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Great Moments in Loopholes, 1690s.

  • blackjax23
  • Jan 8
  • 1 min read

Lüchow-Dannenberg, Hanoverian Wendland, Hannoversches Wendland, Wendland, Lower Saxony, Germany. After Johann Parum Schultze (1677 - 1740) gives a ride to the human embodiment of the plague, and in gratitude it tells him to keep him safe from it that he's to take his pot hook, run around the outside of his home naked, then bury the hook in his doorway, but instead he runs around his village naked and buries it before the bridge leading into it, thus saving everyone there.

 
 
 

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