Are houses in Amsterdam painted black to show where someone lived with the plague?

Are houses in Amsterdam painted black to show where someone lived with the plague?

I’m back with debunking fun but non-factual stories. The myth goes that people with the plague lived in houses painted black, but in reality, there was a completely different way to determine whether someone in their household had the plague.  Amsterdammers (people from Amsterdam) had to tie a bunch of straw with three strings around […]