Why was the bubinic plague given the name black death.?

Question

how is this name both a physical and psychological characteristic of the plague

Answer 1

Ring around the Rosie pocket full of poise ashes ashes they all fall down

It is believed by many but not seen as fact by all to be about the Black plague.

Every child has happily joined hands with friends and recited the familiar nursery rhyme, "Ring around a Rosie, a pocket full of posies. Ashes, ashes, we all fall down." Few people realize to what this seemingly happy little nursery rhyme actually refers.
This nursery rhyme began about 1347 and derives from the not-so-delightful Black Plague, which killed over twenty-five million people in the fourteenth century. The "ring around a Rosie" refers to the round, red rash that is the first symptom of the disease. The practice of carrying flowers and placing them around the infected person for protection is described in the phrase, "a pocket full of posies." "Ashes" is a corruption or imitation of the sneezing sounds made by the infected person. Finally, "we all fall down" describes the many dead resulting from the disease.

Answer 2

The bubonic plague was an infection passed by the fleas from rats to the human population. It was known as bubonic because of the raised puss filled sores which covered the body. It subsequently was known as the balck death as hemoraging beneath the skin produced a dark tinge. There was also the pneumonic plague to contend with.

Answer 3

"The initial fourteenth-century European event was called the "Great Mortality" by contemporary writers and, with later outbreaks, became known as the "Black Death" because of a striking symptom of the disease, called acral necrosis, in which sufferers' skin would blacken due to subdermal haemorrhages. Historical records have convinced most scientists that the Black Death was an outbreak of bubonic plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and spread by fleas with the help of animals like the black rat (Rattus rattus), but there are some scientists who question this."

Answer 4

The patient showed dark areas on the body. Besides, it killed so fast, so many people, and there was no cure, that calling it black meant something deadly