How This Pope Accidentally Killed Half of Europe #History #Mystery #DarkAges

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-19

[00:00:00]1233, Pope Gregory the 9th declares a new [music] enemy of the church, the black cat. Word spreads like wildfire.

[00:00:08]Felines are [music] branded as symbols of the devil himself. Across Europe, the hunt [music] begins. Thousands of cats are purged from the streets.

[00:00:17]But with the [music] cats gone, a much smaller, deadlier enemy begins to multiply.

[00:00:23]The rats [music] brought the fleas. The fleas brought the great plague. Europe was defenseless. [music] 1/3 of the continent perished because of a war on a silent [music] protector. A strange lesson from history.

[00:00:36]Sometimes our fears create our greatest disasters.