Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

The bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death, was a particularly devastating sickness

in the 1300s that caused fevers, seizures, gangrene, and eventually death.

When the plague tore through Europe, it killed millions across multiple countries as people

fled from one contaminated area to another, looking for safety.

While the epidemic only lasted four years, it was known to crop up again in various cities

later on.

London, Vienna, Marseille, Russia all saw recurrences of the disease throughout the 16 and

1700s.

It was during a particularly bad outbreak in 1633, when the residents of a small village

in Bavaria were struggling.

The plague had been ravaging the neighboring area, and the villagers of Oberum or Gu,

were terrified of it spreading to their small town, so they turned to the only one they

could think of for help.

God.

They prayed long and hard for salvation, and in the process, they made a kind of deal with

God.

If he would spare them from the bubonic plague that had wiped out the nearby towns, they

would put on a play about the life and death of Jesus every ten years as a way of saying

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