looks like a cross between a steampunk crow and the Grim Reaper, and has come to represent both the terrors of the Black Death and the foreignness of medieval medicine.

The creepy crow-faced plague doctors used brooms to sweep away viruses in the streets of the French Quarter on Thursday night, making way for the Joan of Arc parade. “Be ...

A SCOTS ‘plague doctor’ has been revealed as an innocent GRAN wearing a long black coat. Jean Matheson, 64, was left baffled after footage of her walking the streets in Newton Stewart, … ...

ANOTHER ‘plague doctor’ has been spotted in Scotland, as the creepy craze continues to sweep the nation. An unidentified person was seen walking the streets of Newton Stewart, Dumfriess… ...

Cloaked in black and wearing the eerie mask of a hawk, the mysterious Plague Doctor roams 17th century Europe in an attempt to ease the suffering of those who fall victim to the Black Death.

Children have been left terrified by a 'plague doctor' roaming the streets in Dumfries after the person behind the mask was spotted near a school and purposely frightened two children. Officers ...