At number 10 fashion back in the Dark Ages fashion and high quality clothing were a symbol of status in society for the elite it was their way of displaying their wealth and high status over the poor population because this meant so much to them obviously they had to go
Above and beyond with their looks and oh boy oh boy did they take things to a whole new level everything was super exaggerated for women they just wore the finest dresses but for men that’s where things got spicy male fashion was something they would often wear dangerously short tunics with tights and
Belts to really snatch their waist followed by the con piece to really accentuate things down under you know but their shoes don’t even get me started on their shoes they wore some seriously pointy shoes and to them the longer and pointier the better their elf looking kicks were really what screamed
I’m better than you to the rest of the public some shoes were so long that they had to be reinforced with whalebone to keep their shape these people looked pretty ridiculous at least to our modern standards but back then wearing pointy shoes and tunics with the Cod piece was
Like the equivalent to wearing a full Gucci fit and number nine helmeted chickens in the Dark Ages peasants didn’t really get the best food the good stuff was more so saved for the members of the elite and these people ate some good stuff I mean to us it’s weird but
To them it was Finger Licking Good speaking of finger looking good though let me tell you about one of their weirdest Foods helmeted Chicken no it wasn’t a special chicken that was prepared with special ingredients or whatever it was literally what the name is a helmeted chicken AKA a chicken with
A helmet on I know weird right this was a theatrical dish to say the least it featured a regular old cooked chicken that was stitched to a pig like he was riding on its back and to add a special little something something the cooks would fashion a tiny helmet to make it
Look like a guard or Knight for whatever Lord or King that they were serving this bizarre dish to this was a fan favorite because of how extravagant it was but that Trend sort of lived and died in the Dark Ages because you can’t catch any chef doing something like that these
Days Gordon Ramsey would have a fit over this one before I carry on telling you guys about all of the weird and crazy things that people did back in the Dark Ages I would first like to ask you guys to leave a like on this video if you’re
Enjoying it so far and also consider subscribing as well to see more videos like this one at number eight beautiful death death was kind of a big deal in the Dark Ages sounds weird but you also have to take into account the fact that the average life expectancy was only
About 30 years old so really you didn’t have long also people back them were faced with some pretty harsh times like famine cold and of course the Black Death because they had to face death so early on and so often the so-called art of dying came to be the whole premise
Behind the art of dying revolved around dying a good Christian death according to those who lived in the Dark Ages your death had to be planned and peaceful when someone was on their deathbed they would concern themselves with accepting their fate without quote despair disbelief impatience Pride or avarice
End quote this art of dying thing was very popular amongst priests and this actually led to a lot of painters at the time depicting people in holy professions as submissive to death and what was to come for them at number Seven Feast of fools one of the more
Lively aspects of the Dark Ages was the many festivals and holidays that were celebrated though most of the population worked grueling hours for days on end they often got breaks to hold celebrations most holidays and celebrations that were held were religious but others were just silly and
Were designed for people to have fun like the Feast of fools for example the Feast of fools was held in early January and was inspired by the Pagan Festival of saturnalia this was a pretty interesting Festival because it involved swapping the highest respected officials with serving maids and they became
Masters and were crowned Kings of misrule this Festival first started as something confined to the church but but soon it became a bigger affair with parades comic performances music costumes and even drag these people really liked their festivals another pretty weird Festival that they held was
The Festival of the ass where a young girl carrying a child would ride on the back of a donkey into a church and during the service instead of saying amen they would say heha like a donkey I know bizarre right at number six soccer these days people regard soccer or
Football as a modern European Sport and though is popular in these modern times it turns out that the sport has been around a lot longer than you might think soccer was first played back in the Dark Ages however it is very different from the soccer that we know today back then
The sport didn’t even really have a name and there were no rules either the only thing that people followed when playing the game was the objective of winning back then you were allowed to win by any means necessary besides deliberately offing people of course back then soccer
Became known as a pretty brutal SP sport it was violent chaotic bloody and sometimes even deadly it involved an infinite amount of players so it was really a free-for-all on the playing field sport was so intense that in 1314 King Edward II banned the game decree quote on pain of imprisonment such games
To be used in the cities in future end quote glad things have changed since then because FIFA would be really intense if it hadn’t on number five weddings marriage and weddings back in the Dark Ages were very different than than they are today back then because the average life expectancy was so low
People started getting married and having kids very young usually girls would be married off as soon as they hit puberty around the age of 12 and these marriages were not for love arranged marriages were the norm back then because it was mostly used to join families for status or for alliances
Marriage ceremonies were also very different back then because marriages just weren’t as big of a deal back then as they are today it didn’t matter where you got married or how soon most people didn’t need permission to get married so they could hold the ceremony anywhere marriage ceremonies were held in places
Like pubs in the middle of the street or even in bed because of this it made it really hard to know who was really married and to whom until the 12th century when it was declared a holy sacrament that must be observed by God to make things even weirder the
Consummation of marriage was also pretty odd because it wasn’t a private Affair the act of beding wasn’t seen as an intimate moment between the couple but rather an investment in the union so it was observed by Witnesses I am certainly glad things have changed at number four
Jesters you would think that being a court jester in the Dark Ages would have been a pretty bleak job but you would actually be wrong I mean yeah they looked funny with their outfits and hats modeled after the ears of a donkey but Jesters actually held a lot of power in
Court making their job a pretty good one compared to other common folk the core Jester’s job was to make people laugh by doing tricks stunts and telling jokes sometimes the jester would poke fun at the king or Lord that they served or would make comments about a Kingdom’s
Politics and for a lot of people saying these types of things would give them a one-way ticket to The Gallows but not the jester because of their profession by Royal Decree anything that they said was taken as a justest or a joke so no one could get mad or offended at what
The jester said or comments on basically the jester was the one person in the court who was immune from medieval cancel culture they could offend anyone they wanted to and no one could stop them I number three unicorns and Jesus the thing about the Dark Ages is that it
Was full of superstition and mythology within this period of time there was a lot of confusion when it came to religion as paganism and the rise of Christianity were both hot topics many times superstitions and mythology from paganism made its way into the religious beliefs of Christians and things were
Known to get a little weird take for example the unicorn and how it was incorporated into the Christian beliefs of the Dark Ages It is believed that a mistranslation of what is thought to have been an ox is what brought unicorns into Christianity because of this mistranslation the Bible likened Jesus
To a unicorn since it was in religious text people in the Dark Ages sort of just ran with it and so they started incorporating the Unicorn into Many religious artworks to further this whole unicorn thing they made up a Superstition that only innocent maidens were allowed to touch unicorns and they
Even used the Unicorn to come up with a rather uncomfortable allegory of Christ entering Mary’s womb this unicorn thing was also fueled by the Vikings at one point as during the Medieval Age Vikings were known to con people into buying narwhal tusks marketed as real unicorn horns I number two Divorce by combat
Back in the Dark Ages if you wanted a divorce you had to be willing to fight for it literally in medieval Germany couples would take to the ring to settle their disputes and it was quite The Showdown trial by combat was the common way of settling arguments back then but
When a husband and wife were fighting things were a little more interesting than just having an allout brawl during these Divorce by combat proceedings the husband had to stand in a hole with his hands behind his back while the wife ran around in a circle with a bag full of
Rocks I don’t really see how this settled anything but who might have questioned the methods of the Dark Ages and finally at number one animal Court I think that one of the weirdest things about life in the Middle Ages was their legal cases as I just told you their
Divorce proceedings were literally a trial by combat they also found bizarre ways of trying someone if they were accused of Witchcraft as well and that was pretty dark but the strangest Court battles involved animals yes animals were sometimes put on trial back in the Dark Ages all animals from livestock to
Pets and even insects were not safe from the law and they would be put on trial if they were suspected of breaking the law according to records from the Dark Ages at least 85 animals were put on trial for a number of reasons pigs were
Were the ones who were put on trial most often for chewing off people’s body parts and even eating children in 1474 a rooster was put on trial and found guilty of the unnatural crime of laying an egg and even unwanted rats were put on trial and received strongly worded
Letters demanding that they leave the premises the most bizarre case though involved a donkey who went through a legal trial and actually won this donkey became the victim of unwanted advances but was deemed innocent because someone declared her to be quot virtuous and well- behaved animal end quote these
People had way too much time on their hands at number 10 shaming parades if you’ve ever watched Game of Thrones then you might be familiar with that scene where cersi gets paraded through the streets of Kings Landing while naked while someone behind her rang a bell chanting shame ding ding ding shame you
Know what I mean it’s kind of a meme but it’s also based on a real medieval tradition called shaming parades for years people have loved shaming others I think it’s it’s just human nature at this point and obviously back then they didn’t have any social media to use as
Their preferred method of ripping on someone so they got creative very creative depending on what the accused did their punishment would vary but the one thing that stayed constant was them being paraded through the streets for everyone to watch specific punishments were given for specific crimes for
Example if a Tavern owner served bad beer then they would be paraded through the street and forced to drink their bad beer if they were caught stealing a pig then they would would walk through the streets with a dead pig around their neck and a crown made of pig’s feet how
Regal people would throw things like glass rocks and even dead cats at whoever was being paraded and it was quite the spectacle now would you rather experience this or being cancelled on social media let me know on number nine blood letting back in the Dark Ages medicine just wasn’t the greatest
Clearly I mean they had a plague that wiped out 50% of the population in Europe even their quote unquote doctors were overlapping jobs Barbers were cutting hair obviously but they were also setting broken bones and bandaging wounds so I’m not really sure I would trust that but back then it was a case
Of you get what you get so I don’t think people were really complaining too much about their Barber Joey down the street giving them a cast you know but other than the practice of patching wounds and whatnot they were also practicing bloodletting back then and it was a
Little much blood letting was the practice of withdrawing blood in order to cure or prevent illnesses or diseases so doctors would use things like leeches to suck out the blood of their patients but they also use scarification methods to scrape away the skin to drain the blood and others use lancets to slice
Open veins sometimes including the jugular vein I’m so glad that we do not do this anymore because frankly I would like my blood to stay inside my body thank you now before we carry on talking about just how weird things were back in the Dark Ages why not leave a like on
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Sangria and take a walk around the neighborhood in the middle of the afternoon not saying I’ve ever done that it’s usually a once in a blue moon type of deal but for people in the Dark Ages day drinking was an everyday Affair now people back then weren’t necessarily
Drinking at all hours of the day just to get plastered and stay plastered it was actually for health reasons you see people try to avoid drinking the water at all costs over fears of illness because the water just wasn’t clean and wasn’t safe to drink so they turned to
The next closest thing that they could drink and that just so happened to be alcohol back then it was common to drink large amounts of beer cider or wine and it was common to be drunk all of the time thank God we can safely drink water now because I don’t think anyone could
Handle the hangover that came with all that heavy drinking at number seven no pleasure the Dark Ages were heavily immersed in religion in medal Europe they took Christianity very seriously and people followed the church very closely the mission of people back then was to live a good Christian life and to
Not commit any sins but one of those sins was a little unfortunate when you look back on it back then any sexual acts that were meant for pleasure and not for procreation was considered a sin that meant that sexy time was reserved for furthering the population and that’s
It and if you did anything recreational you would be getting a one-way ticket to Hell along those same lines also believed that female domination was also a sin and so the woman could not get on top or again straight to hell with her one Saint Francesca Romana was so afraid
Of experiencing pleasure when she slpt with her husband that she literally burned her lady bits with hot fat so that it would make the experience as miserable as possible that sounds horrible on number six Cemetery fun what types of things do you guys like to do
For fun do you play video games or read or maybe you watch Netflix or YouTube H and where do you like to go for fun maybe the mall or to your friend’s house well if you lived in the dark ages in Europe you would go to the place that
Everyone goes for fun the cemetery yep you’re going to go Kiki it up with the corpses and unfortunately they’re not corpse husband although corpse if you’re watching hit me up thank you anyways back in the Dark Ages the cemetery was the place to be it was considered to be
The Social Hub of the community back then people held theater performances elections trials and even set up businesses in the cemetery because the graveyard shops were exempt from taxes there was quite a lot going on in the cemetery but it was almost the equivalent of going to the mall but I
Want you guys to tell me if you would ever be like the people in the Dark Ages and just go to the cemetery for fun I number five an eye for an eye when it came to the legal process in medieval Europe things weren’t always fair I mean
They tried women for being witches and prosecuted animals for various crimes their punishments were sometimes Swift and just and and other times they weren’t people back then believed that when found guilty of a crime there were worse punishments than losing a hand or something as I mentioned a little
Earlier they were quite fond of public humiliation but they also believed in issuing fines and even kicking someone out of the community Al together if someone was found guilty of a violent crime then they would be subjected to punishment that would cause them pain as
Well but not to teach them a lesson but rather to brandish them so that they would be recognized as a person in the community who did that one thing to that one person you know since these people were very religious they also had to make up with God for whatever crime they
Committed as well so usually that would involve fasting and then it would be up to Sky Daddy to determine if further punishment was needed on number four the king’s evil being a king or queen in the Dark Ages might seem like a pretty cool job but I don’t really think it was with
The rivalries these people had they were at risk of being assassinated in one way or another they had to worry about their bloodlines and of course the thing that everyone had to deal with illness some Kings to help out their people were tasked with healing an illness called
The King’s evil and you’re probably wondering well these Kings weren’t doctors how did they cure illness and to that I say well they touched it of course this whole thing started in the 11th century when Edward the Confessor became known for touching a person suffering from scrofula AKA The King’s
Evil and they cured them people thought that this was a miracle and so for hundreds of years after that English and French monar s were tasked with touching the sick to cure them of this illness because the monarchs were believed to be an incarnation of the Divine at number three
Toothworks but you could also get the worst diagnosis your dentist could ever give you and that was a diagnosis of an infection of tooth worms they believed that people could be infected with tooth worms that caused a tooth to Decay and that pits and holes in the tooth were
Home to a worm that looked like a tiny eel what’s worse in the diagnosis however is the removal process they didn’t want to pull out the tooth that was supposedly infected with these tiny worms so instead they used a more holistic approach a method that they
Would use to rid the worm would be to take a candle made out of sheep’s fat and various seeds and then they would hold it as close the tooth as possible so that the worm would run from the Heat and fall into a little dish of water that was being held beneath the
Patient’s mouth that sounds like a horrible trip to the dentist that’s for sure at number two judging tears in modern times somehow we’ve come up with this idea that only girls are allowed to cry I think that’s pretty BS and it’s healthy for everyone to express their emotions and funnily enough they believe
The same thing back in the Dark Ages back then everyone was expected to cry freely but the strange part of all this is the fact fact that people judged how others cried their tears would be judged on quantity duration of crying and frequency as well they took their tears
Pretty seriously obviously when someone was crying because of some kind of loss it was pretty much nothing but if they saw someone else crying for a different or unexplained reason this was believed to have been a different kind of Tears called The Gift of Tears they believed
That this was a sign that someone was thinking of Jesus and his suffering and that they were so overcome with emotion that they were moved to tears and this was also considered a gift from God as long as someone’s crying wasn’t too loud they didn’t cry too much and it didn’t
Disturb anyone especially during a church service they were just considered particularly devout and finally at number one PE readings this Dark Age tradition is probably one of the strangest ones I have ever heard and you might come to think the same thing in medieval England people were known to
Get diagnosed based on their PE back then they believed that the consistency color and taste of someone’s pee could diagnose someone’s ailments they took this method of diagnosis so seriously that they published books for the wealthy so that they could do the practice at home and these books included illustrations and color charts
So that they could judge their own pee according to their text if your pee was white then it was the ideal color and that meant everything was working properly if it was wine colored like blue or black then that meant that something was very wrong and if it was
Green then you were basically on your last leg and you should probably get your will in order now I’m not sure how accurate these readings actually were since medicine was basically non-existent back then but they tried their best with what they had I guess however I’m pretty sure you don’t need a
Book to tell you that your wine colored pee is a Bad Thing number 10 Treaty of verun the Treaty of Verdun or also known as TR de ver was a contract agreed on in August 843 in which divided the Frankish empire into three kingdoms among the surviving sons of the emperor Louis the
The firstborn son and heir of Charlamagne long story short all the grandsons were all at civil war with each other about who was getting what what did Grant promise the treaty followed shortly after almost 3 years of Wars between the brothers it was the first in a series of partitions
Contributing to the dissolution of Charlemagne’s empire and it is seen as a blueprint in which modern societies are based off of basically the brothers all had to split what their grandfather had de Creed his own into Land Lo there the first coolest name charlamagne’s eldest son received Francia Media or the middle
Frankish Kingdom Louis II received Francia orientalis or the East franked Kingdom and Charles II received Francia entalis or the West Frankish Kingdom you and I both know the youngest got the most come on I’m just going to say it right out Everyone likes to talk about
The eldest son this and the eldest son that but we all know the baby gets whatever they want whenever they want don’t they huh I’m looking at you Taylor come here man it’s true man the baby gets everything middle child it’s got didn’t even exist growing up didn’t hear
From him number nine underground Castle big ched and I are currently replaying okarina of time so in honor of Hyrule I got include this medieval castle it was once a residence during the reign of King Henry III this Castle was actually discovered recently underneath a prison
Yard back in 2015 old prison Castle we love those sha Shank Redemption 2 Medieval Edition super recent discovery archaeologists discovered walls of a castle underneath the basketball court in Southwest England at a former prison yeah dudes were shooting threes over top of kingdom and they had no idea how
Amazing is that this was the same castle that played part in the mid 1100s during England’s Civil War The Castle actually fell later in the 1400s and the prison was built on the grounds later in the 1700s until it closed its Gates forever in 2013 and then we were shooting threes
And and we discovered it of course if I was a ghost haunting these grounds I would make every shot Miss easily I would just float near the net tap the ball away like nice try back to prison number eight stone masonry so we all all know about who wrote what and who
Translated what to what text and which language while writing what play which was based on who but who built all this stuff when we think of the Dark Ages we can’t forget the megalithic Leviathan Stones carved and molded together to create the enormous Gothic castles and Cathedrals that are still standing to
This day how did people do it back then well masons in medieval England were responsible for building Masons were highly skilled Craftsmen and their trade was primarily used in the building of castles churches and Cathedrals there were three main classes of stonemasons there was The Apprentice the journeyman
And the Master Mason so what would a medieval construction site exactly look like well of course there’s the Master Mason he’s usually the head and the overseer of the work and he’s the most skilled of the Tradesmen this is like the head honcho on site we’ve all seen
This guy walking around Sight he’s always angry he’s always yelling hey who’s got the plans you give me those what are these yeah they’re backwards you idiot why would have put the window down there so how did they exactly chisel out all of these castles from one
Giant rock well they didn’t the stone had to be quarried first from Quarrymen these were not Masons their job was to get the stone for the Masons to work on out of the ground local Stone was used first but occasionally Stone could travel vast distances even from other
Countries that’s so I got to drag that Boulder there all the way to Scotland okay some of the most beautiful architecture ever created can be still seen across Europe the amount of time and skill it took for these people to have designed constructed and chiseled such megalithic sights still baffles me
I’d be trying to read the plan still oh I that’s North I got the I got it we’re good number seven apple bobbing in a time where bodies were literally piling up on the side of the road I can’t believe we got apple bobbing out of the whole ordeal that’s crazy it
Seems like ill timing but it is the Dark Ages what can you do apples historically have always been a symbol of importance the Greek Golden Apple started the Trojan War Snow White’s poison apple was a symbol of importance and literature and all that good stuff and growing up
And in the Middle Ages apples were viewed as a symbol of romance and fertility these things have Roots pun intended of course in medieval times bobbing for apples was flirty it was their version of speed dating dare I say what happened was all the leftover apples from the big Harvest were then
Put into a big bucket each apple had a villager’s name on it then maidens would have three chances three chances to grab that apple with their teeth three chances to win a date with the English Tad Hamilton what a weird time can you imagine if this was in Game of Thrones
Reek is just shivering for two seasons bobbing for rams’s Bolton apples we’re like medieval times were dark holy [ __ ] number six the feudal system AKA feudalism was a form of structure system existing in medieval Europe in which people would work and fight for Nobles who gave them protection and land in
Return a social political system which land owners would contractually bind tenants to exchange their goods loyalty and simple space for safety and comfort within the laws of those ruling basically this is like our renters agreement now I’ll give you a place to stay and some heat you give me an
Unfathomable and overpriced amount of Shillings for these extremely low ceilings yeah talk about Crooks man this system stayed in place for more than a thousand years and managed to fizzle its way out of society somewhere in the 15th century not just anybody would ask to be signed to this deal there was structure
And there was order there was a lord aka the land owner AKA your landlord allowing vassals AKA tenants to rent The Land by providing Services especially military services yeah you can St here but once in a while we’re going to need you to dump a bunch of boiling water and
Over that wall is that cool now you’re fine with that the plot of land called a thief was typically worked on by surfs who were laborers who had very few rights and were bound to the land itself these were the lowest class of people and they basically did any and all to
Stay safe on the Lord’s land jobs would include farming jobs would include cleaning and was a minimum of 3 days work to maintain and good standing and remain stationary ah sure there was no Dental or mental health days but come on a 3-day Work Week plant a couple carrots
Here and there it doesn’t seem that bad number five fear the Dead with The Walking Dead on their 47th season I think it’s time to take a peek into zombie history shall we and find out where this Grim idea really started well it’s certainly not a new one I’ll tell
You that for free as far back as the early 1300s residents were buried in the village of Warren Percy where archaeologists discovered them many moons later and they discovered marks on their bones Cuts burn marks you name it apparently this was all done after they had passed away but why scientists
Believe that these injuries inflicted after their untimely death were to prevent them from being reanimated you know coming back to life and haunting Village to keep them in their graves of course unless this dude did something to piss off an entire Village that much they were clearly afraid of this corpse
Coming back to Haun them number four studia generali this period also saw the birth of what we call the modern University this was a culmination of material translated and taught to provide a new infrastructure to Scientific Scholars some of these new universities were registered by the Holy Roman Empire as an institution of
International Excellence giving it the title studium generali or better known as studia generali most to the early studia General were discovered in Italy Spain England and France these places of study were considered the most prestigious places of learning in all of Europe I bet you the school hoodies were
Still so expensive just someone’s old textbook with a mustache drawn on Marcus Aurelius the listed number of Institutions began to grow as a new universities were founded throughout Europe as early as the 13th century Scholars from the studia generali were encouraged to speak and lecture courses at other institutions within Europe to
Share documents and information which led to the current academic culture scen in modern universities today it’s it’s a TED Talk come on there had to be one cool Professor back then like the guy who lets the class teach itself orders pizza has tenure and hates the monarchy number three medieval taverns say you
Want to grab a pint with the local Lads where do you get an IPA in the Dark Ages where do we get a sixpack of Aran ale well this is the Medieval ages so instead of venturing through the woods to hopefully maybe find another town just ask Thy Neighbor that’s right in
The Middle Ages you could Brew your own ale no problem no one’s asking any questions give it a sh sh in the late 12th century baking bread was not freely permitted but making Ale in your basement was I guess that’s great so the hups the noble Lords they wouldn’t care
If you made ale and had a block party but if you made a weak ale or it was improperly measured and then distributed then and only then do you get a fine arrest this man at once number two St Patrick St Patrick was a fifth century Roman British Christian Missionary and
Bishop in Ireland also known as the Apostle of Ireland although he is the first Apostle having lived prior to to the current laws of the Catholic church he is considered a saint in the Catholic church and is regarded as the enlightener of Ireland the dates of Patrick’s life are not certain but there
Is a consensus that he was active in Ireland during the fifth century making his rounds as a missionary speaking the good word of God but let’s get into what everyone talks about with this guy the good stuff like slamming a green Guinness or getting all the snakes out
Of Ireland I mean I love the structure and the faith and stuff but also chasing every snake out of an entire country with a walking stick shoo Sho you oh you bleeding bleeder go go do you know how big Ireland is St Patrick’s Day is on March 17th the supposed date of his
Death in 461 ad it is enjoyed inside and outside Ireland as a religious and cultural holiday and remains a celebration of Ireland itself and finally number one dancing plague a medieval plague but make it groovy yeah let’s start dancing that’s right the dancing plague this was a real danger
Back in 1518 I’ll try not to laugh but it’s I can’t I’ll try this was perhaps one of the weirdest events in history fra traa was the first victim of said plague she was moving her body around frantically so much so that it resembled a dance or something in the middle of
The Holy Roman Empire and as if that wasn’t weird already dozens of others began to join and then more and then more all moving their bodies with a similar wacky frantic twist this was long before Chubby Checker came along so we still have no idea what was going on
Here like we’re out of guesses at this point this twist lasted for months people were dropping on the spot it was scary and confusing in total there were around 400 victims that fell to this mysterious illness that’s a lot of deaths that’s a lot of real deaths this was documented in 16th century
Historical records so I don’t think the story is made up per se no one would make this up it’s terrifying a Catholic saint at the time Saint Vitus was believed to have the power to curse people with said dancing plague but an amazing power also gu starts Moon
Walking away you’re like beat it some suggest this was the Cults others believe they ate toxic Rye who’s to say for sure either way we’re all dancing number 10 the Doomsday Book 1085 the Doomsday Book was created under William the also known as William the Conqueror like you’re already the first man you
Don’t need two names come on this guy basically Drew up a book to document people’s money so that he could tax them oh yeah this is the very first time surveyors Went Town to town and recorded how much money you would owe for simply just doing you men would show up at your
House asking how much money you made and document your spending habits five Shillings on groceries huh okay and five on that phone plan look tax season’s coming up Arthur it’s not looking good man talk about a bunch of crooks huh imagine owing someone money for just trying to make an honest living yeah
Thank God that didn’t catch on right guys oh speaking of I got a phone H&R Block number nine the Crusades a three-part miniseries spanning over 200 years these bloody and ruthless wars were battle between Muslim and Christians for the proprietorship over sacred sites and the land in the East Mediterranean a three-part miniseries
Spanning over 200 years years these bloody and ruthless wars were battle between Muslim and Christians for proprietorship over sacred sites and land in the East Mediterranean Wars that resulted in 6 million deaths the Knights Templar a Brotherhood of highly trained soldiers horseback bashing their way through the East these guys were the
Real deal almost like the Navy Seals of their time we’ve seen these paintings the elite fighting force with a red cross painted on their chests I wonder if they had to do a hell week these soldiers were the most trained and Savage fighters in all the Christian
Armies Richard the leading the third and final Crusade earning him the name Richard the lionart back then the names were always something so aggressive and scary it was never like Richard the clownfish or Henry the pygmy goat n no no we need fear way more fear number
Eight the Magna Carta the years 1215 we need some laws people this document was one of its kind a document setting out the laws and limitations from the common man to King John himself a legal system written down so that there are clear dos and don’ts no free man shall be seized
Imprisoned dispossessed outlawed exiled or ruined in any way nor in any way proceeded against except by the lawful Judgment of his peers and the law of the land did you get all that write that down except women they don’t have laws and they can’t act in plays sometimes
People needed to face the music and even animals huh that’s right animals being tried in a court a lively and popular event trying any lawbreaking animal from goats to pigs to even chickens ladies and gentlemen of the Court did you Mr feathers work Peck the floor yes or no
Objection your honor leading the witness my brain can’t fathom this guys number seven the Battle of banck bur this Infamous battle between Scotland and England was one of the most important battles of the Middle Ages the end of the bloody war for independence basically Scotland was like yeah we’re
Going to go over here and roll our ours the gruesome wooden wars were caused by the English invading Scotland in 1296 a leader slowly Rising the William Wallace the guardian of the King of Scotland himself holds off the English forces and is kned a hero to Scotland unfortunately like every hero
Back then he was also hated he was captured hanged drawn and quartered like why do you have to do all that after he dies like he’s dead not fun the battles between Scotland and England ended in 1314 with Robert the Bruce securing Scotland’s Independence adding like 45
More dialects to the UK Freedom number six the black death ooh talk about a curveball the year’s 1348 people are saying things like don’t let the bed bugs bite clearly not a very clean and safe time the Black Death AKA pestilence AKA The Great mortality or simply known as the plague
Single-handedly the worst pandemic ever recorded in history wiping out somewhere between 70 to 200 million people ooh now I get where bless you comes from someone sneezed back then and everyone’s dead at 14 this is where we see those doctors in the terrifying bird outfits with the
Long noses stuff with garlic and herbs um excuse me yeah he’s not wearing a mask I’m just trying to watch a cat publicly gets skinned yeah 6 fet please some doctors prescribed urinating on a person so that the bad smell would drive out the infection can you imagine just a
Doctor writing you up a script and go ahead and pee on yourself about four to five times a day take with food should be gone early next week and just let me put my mask back on here before you leave there you are the FL started in
Europe in October 1347 when 12 ships from the Black Sea docked at the Sicilian Port of missina most Sailors aboard the ships were already dead but those who were still alive were covered head to toe in Black boils that oozed puss and blood sometimes the Black Death included fever chills vomiting diarrhea
Temporary loss in motor skills and then of course death number five Jonah varc finally a woman in the Middle Ages who to Thun Jonah varc was considered and still is revered the heroine of France for her role in The Siege of Orleans during France’s 100-year war with
England Jonah Arc a peasant with faith on her side had believed that God had chosen her to lead France in Victory against England and had spoken to her since she was young at only age 17 she had stolen men’s armors a white horse and like a valkyrie riding into battle
She had convinced an entire Army that she was appointed by God to win and then did that’s the most bad thing I’ve ever heard in my entire life after such a miraculous Victory her reputation spread among France and upon her capture and death at 19 the maid of Orleans herself
Would forever live on as one of the greatest Saints and symbols of the country of France number four Henry V Another War all these people do is kill each other doesn’t anyone fish or golf no one huh just swords and heads swords and heads a history itself this time
England beats France King Henry V Prince Hal himself leans into his kingly duties demol poing France and what Shakespeare would delve into years to come the Battle of aen court is one of England’s most celebrated victories and was one of the most important Tri offs in the 100
Years War then should the war like Harry like himself assume the port of Mars and at his heels leashed in like hounds should famine sword and fire Crouch for employment Henry V prologue good stuff how come these guys didn’t just like rap battle or play soccer or something like
An arrow right through the chest is way worse than a red card just saying hey speaking of soccer number three mob football I’m not talking about the mafia put a thousand on Brady would you I’m talking about mob football also known as Folk football it’s just like our modern-day Soccer Town versus town
Except it has an unlimited amount of players and there’s only two rules to the game get the inflated pigs bladder over the opposing teams lines on the other side of town and no murdering I mean I guess this is closer to rugby yeah this this is literally just rugby
This game was played competitively and eventually outlawed at Oxford University in 1555 just a guy named Jeeves in a polo oh yeah I play uh Mob football in Oxford yeah I’m uh I’m also in a frat this game got so out of hand it was banned numerous times in England there
Is great noise in the city caused by hustling over large balls from which many evils may arise which God forbid we command and forbid on behalf of the King on pain of imprisonment such game to be used in the city of the future thankfully this game has calmed down
Over the years and I has become the most popular played in watch watched game across the world go to Liverpool number two the printing press the printing press is a machine that was designed for the mass printing of texts mostly in form of books and newspapers with an
Unknown date of origin first invented in China this machine designed in the 15th century by johans Gutenberg was a revolutionary new form of writing which would only change the direction of history with the mass production of uniform text ah long story short people didn’t have to get the world’s worst
Wrist cramp writing Hamlet over and over again to be or not to be 86 more folios the alphabetical metal keys would be placed into the device and slammed into the paper pressing ink upon the parchment you know there’s got to be some books half written in purple ink
Cuz they just ran out of Black come on we’ve all been there Ink’s expensive number one William Shakespeare The Bard himself arguably the most influential writer of the English language William shakespere was born in Stratford England one of the easiest ways we can look back into the dialogue and lifestyle used by
The people living in the Middle Ages this playwright documents the world in which he lives from 1564 to 1616 due to Shakespeare’s unbelievable talent for building and fabricating an array of diverse stories and characters via players modern day is able to see the Middle Ages and the similarities and differences that people were
Experiencing his plays are based in the environment that they were written in he writes about diseases he writes about monarchy he writes about women’s rights okay so no one actually got turned into a donkey by some fairies in the woods but some of those Wars actually did
Happen and some of those kings and queens were really twisted how this man created so many brilliant works and stories all part of the mystery number 10 playing football considering football soccer for my fellow North Americans it’s basically a religion in England it’s hard to imagine them ever having a
World without it but the football they played back in the day had far less rules and was a lot rougher on the players and the infrastructure it could have an infinite number of players and could take part across an entire Village the goals were sometimes set miles apart
And the game would often be used to settle disputes so soon actual brawls of tumbling angry bodies would muck about with each other but hey according to the rules you had to do everything you could to win so if that meant punching a guy out or destroying a fruit cart that’s
What you did it also wasn’t strictly football you could use any part of your body but the game became so damaging that King Edward II had to put a ban on it it was causing too much injury and property damage he forb the games and condemned any who disobeyed to
Imprisonment you think you would have just forced people to play by safer rules not ban it all together but oh well it’s back now number nine outrageous men’s fashion I finally found the reason as to why men’s fashion has plateaued at the suit thing I sense a colorful change in the wind nowadays
Though but the last time they went really outrageous they ended up getting punished for it Medieval Europe was one of the most colorful periods of men’s fashion to date Anglo-Saxon men wore tunics trousers leggings and strappy leather shoes tied together with belts and girdles oh but that’s not all no
That’s not all Cod pieces were introduced later on what is a Cod piece piece you asked it was a piece of flare that men used to use to advertise their endowment as it were as you can suspect they got quite big as to their shoes the longer the shoes the Richer you appeared
And the more pronounced the Cod piece well I think you get the point men who wore poer shoes had a higher social position some shoes were longer anyways but from 1337 onwards laws were passed to preserve decency no one was to wear a tunic that did not cover their buttocks
Or genitals offenders were finded 20 Shillings which was around 700 lb today or roughly $1,400 can number eight swans this is actually a thing and it has been since the 12th century England it must be kind of weird just partly being born into the royal family becoming queen and
King and being told uh yes uh you own all of England and you own all the swans what yes you have to attend the swan upping what the heck is that well since the 12th century the English crown has owned all wild mute Swans in open water over time they allowed other select
Individuals to have some swans these privileged individuals had to mark their bird to distinguish them from royalty a tradition which continues today the queen only exercises the right over wild unmarked swans near the temps the Royal Swan upping is when all of the swans on the river temps are counted checked for
Their marks and then released the Royal Swan marker is currently David Barber and apparently it’s one of the Queen’s favorite things to do that’s adorable number seven medieval masks now to go with laws that make no sense there are punishments that also make no sense there is a sweet satisfaction in seeing
Someone with egg all over their face I’ll admit which is why people in the middle of ages like to serve out punishments that dealt out a good deal of embarrassment which is why for non-violent crimes people went all out one comical form of punishment was making criminals wear terrifying masks
That were terrifying to look at they were either paraded around town or placed in the stocks to frighten babies and passerbys they also made crime specific badges that you had to wear for the rest of your life one such badge was a depiction of two huge red tongues
Bigger than your hand which indicated perjury good luck getting a date or job with that one number six scolds Bridal and with the theme of odd laws we continue with some pretty weird punishments this one also ties into a little one we’re going to talk about
Later see if you can guess don’t scroll the scolds Bridal was a terrifying looking contraption that was built to punish women who ran their mouths that’s right it was a crime as a woman to have an opinion or to basically say anything anyone didn’t like they were largely
Designed to humiliate women who wore them not to inflict any horrid pain but there was a little bit just the shame though that was the big thing the Bridals would be strapped onto the head with bits in the mouth like horses the bits had spikes so it did hurt a little
But this would prevent the wearer from speaking they were expected to parade around in this medieval headwear for 12 hours so that they would learn their lesson number five witchcraft all the way back in 1542 the UK parliament passed the Witchcraft Act which condemned anyone who practiced the art
To death it was repealed 5 years later then reinstated with Flare in 1562 meaning they added more to it this led to many women being sentenced to gruesome interrogations trials and death punishments such as burning at the stake how does one know that someone was a
Witch well point one they look like one to you two if you threw a hog tied woman into a pond and she floated she was a witch number three you’re a woman and financially independent number four you’re old honestly the list goes on anyone could be accused of being a witch
If someone wanted an easy way to get rid of you they could just whisper in someone’s ear that you bewitch them when they were dreaming number four failure to entertain today if a comedian doesn’t make us laugh or we don’t enjoy a TV show we just change the channel but back
In medieval times failure to entertain the king or queen could result in your death Nicholas fial was one of the most famous gers in history for instance known as tribu he entertained King Louis the 12th and Francis I in France during the 1400s he was born with a smaller
Head and brain than other children which affected his neurological and physical appearance the king seemed to be amused by this and so he served as his his Jester he wasn’t academically smart but boy was he witty but sometimes his W took him too far this got him eventually
Into trouble and Francis the first decided to have him executed why he didn’t just fire him and kick him out in the first place no idea he must have said something that really towed the line but everything was extreme back then keep in mind but the king asked him
How would he like to die and Tria cleverly replied old age this broke the king’s foul mood because damn it was a good joke and had him exiled from the realm instead but damn he cut it close number three no more minc pies this one should make some of our British fans
Gasp or run for a builder’s tea in a mince meat pie to clutch it close to their heart but rest assured it was only on one Christmas day that eating men’s pies was illegal and that was on December 25th 1644 on that year it was legally mandated because the celebration
Fell on a legally mandated day of fasting however the pies themselves were seen as a symbol of immoral excess of Christmas season further legislation was proposed in 1656 six to clamp down on an immoral and Lush Christmas traditions like and including the minc meat pie England was currently under the rule of
Oliver Cromwell who was just the worst and he was very religious and just wanted everyone to behave and it was part of his effort to tackle gluttony but when Charles became king people stopped going after holiday treats and mince pies were safe once again number two a beached whale so considering
Poaching was illegal in the king’s Forest it only makes sense that they would try to make it the same for the sea back then they really ate everything they could get their hands on from lampri to Goose to porpus and now whale whales were seen as a royal fish and if
One washed up on shore they automatically became the property of the Royals in charge the law was passed by Edward II in 1324 because he just loved whales he decreed that all whales sturgeons dolphins and porposes caught within 5K of shore were considered Royal Fish their meat and oil fetched a lot of
Money at the markets and the rich like to covet it for their own so it was for selfish reasons that he made this rule but funny enough the law has never been repealed and you need to ask Queen Liz for permission to sell it though I doubt
She’d say no number one animal trials so it turns out that not only were humans punished if they did something illegal it was also animals as well in medieval times apparently was a regular thing to put animals on the stand everything from Hogs beetles rats mice [ __ ] rolls you
Name it absolute craziness in the 14th century local people even prosecuted Spanish Flies flies they have no control they don’t even know what they’re doing Spanish Flies were dangerous to livestock and would ruin vegetation needless to say they weren’t well-liked so they were appointed a lawyer and
Given great dignity in court though the verdict was obviously not favorable because they couldn’t speak for themselves they were condemned and banished from a plot of land it was believed that animals who committed a crime were possessed by the devil and to let them go unpunished would give the
Devil permission to take over human Affairs so they would like literally hang Pigs by nues to punish them did the Flies actually ever come back uh probably but but at least the humans felt better about it starting our list off at number 10 don’t steal crops in medieval times stealing crops was
Considered a very serious crime as funny as it may seem in your head to see a guy grab a vegetable and run away crops were a vital source of food and income for farmers and communities there’s no Uber Eats back then right somebody steals your Tomatoes you’re [ __ ] in some
Cases the punishment might be a fine or restitution paid for the victim while in more serious cases the thief might be subjected to public humiliation or physical punishment such as whipping or branding yeah branding somebody publicly all because you ate the wrong Apple off the wrong tree repeat offenders might of
Course face more severe punishments because something’s a foot here okay we’re not buying your story this time such as imprisonment or banishment from the community yeah banishment just get out of here next Village see you overall stealing crops was not taken lightly in medieval Society at all and it could
Result in significant consequences for the offender branded getting branded because he stole crop that’s embarrassing almost number nine don’t steal at all yeah let’s rewind the clocks back a bit more don’t take anything ever how’s that sound Sweden’s viy laws were a set of Viking era laws that govern Maritime trade and piracy
Now they were enacted in 832 ad pretty old school and they included punishments for various crimes including theft and piracy the punishment for stealing in a viking society and of course buried depending on the severity of the crime the value of the stolen goods and or the
Social state status of the offender but for minor thefts the offender might be required to pay restitution or make amends to the victim this could involve returning the stolen goods paying a fine to them directly or performing a service for them you’re basically a slave for them for more serious offenses such as
Repeated thefts or stealing from a Chieftain a Chieftain their punishment might be more harsh this is where we get into the nitty-gritty of our list here the offender might be stripped of their social status exiled from the community or even yeah killed the worst of the worst now
In some cases the punishment for stealing could also involve public shaming that in the Viking era I didn’t want to know what that would look like the offender might be paraded through the community or subjected to other forms of humiliation yeah we’ll get to the lung stuff a little bit later on
Slowly but surely we’ll get there you have to start at theft and then work our way to the lunging and the horrible knee breaking stuff number eight arson capital punishment was a common punishment for arson in the Medieval Age sounds a bit harsh but hear me out last
Time I was on this channel I was talking about the great fire of 1666 it took 15 lives but ultimately this fire it forced officials to rebuild a great part of the city restructured everything this Changed History fire in medieval towns equals trouble it’s going to spread
Quite fast a lot of wood a lot of Woody stuff so if you were found guilty for arson well buddy you’re screwed arson the deliberate setting a fire to property it was considered a serious crime and was often punished severely in order to deter others from committing similar crimes right in some cases
Arsonists were killed by hanging or they were burned themselves at the stake yeah burning at the stake was a particularly gruesome form of capital punishment in which the accuse was tied to a post or a stake and then they were set on fire again this is all a public Affair people
Came out to watch this horrible horrible hide Your Hide Your Eyes we’re not going to watch this one number seven amputation while amputation was not a common punishment in Viking societies there are historical accounts of it being used in extreme cases of punishment which is absolutely crazy
Tell you two of them one example is the story of orm of liar who was a wealthy farmer in Norway during the 11th century now orm old orm here he was accused of multiple killings including the killing of a Chieftain and was sentenced to have his hands and his feet amputated yeah
You can’t kill anyone when you don’t have any myths apparently this was a severe punishment that was reserved for the most serious of the most serious and it was intended to permanently disable the offender and hopefully prevent them from committing committing further crimes example number two edin krey he
Was a wealthy farmer again another farmer in rough times he was a wealthy farmer in Iceland during the 10th Century now edent he was accused of stealing cattle and as a punishment his nose and his ears were cut off do you hear that that’s edin’s ears getting cut off it’s
Horrible you can’t show it but I can definitely act it this form of punishment was intended to publicly shame the offender and serve as a warning to others yeah I see Edan over there old non-ar edent that’s why you don’t steal number six slavery slavery of course was a common practice in
Viking or medieval societies and it was often used as a punishment for crimes such as Ste piracy and Deb as I said earlier if you steal enough stuff you owe people far too much now they own you according to the Bary laws a set of Viking era laws governed in you know 832
I mentioned that earlier as well individuals who are unable to pay their debts could and will be sold into slavery yeah you got to pay some way Vikings also engaged in the slave trade they captured individuals during these raids and they sold them as slaves in markets across Europe and the Middle
East slavery was an integral part of the Viking economy and many Viking households had slaves actively who were performing various tasks such as farming household chores and even military service the treatment of slaves and biking societies varied depending on the individual owner but slaves were generally considered property and had
Few legal rights we don’t look at that often when we look at Medieval history we often just imagine guys like me with big beards you know number five the ordeal by fire also known as trial by fire this one’s a little bit different than being burned at the stake dare I
Say it’s a bit worse I don’t know it’s certainly going to last longer which is worse in my opinion this one here was a viking punishment that involved subjecting the accused this individual to a test of endurance we can call it they had to walk Barefoot over hot coals
Or they had to hold hot iron in their bare hands the belief here was that if the accused was innocent they would be unharmed by this boiling hot fire whereas if they were guilty well then and only then would they burn and suffer this punishment was not unique to
Vikings it was used in various forms throughout history medieval history it was uh it was huge in medieval Europe they they loved that they loved to ordeal by fires that was a good time ancient India as well they would perform such a task however there’s some evidence to suggest that the Vikings may
Have used the ordeal by fire as a form of punishment and trial for example the Icelandic sagas which are a collection of stories and history from medieval Iceland they describe the use of ordeal by fire in legal proceedings which again imagine being born in that era like this
Is what you have to go and watch I can’t even watch UFC I can’t watch this guy burn are you kidding me in one story a woman was accused of adultery and then she was forced to walk Barefoot over hot coals as part of her trial yeah she emerged unharmed and was declared
Innocent believe it or not I choose not to believe that I believe her feet were absolutely but but hey who am I number four getting even taking another’s life yeah can’t get much worse than that can it nowadays if you kill somebody it’s a bit different now you’ll get out early
With good behavior and then Netflix will do four miniseries all about you yeah nice you get your own Netflix special love it back in the Bary laws in the medieval Viking era taking another’s life was considered one of the most serious crimes and the punishment for doing so Vari depending on the
Circumstances of the crime but well it was all bad wasn’t it back then if the killer was caught in the act they could be killed well on the spot by the victim’s family or by the community over in 14 minutes flat everyone goes home no trial nothing if the killer was caught
After the fact they were typically subjected to a fine known as a wear Guild which was paid to the victim’s family as compensation for the loss of their dearly loved one and if the killer was unable to pay the fee they could be subjected to other forms of punishment
Including Exile or even execution Exile was brutal as well you were declared an outlaw then you were banished from Viking Society with no legal protections or rights it’s often led to you living in the wilderness and that’s terrifying and that’s lonely and that lasts a while that’s horrific in some cases the
Victim’s family could also choose to enact Vengeance on the murderer themselves rather than relying on the legal system this could lead to a cycle of violence and revenge known as a blood Feud that could last for Generations that’s crazy that sounds like it’s something from a Batman comic a cycle of
Revenge that could last Generations my God let it go Bruce number three treason treason was defined broadly and it could include acts such as plotting against the king or queen engaging in Rebellion or Insurrection or providing Aid to the enemy during wartime don’t be a little
Snake basically just don’t do any of the above the punishment for treason Vari depending on the specific circumstances of the crime and which country it was committed now this one’s quite broad you never know where you’re going to get basically in some cases the punishment could be as bad as getting hanged or
Drawing and quartering which if you don’t know that would involve you being hung and then accused us until nearly dead and then disbaling them and cutting off their limbs before displaying the body parts publicly as a warning to others so it’s yeah it’s the worst thing you’ve ever heard pretty much in other
Cases the punishment for treason could include imprisonment which is the most normal sounding thing on this list banishment or simply a fine yeah here you go I’m going to write that for you don’t do that again in some cases the accused might be given the opportunity
To plea for mercy and be granted a lesser punishment I would plea so hard I’d be the most Pleasant hard pleading peasant and all the land that would be over so quick I would beg the severity of the punishment for treason reflected the belief that the crime was a threat
To stability and security of the state and you can’t really with that medieval Society highly valued loyalty to the Monarch in the state and acts of treason were seen as a direct challenge to all of this loyalty so as a result treason was punished harshly in order to deter
Others from committing anything similar yeah don’t with Med evil times anywhere anytime anyone at all period number two rats in medieval times rats were often seen as a symbol of disease and filth and they were blamed for the spread of epidemics such as you know the Black
Death stuff like that gross little hair balls as a result rats were sometimes used in punishments in order to deter others from committing crimes because well they’re disgusting nobody wants that to happen to them right one common punishment was to tie a rat to a person’s body place a metal bucket over
Top heat up set bucket so the rat is then forced to burrow into the victim’s flesh to escape pretty horrible but it gets worse other punishments involving rats included throwing rats at a person’s face which kind of hilarious kind of horrible or forcing them to eat
A live rat both of these sound like Fear Factor challenges that is insane you get caught stealing now you have to eat a rat can you imagine that so gross I would rather do the time than have a rat get hucked at my face thank you so much
Judge and finally number one the cup Bearer we’ll finish with one of the worst jobs to have in medieval times this one’s not a punishment per se but it’s too funny to leave out this job would make me so anxious oh my gosh in medieval times a cup bearer was a highly
Trusted servant in a noble household or court now the cup bear was responsible for the care and presentation of the Lord or mady’s beverages ensuring that they were of high quality and served in appropriate vessels vessels where you can do this a lot I know kings and
Queens like to do this a lot when they’re giving their monologues the cut bear was also responsible for monitoring the Lord or lady’s health as their beverage could be laced with you guessed it poison yeah got to watch out for that I hope the cup bearer was off in a
Position of great influence and power as they of course had access to the Lord or lady at all times and could potentially use their position to manipulate history and gain favor with the ruling class that would suck one day when it you take a sip and you’re like oh that’s actually
Poison this one’s my last shift that really sucks didn’t think that would happen today kicking off the list at number 10 boiling whenever I get in a bath that’s too hot I think of the medieval times I can’t help it I can’t believe this was once a real thing I get
Chills thinking about it either water or oil would be used for this ancient punishment to die by being boiled that was reserved for those who poisoned others so if you have any vials of poison toss it don’t do it man trust me in 1531 the time King Henry VII was
Running the show they made boiling a capital punishment so poisoning somebody back then was equal to treason therefore it was agreed you should be boiled slowly in front of like a room full of people I would say that’s the worst but I know what’s also to come on this list
Number nine water taking a step away from the worst physical thing one could possibly go through let’s take a look at how far the mind will go before it two breaks sensory deprivation is still around today in fact there’s many who pay for it yeah they lie in a dark tub
Full of salt then they float and listen to Childish Gambino it’s a magical experience your senses are powerful especially combined with water so this dripping machine this old water punishment that was just all bad you had ice cold water dripping on your forehead and your face over and over for hours
And hours drops would be at different random time so you can predict it as well my toes are wiggling while I’m talking about this this is making me anxious right now in medieval times they would tie you down and then using a horn a big ass funnel they would pour nine
Pints of water down into your down your down your throat so water is horrible in many ways number eight fire can’t talk about medieval punishments without mentioning this witchy classic commonly practiced in Babylonia and ancient Israel then later on in Europe with the classic witch hunts burning at the stake
Didn’t come from churches like many believe they didn’t call the shots there at all that was mainly how small towns settled local beef Yeah by burning at the stake instead of just like a fist fight at the park burning at the stake came in full swing way back in 1431 in
France French disbelievers like Jona varc they were burned at the stake it was crazy that they actually did this as a form of punishment this is one of the worst manial punishments and believe me there’s a little bit of a silver lining here it was quicker than most sometimes
Gunpowder was sometimes used so that the burning and stuff would be much faster and brighter and louder and much more horrible a lot worse on paper but a lot faster so honestly I think it’s better history is insane another red hot punishment used in medieval times was
When the accused had to hold a red hot iron bar and then walk a few steps with it a red hot iron bar your hands were literally toast at that point here’s where it gets even worse though 3 days later the accused would come back to the
Court and then when the bandages were removed if their hands were healing they started to heal they were deemed innocent they were on the path to goodness and whatever if their hands were still in horrible condition from say I don’t know holding a red hot iron bar then they were pronounced guilty
That’s how the courts worked back then number seven the rack onto something not so hot and fast but rather dull and slow the rack is surprisingly well known it was originally introduced to the Tower of London around 1420 the Duke of exiter referred to this device as his daughter
What a weirdo it’s like guys who call their car like she it’s like okay just a little bit too close to your automobile man relax it was an open bed frame type device where your ankles were tied at the bottom and your hands were tied at
The top already we’re off to a horrible start it was horizontal as well and sometimes it was up it was it was all bad it would just leave you hanging by these ropes and these ropes were slowly tightened more and more obviously causing some problems to muscles and
Joints that were you know holding things in place this was done to extract information this is also one of the worst things I’ve heard heard even getting tickled like this would be horrible I couldn’t even imagine I make jokes because I’m uncomfortable honestly hit that thumbs up to spread some good
Vibes because we’re not even halfway done folks number six molten metal this was another form of capital punishment and if youve seen Game of Thrones it’ll ring a familiar Bell a few of these do actually yikes metal would be heated up in a cauldron for a long long time to
The point where it was Liquid it was molten metal just a soup of minerals look we said this video wasn’t for the faint-hearted and here at bumblebee we like to keep that promise they would then pour the molten metal on your head or more commonly known this would they
Pour it down the throat of the accused obviously it wasn’t done as a method to extract information it was done to brutally end someone’s life cuz they’re not talking after that of course execution by molten metal was supposedly done to a wealthy Roman general Marcus linius crus back in ancient times the
Metal would burn your muscles and skin literally cooking it and then after a few moments it would Harden bad bad not good number five ke hauling not to be confused with Keel ke hauling was reserved for the worst of the worst at Sea this was used by pirates for Sailors
Who disobeyed orders and all that jazz the victim would be suspended by a rope with rocks or weights around their ankles then they’re lowered to the Keel of the ship where all the sharp Barnacles live after so long these ships are so old it’s just piled on layers and
Layers of barnacles then they would get dragged all along them with the water and everything water plus pain it’s a lot it’s a deadly combination anything to do with Barnacles in the sea no chance I’ll literally tell you anything Blackbeard anything number four solitary confinement this is a kind of
Punishment that still exists in our modern society but it can truly be one of the worst punishments out there because of the type of psychological distress that it causes we were all just in a pandemic for so long we got so bored and we had Netflix and iPads and I
Whatevers I can’t even imagine this back in the day basically it’s a prisoner living in a single cell with little to no contact with anybody else not even like a or anything rattling Keys like in the old times it was just nothing no one would even check on them there are many
Stories about people being locked up for so long they forget about their families and some people have gone away to solitary confinement for so long that once they’re out they just forget how to speak really they forget how to be a human and interact in the real world solitary confinement and the negative
Effects that it has on a person is becoming a wider topic of conversation because the effects on a person’s mental well-being and it’s a topic for a lot of Human Rights organizations back in medieval times solitary confinement was literally just a room room made of stones it was Pitch Black freezing cold
You tucked away below some janky castle and most of the time you weren’t really alone in the dark nibbling away at your little piggies were number three rats Another Game of Thrones classic if you’re a rat person I know there’s a lot of people who do tricks with their pet
Rat that’s cool but maybe cover Stuart Little’s eyes for this one rats as a medieval punishment where do I even start okay this one was a punishment for the rats at the same time what was once called a rat trap involved a man or woman being tied down to something and
Then a metal enclosure would be strapped down to their chest or their stomach now inside this metal enclosure there’s rats which are also just loose walking around and the person can feel them the little feet walking around in their skin and this is when the person intill in the
Punishment begins heating the other end of the metal enclosure historically it was hot coals that were usually placed on top or there’s a fire underneath which quickly creates a hot environment for the rats inside from there the rats begin frantically searching for a way out but because it’s made of metal and
They can’t bite through that they find your skin and then that they can obviously bite through so you can paint the picture in your head it’s disgusting number two the braking wheel the braking wheel is literally just a large disc a pirate ship wheel almost just lying
There where somebody is untied to it and everybody else just hammers them and beats the out of them over and over but of course since we’re talking about Medieval Times everything has to be a show and whatnot so once the accused was beaten and then presumed dead the wheel
Would lift up and turn just to show everybody what’s up another way to use the braking wheel yep there was more than one again creative folks back then they would tie a person to the wheel and then continue to rotate it and then all the ropes below would get Tighter and
Tighter and twist kind of like the rack but with a literal twist and finally coming in at number one the Brazen bull this one takes the rat’s problem and then makes it a you problem at all the ones on this list the Brazen bull is the
Last one that I would do straight up haunting it’s also been referred to as a sicilian bulll and basically it’s not too complex there is a bronze sculpture off it in the shape of you guessed it a bull but in medieval times it was just a big closed cauldron and usually it was
Large enough to fit a person inside yeah this was in a Saw movie too I believe that’s how you know it’s a good one when it’s in the movie Saw so once the person was locked inside or it was leaned over so they couldn’t get out a fire would
Then be set underneath this bull and then you can probably figure out the rest in your head they would even engine near the bull so that when somebody screamed it sounded like a bull’s Roar how fun is that how fun is history I’m learning so much about history that’s
Fun on bumblebee on number 10 baby night I know that when someone asks a little kid what they want to be when they grow up some of them might respond with saying something like a princess or a cowboy or a knight but back in the medieval age kids were really becoming
Knights not just when they grew up Knights started training when they were between the ages of 7 and 10 so their childhoods were pretty shortlived in this day and age kids that age are starting elementary school and are still too short to ride most rides at the
Theme park but back in the day they were being trained to go off to war sounds like a pretty sucky situation but it gets even worse when you realize that most of these young Knights didn’t even get a choice in the matter parents back then controlled what their kids’ Futures
Were going to look like and there was nothing that their kids could do or say about it so if they were to be trained as a knight and go off to war that’s exactly what was going to happen at number nine squires now even though kids
As young as 7 years old would be shipped off to train as a knight luckily no one was going to send these kids out into battle just yet before they could even think about seeing the battlefield they had to go through training first they started off as Pages the pages mostly
Did menial tasks like working in the stables and serving food to the knights but they also learned to ride horses and use a sword a few years later when they were about 14 years old they would graduate to become a squire where they were assigned to a specific Knight sort
Of like an assistant The Squire would do some pretty menial task for their assigned Knight and they would clean and polish the knight’s armor and sword tend to the knight’s horse and help the Knight get into their armor for battle most Squires got through these tasks
With a dream that one day they would become a knight themselves and have a squire of their own but unfortunately in some cases some Squires never became Knights and they stayed a squire even past the age of 18 when most Squires would become Knights seems a little
Unfair to me but I guess in that case you wouldn’t be burdened with the knowledge that you could die on the battlefield since you would never make it there before we continue learning about medieval knights and how messed up their lives were why not consider leaving a like on this video if you’re
Enjoying it so far and maybe also consider smashing that subscribe button as well to see more videos like this one at number eight training when you picture what it would look like to see Squire’s training what do you imagine do you picture kids fighting with wooden
Swords or practicing how to put on Armor well you can put that out of your mind because that image is more sunshine and rainbows than what actually went on because training to be a KN was a very grueling process when a paid graduated to become a squire they then had to
Master the seven points of agility the seven points of agility were sort of like sports that would help the squires become good nights they had to master shooting fencing wrestling riding horses swimming and Diving climbing long jumping and tournament sports like jousting and dancing yes that is more
Than seven but let’s just agree that medieval math was flawed and not think about it too hard other than the physical skills that they had to master Squires also had to learn how to recite poetry hunt play chess and impress the ladies because even though they were
Going to be slaying people on the battlefield they still needed to be able to win a woman’s heart unfortunately even with all this training many young Knights died in their first battles but at least they tried their best right at number seven too much poop here’s a real
Downside to being a knight in the Medieval Era while we’ve been taught that Knights were these amazing brave shival men that would rescue a princess and live happily ever after the reality is that they were actually a bunch of dudes on a muddy Battlefield with poor hydren that were literally pooping
Themselves to death many Knights who embarked on crusades had a lot of parasites and diseases and one illness that proved most problematic was dissenter dissenter is an illness that basically causes super poops due to a parasite so these Knights were out trying to win back the holy lands while
Their tum tums were throwing up gang signs getting mad rumbly on the battlefield It is believed that these Knights contracted dysentery through drinking tainted water and because medicine was basically a myth at this point once you contracted dysentery you could basically kiss your life goodbye and your stomach content goodbye the
Most famous case of death by butt explosion was from the seventh Crusade where Louis the 9th had contracted dissenter and had his pants cut because he was tired of having to pull them down every time he felt a rumbly in his tumbly this all sounds like such a
Horrible way to go and a serious downside to being a knight at number six armor we all have a pretty good idea of what Knights looked like right the shiny metal armor the chain mail and helmet well as cool as they may have looked the armor that nights wore was actually
Pretty impractical when it came to agility because there was just no way you could move very easily when wearing it these Knights had to carry around a lot of weight Hollywood made us believe that swords that Knights use were incredibly heavy but in reality they only weighed
About 3 to 5 lbs yeah they were pretty hefty but nowhere near the kind of weight that Knights were carrying on their bodies because of their armor the average medieval suit of armor weighed between 45 and 55 lb and just the helmet alone weighed 4 to 8 lb Knights on the
Battlefield had to worry about fighting staying alive and carrying an extra 45 lbs on them but Knights J did had be even worse because their armor was known to weigh twice as much as battle armor these Knights had to be very strong in order to carry that around otherwise
They would have collapsed under the weight of their gear when they got too tired to keep going on number five always in danger when Knights weren’t out in some kind of Battlefield they didn’t just get to sit around doing nothing waiting for the next battle they were still Knights and people loved them
So they had to entertain people through tournaments this wasn’t your average tournament like when you went to a medieval times as a kid because this was way bloodier and safety was not really much of a priority it wasn’t as dangerous as going off to battle but
There was still a risk that Knights had to take and sometimes it ended fatally tournaments would normally involve two different events melee and jousting we all know what Jousting is though right it’s where two knights on Horseback charge at each other with lances trying to knock their opponent off their horse
This spard injured and even killed people in the past in 1559 the king of France Henry II was killed during a justing tournament because his opponent’s Lance broke apart and sent splinters into his eyes and brain these tournaments were meant for fun and games and entertainment but they often ended
In Bloodshed in some way so these Knights always had to risk their lives even when they weren’t in an active fight at number four fired as with any kind of job medieval knights could get fired these days if you get fired you just have to find another job to fall
Back on but for Knights they had it much much worse Knights served their kings and so if they did anything that went against their Monarch or if they did something that the king didn’t like they could essentially be fired from being a knight since the king is the one who
Made them one in the first place what the king giveth he could take it away pretty much when a knight was fired the king would start by hacking off the knight’s Spurs then they would break their sword then they would burn the knight’s coat of arms and hang their
Shield upside down for the entire Kingdom to see because these people really liked public humiliation and if you thought that was enough just you wait because on top of the Spurs and the Sword and the Shield they would also execute the Knight for good measure so
Really you never ever want to get fired back then because it would really end badly for you at number three burial for Medieval Nights dying was just part of the job when someone became a knight they knew that this was a risk that they were going to have to take and for some
Nights they worried about where they would be buried because it had to be in the right spot otherwise they wouldn’t go to heaven when a knight died in battle their body had to be buried in the right kind of dirt and that was a consecrated dirt of a church graveyard
To solve this problem for young Knights when they were kned they would also be given a burial plot in a church graveyard so they knew that they were guaranteed a spot in heaven when they died this however created a bit of a loophole for anyone wanting to get a
One-way ticket to Heaven because even older Knights who enlisted later in life would be able to get buried beneath a stone Effigy in a church and be able to go to heaven even if they really never did all that churchy stuff beforehand at number two yummy people as you could
Probably imagine from Medieval Nights desperate times called for desperate measures often times during battles supplies would run out and knights would be left dealing with starvation on top of everything else that they were going through this proved to be a huge problem during the Crusades because after
Supplies and food starting to run out people got desperate and started seeing other people as snacks if you know what I mean some of the porest Crusaders resorted to eating people to get them through their journey to take back the holy lands and as you can imagine it was
A pretty gory sight to see nights back then recalled seeing enemy forces on spits and dismembered people just laying around in plain view it was rough being a night back then and the amount of shortcuts and strategies people came up with just to survive got real dark real
Fast and finally at number one dehydration on top of not having enough to eat many nights from the Crusades also didn’t have anything to drink and many of them died of dehydration dehydration was especially deadly during heat waves at one point things got so bad for Knights embarking on their holy
War that 500 Knights died of dehydration in just one summer back in 1097 since it was such a terrible way to go people started weaponizing dehydration so to speak this happened when the sultan Saladin lured the enemy forces away from their water source and set fire to the
Grass around the enemy troops causing them to overheat because they couldn’t drink anything and because of the intense heat the troops got too weak to fight back and then they were defeated by Saladin the elements were so intense that these Knights really had it bad weaponizing dehydration that is a super
Messed up thing to do but back then people were ruthless number 10 pressure to perform in the Middle Ages either partner in a marriage was entitled to coidus with their Partners under any circumstances it was called the marriage right this went both ways and unless you were passionately in love with your
Partner and straight this could be a nightmare it was so sacred you could even get it on in a church and the priest would be like yep go for it failure to perform in the bedroom or anywhere was grounds for divorce which was a huge deal at the time now the
First problem here is a lack of consent but the biggest problem for men who weren’t inclined to sleep with their wives was impotency there was no sympathy for men in these circumstances if a wife accused her husband of this then the couple would have to undergo a
Bedroom trial where a crowd of wise Elders mainly grandmothers aunts and mothers would watch the couple in their bedroom for three nights if you were Rich this was even worse these trials would be carried out in public in court yeah that’s right the wife had to prove
That the husband couldn’t get it up in court now he could call on women of the night to prove his prowess if he was so inclined but if it was proven that he couldn’t then the couple would be divorced but the bottom line the main point of marriage was to have children
And if there weren’t any then this failure was placed heavily on the man number nine beastly Justice I figured I would put a light-hearted one on this list this actually made me laugh while I was researching it beastly Justice was When Animals had to go to court they
Were also put on trial like a full trial it’s wild to look back at a knight and the things they had to do for their kings and queens but the fact that they also had to get up early and like attend these courts Royal courts where a wild
Animal was taking the stand and it actually happened in history this what happened after an animal runs through town it would attack people being confused and all as most animals are but the town’s folk would actually believe that the devil was was involved in this animals scheme like these animals worked
For big red himself in 1457 villagers in France had to deal with six pigs who ran wilds and attacked locals they did a lot of damage so instead of just putting the animals down or setting them free you know away from your town they took them
To a real trial there was a judge a couple prosecutors eight Witnesses a defense attorney for the pigs which I got to say we should do a list just on that person alone what a weird job these pigs were hung from a gallows tree a knight had to normally hang pigs after a
Trial was concluded the 1400s were a wild time uh your honor due to my client being a pig um number eight a Tanner even for a medieval peasant who never washed or cleaned themselves and literally lived in filth this was a dirty job women were more commonly found
In household chores or as milk beads bar Maids Weavers Artisans and tenant Farmers this job may have fallen mostly to men and it was a rough one I’ll tell you men would rather go to war than do this job you had to get skins from a butcher along with the grime that
Covered it which was mostly manure and blood then you had to trim the skins and get rid of all the hair to do this they had to let the hair follicles rot by sprinkling it with urine or soak it in a wood ash and lime solution can you tell
Which one was cheaper then they’d scrape off the hair and any skin before washing it again in Pigeon droppings or dog poo to remove the lme and make it softer and more flexible you or the Craftsman might use fermented barley or rye with stale beer or urine again as an additive this could
Take up to 3 months 3 months plus longer as there was more rinsing and stretching until it could be used leather was a crucial resource so though dirty it was a really necessary job but oh my God no thank you number seven being a knight being a knight obviously it sounds cool
They have the sword they have the horse the flowing hair they’re saving the damel and distress All That Jazz that you picture in your head it actually sucked being a knight a lot first of all chain mail you know heavy chain mail is alone it’s like 55 lb and that was
Underneath all of your armor no way I could climb up on a horse wearing armor or chain mail my knees would Buckle no thank you being a knight is something that starts when you’re 7 years old as well you would be given to a noble to
Learn for 7 years and then at age 14 you would become a squire a night’s intern not an ideal job to have when you’re 14 but okay but if you stick it out for just seven more years then you become a knight and then you can get your chest
Blown off justing neat all that time just to get rocked by another bigger dude on a bigger Horse no just no for me number six death by anything but mostly violence life in medieval times was considered basically brutal and short if it wasn’t the plague it was a cold if it
Wasn’t disease it was the weather if it wasn’t the weather it was famine if it wasn’t wasn’t famine it was violence everywhere else it was a damn miracle if you survived childhood if you had to pick any other time in history to live like you couldn’t live in this one
Taylor asked me this earlier and I had a response but it definitely wasn’t this time literally blocked this time period from your mind between 1330 to 1479 men could expect to die 9 years sooner than their female counterparts the reason was violence against men by other men but
The biggest factor that made especially men’s lives so short was the violence as I mentioned think about it it was men who were often called to war with only their farming tools or if they were proper soldiers they would have had more but they were called off to do jobs that
Literally required them to kill or be killed homicide levels in medieval England were around 10 times higher than they are today this isn’t to say at all that women were excluded from this they were mostly the victims of this violence but there was a culture around men that
Expected them to take part in violence to the extreme from drunken brawls to duels to playful sword fights gone wrong torment there was a lot going on male gangs were responsible for most of the Mayhem as they were bolstered with the need to prove themselves but also if you
Were about to get mugged in an Alleyway and somebody wanted to fight you which was very likely cuz everyone was on edge it was good to have backup number five rat catcher as the name hints towards rat catchers are one of the worst jobs
You can have in in around a castle as an important role of course like being a fool or a literal walking talking toilet which I’ll get to later but there needs to be a chur the rats chur the rats I’m just going to start calling myself that
Back in those times rats and mice were the leading source of spreading disease they didn’t have city buses or you know people walking around throwing bottles and with these castles being big and dark they were probably full of rats black rats were a common household problem yuck so in comes the well
Respected rat catcher these guys would sometimes try and use spells to get rid of rats wouldn’t work really too well but more often than not that didn’t work so poison powders were the main trick of the trade the most famous you probably heard of is the pi Piper he visited
Germany he arrived in the small town and rumor has it this guy used a flute to drive all the rats just into the river he just he does a musical performance and then exterminates all of your pests if anything he should be getting a bonus but rather the town insist they weren’t
Even going to pay him so he used his flute to make everybody just go away and leave the town forever what an OG he’s like you don’t want to pay me no sweat number four the Crusades just imagine this thick heavy metal armor reflecting the heat from the Sun back
Against you as you chug along the desert despite being in the holy land this certainly sounds like hell as I mentioned earlier men were expected to go to war when called even if they had no training or skill and like maybe knew how to use a toothpick but had no idea
What a sword was for many it was a death sentence and the first Crusades were particularly brutal um because you weren’t only being called to war because of you know honor but you being called to war because it was a religious thing getting there was awful in the first
Place you might not even make the voyage then marches through the desert were long and hot with soldiers constantly at odds with starvation dehydration disease infection the elements and then of course a spontaneous attack from the enemy so like you’re exhausted and all sudden you have to be
Like fighting somebody to save your life there are even stories of some of them boiling shoe leather to eat it because they had nothing else and after what we know of tanning G many Crusaders Justified their suffering as a part of the spiritual journey so if you did fall ill to
Disease you were just kind of left by the side of the road to Die Alone number three groom of the stool nowadays assistants grab your copy for you maybe they answer some phone calls keep the business running while you’re off doing your other business stuff assistants are
Vital the groom of the stool was quite vital when it came to the King created by King Henry VI the role was to assist the king’s B movements yeah you had just a box with you that you carried at all times little opening lid smelled horrible and you would literally fall
The king until he needed to use you yeah portapotty weren’t a thing and there’s no way you’re going to catch a king in the woods in fact you would even catch a king wiping his own beeh that was also reserved for the groom of the stool
Lucky you in this stool you would have water towels a wash Bowl the whole setup and you’re probably thinking Taylor which poor soul had to be stuck with this role what must you done to deserve such a punishment well this is the job you wanted really only sons of noblemen
Could take on this role and in doing so they also gain access to every room tons of nice clothes any bed chamber furnishings and of course a high pay yeah I would say this is the CEST job on this list but it’s really not number two the Executioner a man named France
Schmidt meticulously chronicled his life as an executioner in detail and well as you can guess it’s not it’s not a fun one but there was a lot of humanity behind it too he had to start practicing on pumpkins at first then graduate to live animals and then humans who would
Choose a role like this well though legally the role wasn’t hereditary it pretty much was by expectation and blood the job was passed from elest son to eldest son with other sons being trained to fill vacancies Daughters of executioners married sons of executioners so the position would
Continue as most people saw this as a pretty undesirable profession it was difficult to keep anyone at their post so the job fell to the men who inherited the ax as it were so not legally but it was this cycle of executioners created something called executioner dynasties across Europe the existence of these
Dynasties meant that men were trapped in the cycle of employment and had few other opportunities to work it also meant you had a very lonely life as people who associated with death weren’t people anyone liked to hang around and number one the gong farmer the gong
Farmer of course we had to end on this one as it’s definitely the most crappy of the list medieval washrooms are just horrible they’re not really a thing they didn’t have the sanitation techniques that we have today stuff would often pile up within the castle walls and over
Time it would smell worse and worse you can only imagine the rat Trapper would be around this area too I’m assuming so maybe they would see each other in fist bump and be like hey our jobs suck nice let’s do it get that bread so these respected gong Farmers they would come
In and take the bad stuff away from the castle they were crap commuters essentially these cess pits were usually in the bottom of the castle the lowest level because you know how gravity and things work these guys would go in and dig through years of yuck piles of it
Just moving all day long back and forth out of the castle they too were paid well really well obviously but a lot of these gong Farmers got sick a good number of them just wouldn’t come out of those pits pretty horrible right and on top of that people didn’t like talking
To them their job wasn’t cool like the guy who takes heads Head and Shoulders also didn’t exist back then they didn’t smell the best they were often just kind of and they cross the street it was sad it was all bad # all bad kicking off the
List at number 10 together at last remember when you were a kid and your mom would bump into their friend at the grocery store that was the worst while they caught up for what seemed like hours you were bored out of your mind just staring at like bags of rice and
Cleaning detergent that’s when the shrews fiddle comes in two women would be locked together hands included and face each other all because they were too loud or they were arguing these were used in the Middle Ages most commonly in Germany and Austria and the contraption would have three holes one for each
Wrist and the third for your neck now sometimes they would attach a bell to these shrews fiddles to alert the town that the victim was walking by you know in order to talk smack Maybe Huck a tomato or two but the double fiddle that was the worst you weren’t released until
The argument had settled some families have an argument shirt where they put the two little siblings in and they can’t take the shirt off until they get along this is like a horrible medieval ages version of that much much more uncomfortable not made of cotton or
Funny just bad just all bad number nine point blank period all right babes let’s try not to shudder but let’s talk about periods for a second on Flow the Red Sea shark week so many names to describe a pretty sucky time for people who get their period right well it might suck
These days but back in the medieval times it was a hell of a lot worse they just didn’t have the same kinds of resources that we have today so a lot of people had to use their noodle to figure out how to get by period products weren’t really a thing back then so
People had to get creative they would use Rags or other Linens to Fashion a pad but underwear also wasn’t really all that popular yet so they had to find a way to keep things in place they would also sometimes fashion a makeshift medieval tampon of sorts where they
Would wrap cotton fabric around a twig and shove it up their hoo-ha sounds Mighty uncomfortable if you ask me some people would also seek out bog m because it was remarkably absorbent so they would make their period products out of that sometimes too this type of moss
Garnered the name blood Moss because of its use in treating wounds and use in Period products for other people who just couldn’t create these kinds of things they would just resort to wearing red the whole time so everything just kind of Blended in menstration but make it fashion number eight the ducking
Stool this next one requires so much effort as like a team I can’t believe this was a real thing the ducking stool was made to punish women involved in sexual activities how dare you shame men were punished too but if we know anything about history it was mostly
Women who had to put up with this there was first the standard ducking stool so women would have to sit in this chair strapped down while sitting outside of their home or they were carried down the street humiliation at his finest the town would be like they had sex can you
Believe it let’s take the day off work and embarrass them now losers they’re the losers so stupid so backwards the second version of the ducking stool was essentially the same thing only it was ducked into a river over and over and over again to cool her moderate Heat at
Least that’s what French writer Francois maximillan Miss says they should cool off all those angry villagers if anything I don’t know dip them in the river they’re the ones burning with rage because somebody who lives over there had sex once it’s really weird go home relax at number seven Satan’s incarnate
Back in the medieval age women were very much oppressed and Incredibly misunderstood I mean they thought so many women were witches and as time went on the criteria for diagnosing a woman with witchitis or whatever got bigger and bigger to the point where literally any woman could be accused of being a
Witch for the most BS reasons back then people thought that women were Satan’s incarnate and so they were predisposed to sin and therefore they had to be witches logic not quite present but go off I guess there were four reasons why a woman could be considered part of the
Devil’s posy one because it was believed that women are foolish and gullible which is why they turn to Magic two because women are insatiable when it comes to their carnal pleasures and so they seek out help from the devil to satiate their needs three because women
Talk a lck can we speak lies apparently and four because women are weak and the only way we can seek revenge is by using magic powers and spells now what in the balls is this all about I don’t know maybe men in medieval times were just jealous that they couldn’t Kiki it up
With the devil or because they knew deep down the women Run the World number six nosy neighbor if you were a man back in the Middle Ages and you had an affair well you would have to pay a fine and then that’s it you would go back to your
Life but if you’re a woman like everything else on this insane list it was so so much worse Affairs happen a lot okay it’s normal remember that Ashley Madison Scandal back in 2015 it sucks but also it’s not surprising at all this isn’t news to us back in the
Middle Ages women were treated the worst for these affairs they would take their noses off they would literally take a woman’s nose and or ears off of their face because they had an affair Frederick II used to punish adulterers by using Romy that was the removal of
One’s nose the whole point of this was to make the victim unattractive isn’t that the worst thing you’ve ever heard this is a real thing people did swear to God thing is nobody is running around confessing that they’re cheaters somebody has clearly spilled the beans
So they knew what was going to happen if they got caught yet they would still rat each other out meanwhile the guy just pays a small fee snitches get stitches just saying at number five married young lots of people get married at different ages I mean I know people I went to high
School with who are already married and I know people who didn’t get married until later in life but in medieval times women or rather girls were getting married off at very young ages at just 12 years old a girl would reach the age of maturity and was then entitled to
Marry usually to someone her parents had already chosen for her to me that just sounds so unfair right I mean this kid hasn’t really been able to live their life make mistakes and learn from them and now they’re expected to be a wife and soon a mother I could never I mean
I’m only 22 so I’m not even thinking about those prospects but I couldn’t even imagine the amount of pressure that would be on a 12-year-old at the time what’s worse than just the age at which these girls got married was the treatment that they received from their
Husbands under civil law a husband was literally allowed to physically harm his wife in moderation of course it was actually a medieval tradition for husbands to quote treat his wife as a pupil and teach her manners as you could imagine this made a lot of wives really
Mad and so many wives offed their husbands but things rarely got better after that because if they were caught they would be sentenced to burn at the stake note to self don’t get married in medieval times number four the Walk of Shame we’ve all heard the term Walk of
Shame at some point but what does it really mean and also where did it originally come from well it was originally referred to as a skimmington or rough music I know it doesn’t mean they would blast slip knot this whole time this was done to wives who were
Bossy or overbearing they would be forced to walk through the entire town Barefoot all those crooked horrible Stone roads ankles just toast it was horrible they would also be scand clad too because why not cuz men are making the rules that’s why and as you guessed it crowds would be waiting outside all
Prepared to bang pans and yell horrible things at her I guess these dudes just never had jobs I don’t know they were just always on standby ready to yell a lady walking by through town bare feet all because she was deemed too bossy okay if you’re wondering who exactly is
Responsible for these public humiliations um the court the official Court Judge Judy back in the day would be like yes or no did you raise your voice okay case dismissed take your shoes off we’re done here what a joke at number three ladies of the night
Sometimes you got to do what you got to do to get that coin right we all have our side hustles and dead end jobs to be able to afford rent and whatnot and sometimes we’re not exactly proud of the work that we do to make money it was the
Same back in medieval times people had to find any means to make money and for a lot of women they use what their mama gave them to support themselves and their families one of the more positive sides of life for women in medieval times was the fact that being a woman of
The night was actually a recognized profession later on throughout the times this profession would be deemed illegal but in medieval times it was as common as being a baker or something these women were actually considered to be Merchants because they sold their body as if it was any other sellable good
Being a woman of the night was such a common and widespread profession that nearly every town in medieval times had a brothel even in towns with small populations so yeah maybe they didn’t have that big of a Marketplace but they no doubt had a place where you could go
See some quality mommy milkers number two grand theft witchcraft if you were a woman in the Middle Ages you were accused of being a witch pretty often they thought women communicated with the devil like bri mentioned earlier just because some towns folk with three fre teeth said so great thanks Abe good job
Good report the punishment for practicing witchcraft wasn’t a heavy fine like guys who cheated but they would be burnt at the stake this was popular in Scotland along with drowning those are the two big ones remember earlier how I said women would sometimes be dipped into a river or a pond well
They would also sometimes just be left there it’s called witch dipping and depending on if she floated or sank that’s you know witch or not the dumbest thing I ever heard if you were charged with treason or witchcraft that was the ideal punishment cuz it surely beats
Burning to death in front of an entire Village this all got out of control come the start of the 17th century with the Salem Witch Trials that’s when people were like you know what I think this is wrong I think we should stop let’s put this torch out I think we’re good that’s
When 19 people were executed for being witches God forbid you know how to do bedm in the Middle Ages also that’s a lot of coordination to get that many towns folk together and be like okay you need this you need this how many people are standing here almost like you would
Use basic math to figure that out you’re a witch too spoiler alert we’re all witches cuz we know things I don’t know I hate this and finally at number one Crimes of the Heart for some unknown reason people were really out here in these streets and medieval times trying
To accuse women of everything witchcraft was a common accusation but the other common crime that women were often accused of was adultery but you see the thing is someone could accuse a woman of adultery even if she never had physical contact with another person now how the
Heck does that work you ask well it depended on where these people lived during the medieval age in the Byzantine Empire it was considered adultery if they spent a night outside of their husbands or parents’ homes in Slavic parts of Europe a woman could be considered guilty of infidelity for
Simply going to a public event I’m pretty sure with this logic if you even breathe in the same general vicinity of a man then you could be accused of adultery I mean what the f is that up the only bright side I guess is the fact that when it came down to punishments
For adultery men usually got the worst punishments in comparison to women however they would be accused of this crime way less often than women so I guess in a way we still got the short end of the stick damn it kicking off the list at number 10 leave one of the first
Things you’d want to do if you magically were able to travel back to the Middle Ages is come right back yeah it’s not nights and Shining Armor and drinking unlimited ipas and a heated cot it was the Dark Ages it sucked more often than not if you lived through the Middle Ages
You never left your village because where would you go the world is also so dark and dangerous nothing’s built yet you can’t warm up in a coffee shop until your Uber arrives right most Travelers just slept outside or under some bushes records from that time show that the
Average person didn’t travel in their entire life the rest of this list should also explain why number nine forget a watch it’s pretty easy to find out what time it is today you can check your smartphone you can check your watch you can check your smart watch we have
Everything we don’t even have to adjust just the hours anymore during daylight savings that’s how easy it is now you don’t even notice anymore you’re like why is it all of a sudden oh got it Apple so good back in the Middle Ages obviously it was harder to check the
Time minutes didn’t even exist yet yeah that was that Tri me out when I was reading this the day was divided by seven long hours they used water clocks Sund dials All That Jazz but none of them could really tell time to the minute that long ago the idea of a
Minute wasn’t a thing Christian monks were on a tight schedule for work and prayer so they were actually the first recorded time Keepers in medieval Europe imagine being referred to as a recorded timekeeper what time is it I’m like 8 they’re like yo he’s good let’s
Get out of here it’s gu so good even so the length of those hours depends on what time of year it is winter and summer months matter as a Canadian let me tell you these dark cold Winters really do suck gets dark at like 400 p.m. now finished work I’m like well I
Guess I’m going to bed I don’t know number eight forget a mask the plague made a mark on Humanity in the Middle Ages back then they didn’t wear a mask and social distance when Europeans were hit with the black death in 1348 fleas carried by rats were mostly to blame
Around onethird of the population was killed and it was easily contracted one sneeze later and your lungs are filling up with liquid life expectancy in the late 14th century was 20 years old because of this thing there was little to no knowledge about germs or how they
Were spreading so you’d be in the middle of a literal plague there’d be bodies lying everywhere people are dumping their dooo out windows they like oh good evening Madam and then You’ inhale and then number seven get married Love Is in the Air in the Dark Ages marriage was
Difficult to do this was long before divorce lawyers came around to get every last drop you it was so easy that if you loved somebody you would just announce that now you’re married Chris we’re married now isn’t that crazy that’s how easy it was boom no need for a priest
Big celebration paperwork who has time for that nobody likes that before marriage of course was also a no no so if somebody just happened to wander into the wrong chamber and caught you doing the dirty all you’d have to do is lie on the spot and say that you’re married and
Then be like get out weirdo and they’re like ah crap they’re married we’ll try again later but more often than not Witnesses would be asked to be present when this marriage happened because the sad reality is that guys would often go through all this get in bed do the and
Then did I ever agreeing to the Union in the next town when he’s shacking up with somebody else horrible number six disturb the peace when the Toronto Raptors won the NBA championships here the place looked like Gotham City buses were flipped there was garbage everywhere people went nuts well it’s a
Good thing basketball wasn’t around back in the Middle Ages because if you disturbed a pieace in your local town maybe you got too drunk maybe had an argument got too loud maybe there was even a scuffle in an alley an old H one two these situations that are common
Today usually end up with a slap on the wrist they’ll just send you in an Uber home or put you in the drunk tank but do any of those things in the Middle Ages and you were locked up in the center of the town for an entire day you’d be
Locked to the Piller while the town threw stuff at you and said horrible things they would assault you verbally all day day long in the Sun and depending how bad you were the night before in which town you upset your punishment could be 30 minutes it could
Be short and sweet or it could be all day long and brutal both of these sound awful with a hangover happening at the same time hit that thumbs up and keep the peace H number five steal while it’s next to impossible to prove your marriage to somebody it was also pretty
Tough To Catch a Thief no alarms No cameras it was literally like Assassin’s Creed you would just throw your hood up grab an apple hide it and then Sprint into the woods for 30 minutes and be like yes I got away safely the markup for stealing was also pretty insane for
The time but it made sense if you stole something worth half a mark in Danish controlled parts of England you would be finded 80 times whatever you stole so you’d better be a track star you’re still on that pie you’re like I got to go this is my family needs this each
Ruler had a different way of dealing with thefts so you may have gotten off lucky sometimes not trying to promote stealing here but I’m talking about a time where people would risk their life to steal a loaf of bread for their family you know not just like pickpocket a BlackBerry but again sometimes
Depending on where you got caught you would lose an ear or you would lose a hand for stealing a cranberry anything over half a mark often resulted in death as a punishment so run fast number four blasphemy when the Catholic church was running the show during the Middle Ages
You better have been part of the god squad or else you’re going to join them apparently Thomas aenas wrote about blasphemy in the Middle Ages saying that if we compare murder and blasphemy as regards to the object of those sins it is clear that Blas which is a sin committed directly
Against God is more grave than murder which is a sin against one’s neighbor on the other hand if we compare them in respect of the harm brought by them murder is the Graver sin for murder does more harm to one’s neighbor than blasphemy does to God yeah that’s that’s
What you got to deal with if you went back in time good luck hope you’re religious if you spoke ill of the church and had beliefs of your own God forbid pun intended that was one of the most wicked crimes to date if you were charged with blasphemy your tongue was
Removed with hot tongs or pliers awful according to the Old Testament other punishments would include stoning or hanging all because you just you said I don’t like them I don’t like that guy that does things the way he’s doing this I’m hungry and I’m in pain and my
Family’s dead I don’t know sorry blasphemy was common because you could accidentally do it unlike stealing you know on my way to the studio today I slipped on some ice and let me tell you if I was in the Middle Ages I would have been charged twice before 9:00 a.m.
Number three live in the city okay you may grow up wanting to live in the big city hey the big the city that never sleeps whatever whatever pulls you to the city it would have been a lot different back then living in the city sucked it was actually preferred to live
In the countryside in the middle of nowhere like starving was better than this really if you were poor in the city you had a short and nasty life cities were often built near rivers but it didn’t take long for said rivers to be full of sewage stinky water I mentioned
The plague earlier just like today numbers pop in large cities so if disease hit the town it hit the town pretty hard just constantly wiping out these packed crowds over and over and maybe you’re a fan of the NTI maybe you wish you were able to hit up these local
Medieval taverns have a yield IPA ale whatever the hell it wasn’t even that fun curfews were strict and if you were caught outside of that curfew the odds of your drunk self getting robbed would be pretty high also cities had public bath houses too which sounds nice but
Again during the Black Death maybe let’s not take a dip today let’s let’s just wait wait let’s just wait a week number two wear stripes on Wednesdays we wear pink but we never wear stripes Medieval Europe if you were caught wearing Stripes maybe you’re trying to make a fashion statement you could literally
End up dead there isn’t a gang of Minds that will silently take you out if you wear their colors no stripes in medieval Europe was seen as the devil’s clothing there are counts of real people getting arrested for wearing Stripes that’s it where and when this
Began it’s hard to pinpoint but in 1310 in the French town of ruin a cobbler was sentenced to death because he decided to wear Stripes that day it was a big deal though it wasn’t a law that changed depending on what town you’re in it was
Bigger than that in 1295 Pope Bachi the eth banned religious orders from wearing any type of striped clothing so it wasn’t like oh this town’s cool you can wear Stripes here it’s like no you’re the devil bye and finally number one witchcraft whenever we think back to the
Middle Ages it’s hard to forget that we once would accuse others of being a witch it’s like 5 plus 5 I think that’s 10 we’re like how did you know that you’re a witch you’re definitely a witch they would accuse animals of Witchcraft and Wizardry no better Su Chef than a
Golden retriever just mix it up some potions to be fair airbud played like nine different sports so I don’t completely disagree on that thought but cats what’s a cat doing with a Colden on the official list of victims from the Salem Witch Trials two cats were accused
As well as two dogs if their pet was behaving strangely it must mean that they’re working with witches in the middle of the night nothing to do with a poison ride just all over the floor it’s for sure part-time witch villagers believe that witches traveled at night
Not by broom but by riding on the back of your furry friend and it also wasn’t just dogs or cats they thought witches rode pigs wolves dogs even Turtles Imagine a witch riding a turtle I’d be like I’m good I’ll beat you there even so if you were convicted of being a
Witch you had to confess if you confess to being a witch your life was spared and oddly enough if you refused to confess then you were executed in the meantime though being a witch and all your head was being dunked in water you were sleep deprived these horrible
Torture methods were used until you were so broken that eventually you just admit to being a witch you’re like fine I me and airbud we witch it up happy and then you fun if you were suspected of Witchcraft you also had to get naked in front of all these creeps while they
Looked for the devil’s Mark the devil’s Mark being a birth mark or a mole or Freckle blind mesh on the skin whatever all signs of making deals with the devil apparently this thing would have I would have gone to jail for sure for this one I would have been dead for this that’s
Huge number 10 where’s My Mummy interior of a kitchen oil on canvas by Martin drooling was painted in 1815 and depict shades of Browns Tans beiges and Golds that were remarkable of the era where did did he get these colors some had wondered well good old Martin had a
Little Help from the dead mummy Brown was appropriately named as it was made up of you guessed it groundup mummies from the 16th to the 19th century many painters favored the pigment and it remained available well into the 20th century even as supplies dwindle Egyptian mummies are rare nowadays not
Because a few survived thousands of years in their tombs but because few survived the aesthetic and cannibal demands of Europeans eating Egyptian mummies reached its peak in Europe by the 16th century mummies could be found on Apothecary shelves either in broken shards or ground into powder so why did
These nutcase Europeans believe that there was medicinal value in a mummy bitumen abundant in the Middle East where formed in geological basins of the remains of tiny plants and animals it could be semi- liquid or semisolid it is viscous when heated and harden when dried making it useful for broken bones
And rashes supposedly bitumin with wine cured chronic coughs and combined with vinegar it’ll dissolve clotted blood other uses included the treatment of cataracts toothaches and skin disease because of the stickiness it was called mum or mamia you see where the mixup is coming in so when the invasive Colonial
Europeans saw the black stuff coding these ancient remains for the first time they assumed it to be that valuable bitum or mamia they’d heard about they were quick to start gobbling it down the mummified remains of Egyptian pharaohs were sold as medicine in Germany well into the 20th century and speaking of
The Dead how about using them for Decor Ballroom of Bones is number nine not all bones are tasty enough to eat and sometimes you got more of them than you can handle so that’s where uar come in in older times when people perished often before 50 there was obviously a
Lot more human remains to be disposed of but sometimes there’s not more space so as a space saving technique the skeletal remains of buried bodies would be dug up and moved into underground CPS called ossuaries many more remains could be stored that way as bones didn’t need the
Whole space that a body did and could also be stacked hung or broken into position the bro uary in the Czech Republic is the second biggest in Europe featuring chandeliers artwork words crosses really anything that can be made up of Bones these structures and pieces can be incredibly elaborate Hall State
Chnal House features hundreds of hand painted skulls and the sad like church uary even features a large crown made up of human remains hanging over the Pew where they preach from if you’re goth you may want to consider that for a marriage location let’s get hot with
Greek fire in at number eight Greek Fire arguably the Jesus of the flame world for its ability to walk on water baffles historians and scientists alike to this day invented in the bantine empire in the 7th Century this fire was used to defend their empire from Invaders countless documentation verifies to us
Today that the stories of this fire was very real but because its formula was state secret nobody’s quite sure what it was used to create this liquid the substance could be thrown in pods or shot from tubes it apparently caught fire spontaneously and could not be extinguished with water it could burn on
Top of it it was heated and pressurized then delivered via a tube called a siphon at the Grecian enemies what’s truly fascinating about Greek fire is that armies who captured the liquid concoction were unable to recreate it for themselves they also failed to recreate the machine that it was
Delivered from to this day nobody knows exactly what the ingredients went into this mixture dance the day night and your life away with number seven in the countdown the kabek incident is one of the first few recorded instances of dancing plags later there are stories of Unstoppable sometimes fatal dancing in
The German Town EET in 124 7 shortly after 200 people are said to have danced themselves all over a bridge of the Mosel River and mastr until it collapsed drowning them all the 1518 event was most thoroughly documented and probably the last of several such outbreaks in Europe which took place largely between
The 10th and the 16th centuries a woman reportedly stepped into the street and began dancing seemingly unable to stop and she kept dancing until she collapsed from exhaustion after resting she resumed the compulsive frenzied activity the more she continued the more others were Afflicted and within a week 30
Others mimicked her strange Behavior alarmed City officials thought maybe more or better dancing was the solution so they gathered up the real pros and some music and arranged dancing Halls to help The Afflicted Boogie this out instead the opposite happened and now as many as 400 people were consumed by the
Dancing compulsion a number of them died from their exertions in early September the Mania began to Abate and that’s the last we know of this phenomena so what is this plag and why were all these people dancing themselves to Doom well the explanation at the time was the
Usual stuff like demonic possession or your blood was too hot modern day it’s likely because of Urgot poisoning from molding ride flow used to make their bread as it’s been known to cause hysteria and convulsion to this day hundreds of accounts of dancing plagues are found recorded in Dark Ages but we
Have no explanation as to why I don’t see dead people I see green people the woolpit Alien Children Are number six in our countdown two English chroniclers reported a story from the 12th century that villagers of woolpit discovered two children a brother and sister who had green skin and spoke an unknown language
The children were quickly taken to higher officials Richard D col’s house where he attempted to communicate and failed the children also refused to eat for days on end until seeing green beans in the garden which they ate straight out of the ground they stayed with Richard long term as he converted them
To a normal diet and they started to lose the green pigmentation obviously after time and growth these children learned English and when they were asked where they are from they told Richard we are inhabitants of the land of St Martin who is regarded with peculiar veneration
In the country which gave us birth they further explained that where they were from everything was green and they had been tending to their father’s animals that they followed into a cave emerging out of it they found themselves in woolpit the sun does not rise Upon Our
Countrymen our land is little cheered by its beams we are contented with that Twilight which among you precedes the sunrise or follows the sunset moreover a certain luminous country is seen not far distant from ours and divided by a very but considerable River shortly after this description of a non-existent land
Richard took the children to be baptized in a local church however the boy died very shortly after from an unknown illness the girl known as Agnes grew into adulthood and married she remained private and spoke little to many and so the secret of their original Homeland died with her Children’s Crusade is
Number five joining Where the Wild Things Are and Labyrinth for most bratty and annoying kids is a boy in some stories named Steven who claimed to have been given a Divine message from God to go forth and conquer the world he was 12 anyways Steven approached many Royals
Looking for resources only to be turned away he even asked for the support of King Philip of France who very rationally told the kid to go back home before bedtime this was directly after the Holy Land Crusade so it was mainly due to the fact that they believed he
Wanted to live out a hero Legacy like his idols because he was 12 like prepubescent boys Steven wasn’t going to drop it when told no he instead started preaching and recruited a band of faithful children to lead them into the Holy Land one day having found someone
To supply his large gaggle of children reportedly over a thousand with a boat Steven loaded everyone up unarmed and unprepared and took to the Seas they were never seen again it’s believed Steven’s ship sank or the children were stolen by the ship crew and brought to Egypt for other unfortunate purposes no
Matter what happened the preachings of Steven led to what’s believed somewhat between a, and 10,000 children to their demise Steven is one a few documented children Crusaders none of which can technically even be labeled as a crusade because to fall under that title a mission had to be delivered and blessed
By a pope no Children’s Crusade was ever approved speaking of holy Crusaders the fate of the Templars is number four in our countdown founded in 1,118 as a monatic military their Duty was the protection of pilgrims as they traveled to the Holy Land following the Christian capture of Jerusalem during
The First Crusade the Knights of Templar quickly became one of the richest and most influential groups of the middle and Dark Ages erecting Banks castles and churches their wealth would be their downfall a secret letter detailed black magic and scandalous sexual activities that was sent through France the reality
Of of this document was that it was made by King Phillip of France who notoriously stole and plundered from anyone he could in response more than 600 Templars are arrested as well as hundreds of non-w Warriors who handled the day-to-day work such as banking farming and organizing the men were
Charged with a wide array of offenses including heresy devil worship spitting on the cross homosexuality fraud and financial corruption the Templars meanwhile were kept in isolation and fed Meer rations all while facing brutal torture given the extreme conditions of medieval methods it’s not a surp R within weeks hundreds of Templars just
Confessed to false charges their lands and money were confiscated and officially dispersed to another religious order the hospitallers although greedy philli did get his hands on some of the cash he coveted didn’t know this guy was real but the pi Piper is number three the proof is etched in
The hinia face itself an inscribed plaque on the stone facade of the so-called Pi Piper’s house dating to 16002 reads ad 1284 on the 26th of June the day of St John and St Paul children born in Hamlin were LED out of the Town by a piper wearing multicolored clothes
After passing the calvary near copen BG they disappeared Forever The Tale in fact has survived a very long time originating as medieval folklore it inspired the Grim Brothers Legend the children of Hamlin and one of Robert Browning’s best known poems the P Piper of Hamlin while there are some small
Differences in the stories the basics remain the same the piper was hired by the people of Hamlin to rid the town of Wrath trailing after their hypnotic notes the rat catcher and his magical Flute made them go to their demise but when the town refused to pay the piper
For his service the Savior came for Hamlin’s children and transed by the notes of his Magic Flute the boys and girls followed the piper out of town and simply vanished so what happened to Hamlin’s children one theory is that the pi Piper played the role of a so-called locator or recruiter they were
Responsible for organizing migrations to the East and they were said to worn colorful garments and played an instrument to attract the attention of possible settlers popular opinion is if this is the case the children may have been taken to the Berlin area as the family names common in Hamlin at the
Time show up in surprising frequency in areas of ukar and pris niik near Berlin an entry in Hamlin’s Town records dating 1384 laments that it’s 100 years since our children left the stained glass window in town St Nicolai Church destroyed in the 17th century but described in earlier accounts reportedly
Illustrated the figure of the pi Piper leading ghostly white children away and St Anthony’s fire number two in the countdown is not as cool as it may sound when people of Paris were tormented with painful boil sore swelling and The Sensation of Fire In Their Skin the only
Cure seemed to be a trip to St Mary’s Church in Paris there Duke Hugh the great nourished the ill with his holy grain stores said to help the ill recovered and they did but as soon as they returned home they had the plague again with terrible illness the cause St
Anthony’s fire the disease starts with faint burning in the skin soon red spots covered the infected person’s body who felt like their limbs were on fire arms would swell and turn bright red then terrible hallucinations would plague them convincing them they were being assaulted by demons or dragged to Hell
Finally Gang Green would set in and the victim’s fingers and Toes would drop off one by one once infected few survived so what caused this horrible disease and why did holy grain cure it well if you’ve seen our video top 10 unusual events from medieval history you may
Know about Urgot poisoning it’s a fungus that grows on rye during cold and damp conditions when the grain is ground up and then made into bread people consume the fungus and poisoning in Serv so Duke Hugh’s stores of holy grain were better maintained because of his status and they weren’t contaminated with Urgot
When people ate his grams their ergotism went away but as soon as they returned to home and they consumed their contaminated grains they were poisoned again Urgot would remain undiscovered still for years to come and many forms of Urgot poisoning would manifest in this time number one takes the video
Title seriously though the Dark Age it said the ninth plag of Egypt was complete darkness that lasted for 3 days well this may not be entirely wrong with the exception of it actually being 18 months in 536 ad it set a huge portion of our world when under a dark
Mysterious fog that fell on Europe the Middle East and parts of of Asia the fog blocked the Sun during the day causing temperatures to drop crops to fail and people to die as a result countless documents were found in this country of mysterious Darkness however they weren’t taken seriously until the 1990s when
Researchers in Ireland noticed the rings on the inside of trees indicated some funny business around 536 summers in Europe and Asia became 35 fah to 37 F colder China even reporting Summer Snow they realized that the ancient Witnesses were really actually on to something they weren’t being hysterical or
Imagining the end of the world now research has also discovered what may be the main source of the darkness a volcanic eruption in Iceland in early 536 helped spread Ash across the Northern Hemisphere creating a fog and altering the global climate patterns causing years of famine with this
Realization counts of 536 become real horrifying real fast I mean put it in perspective one day the world is plunged Into Darkness and then the sun just never rises again in primitive times s especially this seemed to have a traumatic effect we Marvel to see no
Shadows at of our body at new wrote Codorus a Roman politician he also wrote that the sun had a bluish color and the moon had lost its luster and the season seemed to become jumbled together so in at number 10 we have witch marking I’m trying to avoid some things we’ve
Already covered in similar videos so while we’ve discussed witches let’s talk about witch marks so during the English and Scottish Witch Hunt days there was a belief that witches always had a natural skin mark this could be a mool or a scar or a Pock Mark or even a really bad zit
So when they came across a woman whom they thought were a witch but she didn’t have any of those markers that was the end of it right she isn’t a witch well no they gave her a skin Mark instead specifically by using a pricking needle which the witch Hunters would carry
These needles repeatedly pricked the Flesh of the accused Until It produced the result that wouldn’t bleed but was insensitive to pain which fulfilled the criteria of a witch’s Mark it’s a subtle punishment for something that they were yet to be accused of because by giving them the mark they could now accuse them
These Witch Hunt days were a whole mess number nine is marking your territory not in a cool sexy I got a tattoo way more in a Scarlet wet kind of way as you’ll learn in this video a woman who cheated or even was single and just engaged in Intercourse of her own free
Will could be classified as a sinful adulterer and cheater and be punished usually a lot worse than a man so when Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote The Scarlet Letter he took inspiration from real life events the letter which for the character Hester prin was just a red a
Was usually the letters a d which stands for adultery as outlined by the Plymouth Colony law in 1658 multiple accounts across Europe verify that someone who has been marked was to be seen out in public without it could be subject to public whipping and other public humiliations that ensured a person’s
Social alienation like in The Scarlet Letter when Puritan Minister Arthur refuses to admit his sinful side of the act with Hester he’s branded with an a in his chest in a man’s case while this was of of course painful it was allowed to be hidden he also didn’t have to face
The societal consequences the way any woman would have for number eight we travel to discuss status degradation while it still persists today not everyone knows what it means so essentially you do something wrong oopsies you lose some of your basic human rights you could steal something have relations out of wedlock cheat on
Your partner Miss some work every Empire that has used this tactic has had a variety of ways that you could mess up and receive this punishment naturally in times where a woman was property and could buy things own things or do things or breathe without having a man’s side
Eye her for it this was a Monumental punishment to receive under the Roman Empire Augustus who reigned from 27 BCE to 14 CE a woman guilty of adultery could lose several rights as a citizen and suffer a financial burden Noble woman in the Kingdom of Korea during the chosan dynasty faced a similar
Degradation of their societal status if they found guilty of remarrying as a widow this intentionally made it hard for Korean women to remarry as they would have nothing to offer a new husband no inherited lands or funds and a societal belief deemed her as used Goods even the descendants of widows at
The time who had remarried fac status degradation they were barred from ever holding office adulteresses in the chosan were stripped of many of their rights and privileges once they were demoted to lowborn statuses as serious as these punishments may seem some high status women who committed adultery in
The chosan dynasty faced an even Graver punishment which was death so why take someone’s status from them as a criminal punishment well because it’s aside from the fact as a woman you’d essentially be left jobless homeless and without any family it’s because of a cheaters F
Number seven while f is a Latin term for reputation and good name every country had its own version of this F and if you cheated or were even just accused of cheating in 13th century France which by the way happened a lot because husbands just want to get rid of their wives the
Woman was always the center of the punishment even if that was the man who had been cheating this is because the status is all woman ever had for a very long time and the name of her family’s reputation laid on her shoulders thus all that pressure to be religious
Virtuous and most importantly a submissive woman the customary laws of agen Province list public humiliation for both the wife and her lover as the appropriate punishment for adultery if the man could Escape before or even after arrest he could get off without any punishment and his partner had to
Face her punishment alone the woman got no such reprieve even if she was just the mistress he cheated on his own wife with in fact if she tried to escape arrest it warrant a death sentence women whose F suffered through public shaming walk of atonement were no longer deemed
Honorable members of society and seeing as daning of individuals before law at the time was often based on their reputations what others thought of them and how they behaved in public she’d be left as I said Homeless familyless and dejected for my Game of Thrones people think Cersei number six is no protection
Get your mind out of the gutter that’s not what I’m talking about I mean there’s no protection from capital punishment while civil laws were easier to work around by just getting married alone you can borrow money or property you can buy things that you couldn’t before and sign contracts the criminal
Law didn’t bend to a married woman as she faced the same penalties as an unmarried one now there are technically one exception pregnancy but only because it could potentially be a boy which is insane additionally all women were exempt from certain tortes such as the breaking wheale but man when a woman got
Capital punishment it was the one and only form and it was the most brutal and painful one burning at the Stak by the way they claimed this was the only and the necessary option of execution for a woman as it’s a preservation of female modesty apparently other forms of
Execution were Unbecoming of a woman although there may be some truth to this wild justification modern historians have rounded it down to just misogyny as well as a deep rooted suspicion and dislike of women as the root of this execution decision essentially when given the opportunity to punish a woman
Men went ham for it and wanted to see her suffer as much as possible so women experienced the worst executions of the Dark Ages number five is why women want to stay in religious favor in medieval Europe a device was literally invented for women who defied their religious
Beliefs pyramid shaped and made of wood the woman who dared to defy her God should fear this see they would bind the woman’s hands and ankles and then sit one of her two G openings on the peak of the pyramid she would then be incapable of Shifting her weight anywhere else and
Was forced to put her weight down on the tip it would slowly slide upwards and inwards and the longer she was pressed down on it the more her body apart these women would be left for days on end sometimes on this device the device of slow agonizing death can be compared
Only to the shame it inflicted as well the woman was strip nwed and forced to suffer this torture in public for all to see number four is Haram to start the word haram is derived from the Arabic word harim and it often means sacred forbidden and sometimes Sanctuary this
Was an accurate name as only women’s household members and some related male members were allowed to enter a Haram which was an honored women’s space the Haram was Ultimate symbol of a Sultan’s power his ownership of women mostly slaves was a sign of wealth power and sexual prowess the seclusion from public
Gaye also inflated this power more so but a royal Haram could be a place of Filth and stin where chaos and emotions ran high this was the price of being property used by the Emperors and his sons you could either be favored or so hated that one day you vanish and rumors
Of your Exile whirl amongst your peers these ladies usually did not have the Liberty to move out of the Haram as they liked but inside the heram they could move around as they pleased there was no Sisterhood in them either socializing amongst themselves was usually not friendly and jealousies were shown
Directly makes sense as status and position of authority in the Haram were determined by the place that they had in the emperor’s favor and to give the king his first male child was a great competition in this regard resulted in unpleasantness through the Royal Harum everyone tried their best to please the
Emperor and turned her bad qualities like jealousy aggression or short-tempered attitude onto other women seeing as many many of these women were stolen from outside the Empire let alone inside frustration with language barrier and culture Clash was also a huge source of contempt sometimes the women would
Lie to the sultan to have others disposed of or they’d simply gang up on one another regardless Herms were places of drama inequality and a race to be favored as a ticket out of sexual servitude hidden sexuality is number three there were plenty of mainstream laws in medieval and middle Europe
Against male homosexuality and while it wasn’t considered a serious lesbianism still posed a threat to the ideals of a male centc societal order a law written in 1260 France stated that women caught engaging in homosexuality shall undergo mutilation on her first and second offense and on her third she must be
Burned this is one of the only laws to specify consequences for lesbianism but the 13th century and Christian perspective of sex radicalized further into modesty lesbianism was equated to sodomy at that time point and therefore carried a similar sentence death there is sufficient evidence of lesbians in
Middle Ages most of which come from the church turns out many nuns were sexually active lesbians and the church directly acknowledges their presence by having to pass laws establishing penalties for nuns caught having sexual relations with each other so not only were they having sexual relations with each other but it
Was enough that the church had to do something about it for example during the 8th Century Pope Gregory III gave penances of 160 days for a natural female actx still no torture or death though this is because as long as phus or other fallace shaped objects weren’t used or involved the relationship wasn’t
Considered real intercourse real intercourse involved procreation after all So eventually when Christianity uped the anti however any sexual act that caused pleasure which now included lesbian intercourse or plain old self-stimulation was now considered sin so like most women of the Middle Ages even bisexual and lesbian women had to
Settle down for a man at that point anyone who struggled with sexuality can imagine how Dreadful it would be to live that way divorce was a nightmare which is why it’s number two in our countdown laws worldwide were unforgiving of divorces literally always to the woman in Chinese laws a woman could only
Divorce her husband if he mistreated her family not even her he on the other hand could divorce her for anything some accepted grants were divorced were failure to Bear a son evidence of being unfaithful lack piety to the husband’s parents theft suffering a virulent or infectious disease jealousy and talking
Too much uh pretty superficial list but in Chinese Society divorce was a serious action with social repercussions for both parties so consequently divorces were not as common as they may sound she could not be divorced if she had no family to return to or if she had gone through the three-year morning period
For her husband’s dead parents and speaking of family during the Han Dynasty unmarried women brought a special tax on their family and women with babies were given a three-year exemption from the tax and their husband’s a one year so there was a huge push to get married meanwhile in
Medieval England their similarities are Stark they two had a small number of divorces despite an expansive list of reasons to do so such as there was a discovered blood relation between the individuals or impotence or fear used to obtain consent the marriages entered into under false pretenses things like
That in many of these cases the lack of sufficient evidence made them difficult to prove and thus deterred people from taking their cases to court and number one is the tradition of foot binding it existed for around 10 centuries and there are women alive today who still
Have feet that are the result of feet binding foot binding involves systematically breaking the feet and shaping them inwards this tradition started in the five Dynasty 10 states period of the 10th century when beloved concubine of the Emperor built a guild lotus flower stage and performed a dance
On bound hoof shaped feet being a beloved concubine the other concubines of the emperor attempted to imitate her feet to Curry his favor so foot binding began within the Royal Court and spread through China as the next fashion fat it’s done in a ritualistic ceremony accompanied by a variety of traditions
To word off any bad luck they began by tucking the toes under the feet and using a long tight ribbon wrapped up to the ankle to hold it all in place anytime the foot grew they broke it inwards more a process usually taking 2 to 3 years the foot would remain Bound
For the rest of a woman’s life there is a whole list of issues this caused outside of extreme Agony and being a handicapped it caused some women pain for the rest of their life their walk was changed as was their posture and the idealism of a slim body to lighten the
Pressure on one’s feet was all the rage The Binding of feet actually caused the women to develop strong muscles in their hips thighs and buttocks so much that the characteristics were considered physically attractive to Chinese men of the area aka the girlies were thick when colonization came to China Western women
Boycotted foot binding going as far as to catch women with bound feet and cut off their bindings a humiliation because these women would never ever show their bare feet to anyone let alone even husbands and many of these women lost their husbands when the Western boycott
Worked a lot of girls who had had their feet bound in order to become marriageable suddenly found themselves abandoned by their husbands because foot binding was no longer fashionable at all all kicking off the list at number 10 an arming Squire being a knight okay obviously this sounds cool on paper they
Have the sword they have the horse the flowing lady the gal on the back of said horse they’re saving the damel in distress or something right sometimes they lose a hand like Jamie Lannister but that’s just what being a KN is all about right also spoiler alert if you
Haven’t seen Game of Thrones 9 years ago it wasn’t always a fairy tale epic being a knight first of all this process starts when you’re 7 years old as well so you would be given to a noble to learn for 7 years and then at age 14 you
Became a squire ah yes a noble Squire we’ve heard this term before what do they do well it’s it’s a night’s intern yeah not an ideal job to have when you’re young but it’s a job nonetheless also you had no choice so you you had to
Do it welcome to the Middle Ages arming Squires they had a lot of responsibility arming Squires would repair a night’s armor while they were still wearing it yeah how fun is that oh which Buckle was it ah yes that one yeah fixing up chain mail on a grown man’s thigh not ideal
Welcome to the Dark Ages pretty dark also after these epic messy battles arming Squires would have to clean everything off of their armor yeah everything a lot of yuck going on in that business day this was long before Dawn soap was also a thing so they had
To clean with urine yeah gross so gross it gets worse and worse welcome to the Dark Ages number nine plag Bearer Yep this one’s as awful as it sounds the title of this one really gives it away the hot summer of July 1665 what to do
With all of these poor souls who have been hit by the plague in the Dark Ages where do we put them what do we do you can’t just hide them all in the catacombs this time around so now what well a plague Bearer he’s got your back Church wardens would organize burials
Right this was a normal thing even back in the dark ages in the 1600s but when the plague hit they had to change things up a little bit if somebody had the plague these guys would be responsible for transporting them far far away and then burying them a church would house
These plagued Souls away from society how Grim is that but it’s probably a great call All Things Considered poor God number eight a knight when we think of the knights and you know the Dark Ages and stuff we often forget about the silly Royal duties that one had to
Attend to yeah you thought jury duty sucked oh boy beastly Justice you ever heard of this if not Buckle in beastly Justice was When Animals had to go to court yeah they were put on trial as well as well as humans it’s wild to look
Back at a night and all the things they had to do for their kings and queens but the fact they also had to wake up early and attend court like a noble like Royal Court where a wild animal was now taking the stand like what a joke I’d be like
Really do I have to be here I woke up at 4:30 what’s going on yeah this would happened after an animal runs through town it would attack people you know being confused and being an animal and all but the town’s folk would actually believe that the devil was somehow
Involved in this whole ordeal like these animals worked for big red himself right how weird is that in 1457 villagers in France had to deal with six pigs who ran wild and attacked locals they did a lot of damage apparently but instead of just you know setting the animals free or
Putting them down or whatever they just took them to court a real Court like a real trial there was a judge a couple prosecutors eight Witnesses a defense attorney for the pigs which I got to say that we got to do a list on that that’s
A terrible job that’s one of the worst jobs ever I lightly introduced here these pigs were then hung from a gallows tree it was so horrible the Dark Ages dark right a knight had to formally hang pigs after a trial was concluded yeah being a knight sucked number seven leech
Collector I always enjoyed catching frogs growing up that was always fun but apparently I I got to step my game up this is weak a leech collector is well exactly what you think back when medicine was pretty much non-existent sickness was just wafting throughout these old towns just moving through
Towns like the G from the Goosebumps logo just haunting towns moving through scariest intro ever right so the solution back in the day was the classic oh if you feel sick maybe try bleeding for a bit see if that helps yeah they would use horses legs to lure out these
Leeches but most of the time these leech collectors would have to get in and get dirty and just grab them themselves they would have to swim around and touch as many things as possible they would make contact with as many leeches as possible how gross is that that was the best way
To collect them really I would have fainted so often that is horrible the loss of blood here was obviously so intense so it was a know horrible job to have and on top of that you got to look out for the same reason they need leeches in the first place disease yeah
That’s still out there leech collectors were so common throughout the 18th century that leeches basically were extin to that point we almost lost leeches so close number six Jesters the earliest accounts of the fool go back to the 11th century so pretty OG these fools were hired to liveen up the party
You know dance and be silly wear pajamas most of you have an image of a gesture in your head you know jumping around on tables telling jokes that’s actually pretty accurate yeah it was pretty fun it was one of the best jobs to have obviously this title of a Minstrel or a
Fool rather it was an honor to have the Fool’s payment also was was no funny business that was good stuff Roland Le pettier he was like a major Jester back in the day this guy got 30 acres of land from King Henry II just here here you go
To show up and fart and be funny how out land that’s like a kingdom you have a kingdom because you’re funny and you’re silly he would whistle jump around and literally fart on people on Christmas Day this guy would come over and just ruin your entire breakfast and just be
Like like yeah I have all this land and then he would take off it’s crazy you just ruined Christmas sir stop farting on my food and family thank you I would never want to be a Jester they had to also like go into battle and like spread
Bad news too it was fun and silly but they were also Royal they had to do lousy stuff too number five groom of the stool nowadays higher ups in the office they have assistance you know to grab your coffee for you maybe they answer some phone calls keep the business
Running while you’re off you know doing your businessman stuff assistants are vital today the groom of the stool though that was uh huh that was a bit much we have some labor laws put in place now I don’t think we’re going to see any online ads opening for a groom
Of the stool we’ll see though fingers crossed had good benefits back in the Dark Ages this role was vital and respected it was created by King Henry VII and this role was to assist the king and specifically assist his bowel movements you had a box that you carried
With you at all times that’s where the that’s where the magic happened the dark magic happened in this box he would literally follow the King around until he needed to go to the washroom until needed said box portapotty weren’t a thing back then and there’s no way you’re going to catch that King
Squatting in the woods in fact you would even catch that King wiping his own behind that chore was also reserved for the groom o the stool yeah lucky you right in this stool you would have water towels a wash Bowl the whole setup would be in there you’re probably thinking
Taylor which poor soul had to be stuck with this role a prisoner somebody who lost their sense of smell hopefully no only sons of noblemen could take on this role and in doing so they also gain access to every room in the castle tons of clothes any bed chamber Furnishings
You name it and of course a high pay always helps thank God that’s maybe the worst job in history maybe we’re almost there you’ll see number four divorce lawyers have You’ seen Game of Thrones you’ve heard of trial by combat that was the that was the norm back in the day
You know you fight for your freedom that’s great but what about divorce by combat what in the Mr and Mrs Smith is happening was this real I can’t believe this if you and your significant other weren’t getting along in the Dark Ages instead of you know dishing out
Thousands on couples therapy and signing all that paperwork and getting it done with and going your separate ways no instead they would battle each other like combat it was an organized event too it had restrictions in place for the husband it’s pretty hilarious to think back on like the husband would have to
Stand in a hole with one hand tied behind his back while the wife ran circles around this hole with a sack full of rocks a sack full of rocks how intense is that that’s why you don’t cheat in the Dark Ages Lancelot okay just take the barn take the horse take
It all I quit get me out of this hole untie me number three toshers toss a coin to your tosher here we go this was one of the worst jobs back in the day and it wasn’t even a legal job don’t tell if you don’t any uh if
You don’t any toshers keep keep their secret you know early 19th century London I know a little more modern here but definitely worth a mention these toshers would spend all their time in sewers below London trying to find coins or valuables that have been just accidentally washed away yeah they would
Just search for scrap metals anything really that nobody else wants to go down and claim or reclaim rather it was worth the plunge as well a lot of these folks would make around 20,000 a year it’s got to do this a lot and you’re good number two dentist Doctor Surgeon spy dentists
Were not a thing in the Middle Ages you know Dr Downer didn’t politely tell you to floss more and then Shake Your Hands while you’re watching a show getting a cleaning no it wasn’t like that at all they did have a barber they had one guy
He did it all a barber from the Dark Ages yeah this appointment is going to suck my friends cavity toothache maybe accidentally bit a rock chipped a R ER they would only pull these teeth that was the only solution Barbers were responsible for cutting hair pulling teeth bloodletting you know the classic
3 in1 appointment we all have to do every month doctors were seen throughout history and they’ve seen a lot of horrible stuff back in the 1500s patients were walking in with an arrow sticking out of their legs yeah instead of cutting the tip off and pulling the opposite way the arrow remover would
Come in and then you know cut into the injury opening it more that’s always great then you would hold it open and then you’d pull the entire Arrow back out of your leg yeah what a fun job or chest wherever the arrow went you had to figure that out this poor soul and
Finally number one the rat catcher Another Game of Thrones classic if you’re a rat person I know there’s a lot of people who do like rats like rat tricks and they have like cool rat friends that’s awesome I’m not one of those people I’m not bashing you but I
Am bashing this job this would suck first of all rats as a medieval punishment was horrible where do I even begin with this one this is one of the worst punishments for the rats as well this is a two for one when it comes to pain a rat trap involved a man being
Tied down to something and then a metal enclosure would be strapped to his abdomen or chest and then inside this enclosure they were rats and they were also like tucked away and then historically they would heat the uh metal enclosure and the Rats would panic
And try and get out and they would chew through the softest part which in this case was your chest or abdomen it was horrible it was an absolute nightmare but these rats had to come from somewhere or rather someone as the name hints towards rat catchers are one of
The worst jobs you can have in or rather out of a castle it’s an important role you know just like being a fool or a literal walking talking toilet there needs to be a chur the rats back in those times rats and mice were the leading source of spreading disease and
These castles being big and dark there were probably a lot of them hiding black rats were a common household problem so we need to get those out so in comes the well-respected rat catcher these guys would sometimes try and use spells to get rid of the rats wasn’t always
Helpful wouldn’t work more often the KN didn’t work so poison powders were the next main trick here also the pi Piper he was an OG historically he would do a musical number to exterminate your pets if anything he should be getting a bonus any Rat catcher actually today or back
In the Dark Ages you deserve a bonus my friend you’re a brave Soul
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