A person spotted around Toronto wearing black with a beak-shaped mask, pocket watch and hat has some very good reasons for wearing the odd outfit. A person dressed as a plague doctor drew the ...

Avoid him like the plague ... as a 17th-century plague doctor, according to a report. The menacing oddball — who sports a black cloak, hat and beak-like mask — has been spotted several ...

But what’s the reality behind the iconic mask? Not Just Any Doctor Plague doctors were government contractors. When the plague struck a European town, the local government hired a doctor ...

One of the most distinctive masks worn during the Carnival of Venice is “Il Medico della Peste,” or “The Plague Doctor.” But the distinctive bone-white mask and black clothing was actually ...

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.

(Today, you might recognize it from the “plague doctor” costumes worn during the Carnival of Venice, as it’s associated with Il Medico della Peste, the famous commedia dell’arte character.) ...

School officials called the police when a teenager showed up at a school in Malden in a plague doctor costume Tuesday morning. In an email to families, Forestdale School officials called the ...

WEST CHESTER, Ohio — West Chester police are trying to find a man they say committed a robbery while wearing a large "plague doctor mask." It happened on September 22 around 6:45 p.m. behind the ...