Among Us Character Black With Plague Mask. All the outfits in Among Us can be found below. The costume is also associated with a commedia dellarte character called Il Medico della Peste lit.
By Pauli Poisuo March 3 2020 1029 am EDT. 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. Plague doctors wore a mask with a bird-like beak to protect them from being infected by the disease which they believed was airborne.
The biosuit helmets used by the Engineers have this appearance.
Plague doctors kept sweet-smelling herbs in the beak of their masksWikimedia Commons. The eccentric headpiece served as a kind of primitive gas mask for medical practitioners in 17th-century Europe designed to protect its wearer from the foul odours associated with the plague. 44 out of 5 stars 572. With a long cloak and grotesque bird-like mask the European plague doctor was a disconcerting sight.
