Investigation showed that these were due to people who had come back from quarantine and, driven mad by grief and misfortune, set light to their houses under the illusion that this would kill the plague.
Ikerketak egin ondoren, berrogeialditik etorritako jendea omen zela zioten, zeintzuk dohakabetasun eta proguaz zoraturik, su ematen omen zieten beren etxeei, horrela izurritea akabatuko zutelakoaren ustetan.