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"... the depression and the fear of a terrible affliction that come up as a criminal court of the city were almost universally ... The fear of the people was still conspicuous in the mistaken belief of time promoted who, for reasons which I have no explanation, the people, I believe more than ever before and ever after, went under the spell of prophecies, astrological horoscopes, dream interpretations and Altweibergeschichen. Whether this disastrous state of mind, initially some of the nonsense people who earned that money was generated, (ie, they gave predictions and forecasts in press), I do not know, but it is certain that the books gave off an enormous horror ... "
Daniel Defoe, "The Plague of London", 1722
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