Blood Eagle - History's Most BRUTAL Execution Method?

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  • Опубликовано: 15 дек 2024

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  • @TheFortress
    @TheFortress  2 года назад +12

    Do you think the Blood Eagle was performed or was it propaganda? Comment below!

    • @MegaJackpinesavage
      @MegaJackpinesavage 2 года назад +4

      I imagine the visceral effects of warfare involving swords & axes inspired a whole smorgasbord of frightful torments and agonies --- uffda! --- so I say "ja", rare, though plausible.

    • @curtrn
      @curtrn 2 года назад +9

      I have been a medical professional for over 30 years. People can hardly sit still today without a cellphone or a handful of pain pills. I can't imagine the restraint it would take to keep the body still enough to perform such a procedure. I'm sure the bilateral Pneumothorax would render the victim unconscious , but it does require a very good skill set to break the ribs at the thickest place, closest to the spine. Also splitting the sternum centerline for maximum rib spreading to properly honor the god is VERY QUESTIONABLE . I'm going with some seriously butcher, hack job ! No " surgical " procedures here folks. My ruling , massive propaganda amplified on steroids for spreading fear. I'm sure these butchers did their best but those wings were mostly skin, muscle and lungs. Now as for fear, oh yeah ! If I thought these guys were coming to my town ? I would have my bags and family packed and gone.

    • @jadesmith6823
      @jadesmith6823 2 года назад

      They loved it 🙏🙌

    • @daneaxe6465
      @daneaxe6465 2 года назад +1

      It was definitely performed and a lot more often than has been recorded. How do you think the Vikings figured out how to do it? It developed over time. See my stand alone post for a different variation of the Blood Eagle.

    • @makeupboss3568
      @makeupboss3568 2 года назад

      ABSOLUTELY ! I “ believe “ it was performed. The definition of propaganda is more used to describe a way of making a point . Like when Hitler said that the “ typical “ German should be fair haired with blue eyes …( yet he had dark chestnut brown hair and blue eyes .. ) just a way to make an example of technical “ propaganda “ .

  • @michaeltuz608
    @michaeltuz608 2 года назад +71

    It seems there is no limit to the level of sadistic cruelty that humans can inflict upon one another...

    • @the_rover1
      @the_rover1 2 года назад +5

      *laughs in covid plandemic*

    • @jackiereynolds2888
      @jackiereynolds2888 2 года назад +7

      Almost right Mike.
      Simply remove the two words which begin your comment, - "There seems..."
      Frightening and stomach turning it may well be -
      "There IS no limit".

    • @scottessery100
      @scottessery100 2 года назад +2

      Didn’t the french pull a person apart with 4 horses 🐴 until one day they couldn’t and then considered too barbaric?

    • @jasonhanks8258
      @jasonhanks8258 2 года назад +1

      Soooooo profound. Were you just birthed,??

    • @4pmpm114
      @4pmpm114 2 года назад +1

      Even God had enough of our cruelty. Tried to drown us.
      He'll do it again, we are not learning.

  • @bbsaid218
    @bbsaid218 2 года назад +40

    Pretty sure the lungs can only be inflated within a sealed chest cavity, with the diaphragm pulling down. As soon as the chest cavity is opened the lungs could not be inflated by that person and would just lie there like a couple of deflated bagpipes. So death would be by suffocating and would be fairly quick, plus the massive blood loss, so the person would be unconscious within a minute or so..probably.

    • @scottessery100
      @scottessery100 2 года назад +5

      I was thinking that after a sat job at a butchers hacking through bones (ribs) wouldn’t allow the victim to be alive long
      Surgeons use rib cutters akin to garden secetures to cut ribs in open heart ❤️ surgery

    • @noggintube
      @noggintube 2 года назад +8

      Yeah if the chest cavity is punctured any attempt to inflate lungs will just pull in air through the wound (punctured lung). If this was a thing, the victim wouldn't survive long and it would be more for display.

  • @curtrn
    @curtrn 2 года назад +25

    I have been a medical professional for over 30 years. People can hardly sit still today without a cellphone or a handful of pain pills. I can't imagine the restraint it would take to keep the body still enough to perform such a procedure. I'm sure the bilateral Pneumothorax would render the victim unconscious , but it does require a very good skill set to break the ribs at the thickest place, closest to the spine. Also splitting the sternum centerline for maximum rib spreading to properly honor the god is VERY QUESTIONABLE . I'm going with some seriously butcher, hack job ! No " surgical " procedures here folks. My ruling massive propaganda amplified on steroids for spreading fear. I'm sure these butchers did their best but those wings were mostly skin, muscle and lungs. Now as for fear, oh yeah ! If I thought these guys were coming to my town ? I would have my bags and family packed and gone.

    • @daneaxe6465
      @daneaxe6465 2 года назад +2

      See my stand alone post for a different method.

    • @nobody5867
      @nobody5867 2 года назад +1

      People can't sit still without pills or a cell phone says a real doctor or a boomer comic. "Kids these days need pills or a cell phone" is the beginning of the worst comedy special ever.

    • @darkclaws1234567891
      @darkclaws1234567891 15 дней назад

      I have 2 conditions called adhd and autism of course I can't sit still and adhd pills would make me go into a psychosis
      At least I can sit still with thc and my phone

  • @richardmurphy8350
    @richardmurphy8350 2 года назад +7

    As soon as the thoracic cavity is penetrated you create a pneumothorax, the victim would be unable to breathe and die rapidly. I’m sure it would still be very painful up until that point.

  • @daleeck4202
    @daleeck4202 2 года назад +11

    There is an excellent paper recently published on the Blood Eagle. It is titled "An Anatomy of the Blood Eagle: The Practicalities of Viking Torture". A most complete examination of this type of torture/execution.

  • @theliberalrepublican
    @theliberalrepublican 2 года назад +7

    It seems to me that once you start chopping off the ribs from the spinal column, the victim would be unconscious, and therefore, unable to excite the crowd with their pain. This method might be very painful, but also very swift.

  • @ambreeniram2268
    @ambreeniram2268 2 года назад +3

    It's too brutal and bloody. People were truly ruthless back then. I can't even imagine the plight of the victim.

  • @johnwright291
    @johnwright291 2 года назад +5

    One horrible execution method that was definitely used was that they had a statue of a brass bull with a trap door and the victim was forced inside and the door closed and a fire was built underneath.

  • @arvid978
    @arvid978 2 года назад +14

    The blood eagle - blod ørnen - is still in use here in Norway. In fact it's looked upon as one of our mildest form of punishment.

    • @thegrimreaper1991
      @thegrimreaper1991 2 года назад +3

      I don’t believe it….

    • @DarthAlexious
      @DarthAlexious 2 года назад

      @@thegrimreaper1991 you rlly shouldn't XD

    • @daxbertumen8090
      @daxbertumen8090 2 года назад +3

      yeah for a country who houses their criminals in air conditioned apartments i can see the sarcasm lol

    • @ac8907
      @ac8907 2 года назад

      NPK. 😱👎

  • @edwardosborne2427
    @edwardosborne2427 2 года назад +5

    Saw this on the series the Vikings thank you for this information.

    • @pizzatime8361
      @pizzatime8361 2 года назад +2

      Man I wish I could watch that for the first time again

    • @makeupboss3568
      @makeupboss3568 2 года назад

      I started watching this and then I got a job that put me in bed much earlier. I got lost and now I wish I could get it on box set . Just to see how they performed this ritual.

    • @the_rover1
      @the_rover1 2 года назад +1

      @@pizzatime8361 how the lil piggies will grunt, when they hear how the old boar suffered.

    • @the_rover1
      @the_rover1 2 года назад

      @@makeupboss3568
      blood eagle on jarl borg, who tried to play ragnar and lost the battle against him decisively. he was sentenced to death by blood eagle to be given chance to go to valhalla.
      ruclips.net/video/lwKKCW3LET0/видео.html
      the other one is blood eagle on king aella of northumbria, as a revenge by ragnars sons on king aelle, who took part in ragnar's death in the snake pit.
      ruclips.net/video/ZwV3Y9GjOAQ/видео.html

  • @cliffnelson1174
    @cliffnelson1174 Год назад +1

    Good deterrent to a lot of modern crimes.....I am from Viking Heritage so this is kinda cool.

  • @brandonnicholls8073
    @brandonnicholls8073 2 года назад +1

    Very Interesting,l really love your Channel..🏰🇬🇧

  • @storytimewithunclebill1998
    @storytimewithunclebill1998 2 года назад +1

    Crazy that someone thought that was a good idea for anything. Seems like a lot of work and had to be painful. Was interesting to watch. Great video

  • @stevefox8605
    @stevefox8605 2 года назад +17

    Brutal, but fair enough- if someone had murdered a close family member I'm sure most folks would do this to the murderer if they could. Good video, thank you 👍🏻👍🏻

    • @nobody5867
      @nobody5867 2 года назад +1

      Yea eye for an eye and stuff. Who wouldn't want to head to work and get coffee and pass by the hundreds of mutilated people along the way. Utopia.

    • @nobody5867
      @nobody5867 2 года назад

      @The Yorkshireman Reacts did you seriously just spend more than half a Comment EXPLAINING your joke? You are a dildo (a sex toy).

    • @nobody5867
      @nobody5867 2 года назад

      @The Yorkshireman Reacts i know what it means in england everyone knows. over here fanny is a word 5 year olds use when there parents tell them to stop saying "butt". We also say "trunk" instead of "boot" and "elevator" instead of "lift". Did you know that? Places are fun.

  • @barsnack7999
    @barsnack7999 2 года назад +6

    Pretty sure this story is just a legend. People would die way earlier.

    • @fredwilliams748
      @fredwilliams748 6 месяцев назад

      lol just because people died early doesn’t mean they weren’t being executed as well

  • @scottwexlin6456
    @scottwexlin6456 2 года назад +7

    You should do one of these on the torture and execution methods that the Comanche People of the American West used. Makes Tudor England, and the Spanish Inquisition look like amateurs. Brutal.

    • @disgustedvet9528
      @disgustedvet9528 2 года назад +3

      Never happen as it sullies the Noble Savage mantra .

    • @skwalka6372
      @skwalka6372 2 года назад

      Even more cruel was the way Americans killed over two million Vietnamese by burning them alive with NAPALM. This is seldom mentioned and most Americans seem not to know much about it.
      Also, the lynchings of American blacks by middle class whites during the first half of the XX century would be an interesting topic. The black person would be hanged, then the body barbecued and exposed to the cheering crowd, which included small children taken by their parents to watch the spectacle.

    • @anhedonianepiphany5588
      @anhedonianepiphany5588 2 года назад

      @@disgustedvet9528 This is true of almost every European -colonised- _(sorry)_ invaded nation, if not all. I would love to go into specifics, but my comment would likely vanish.

  • @bossdog1480
    @bossdog1480 2 года назад +2

    There was another execution the Vikings used. I can't remember what it was called, Viking's revenge maybe? The victim was tied down face up, the abdomen was sliced open and all the intestines were pulled out and dumped on the victim's chest. People died in around half an hour, more if they were strong.

  • @ActiveAussie2024
    @ActiveAussie2024 2 года назад +3

    May have really happened, but probably not often. And the victim would have died quickly.
    If you think about some of the tortures that occurred in the 13 th to 18 th centuries ( they really did happen) it's not impossible to think such cruelty occurred in the Viking era.

  • @Beesareessential
    @Beesareessential Год назад +2

    I cant even imagine the pain

  • @drjprice
    @drjprice 2 года назад +1

    Good video

  • @lyndaoneill7813
    @lyndaoneill7813 2 года назад +5

    I always wonder what sort of minds think up these horrors to inflict on other humans?Perhaps we are the animals and so called animals are the decent ones.This is absolutely revolting if true.

  • @TheHarrip
    @TheHarrip 2 года назад +1

    I'm loving this channel how many more odd thing do humans do?

    • @jplonsdale7242
      @jplonsdale7242 2 года назад

      When it comes to cruelty we are limitless. But people enjoy being/acting like dogs 🐕 some enjoy being human furniture, some drink women's urine out of a tall glass while eating dinner. Heck in the past people would do surgery on their child's head and brain to make them grow up with an elongated head because it was trendy. You could think of the strangest most bizarre thing and someone out there will be doing it

  • @daneaxe6465
    @daneaxe6465 2 года назад +5

    Some years ago I can across a different description of how the Blood Eagle was performed by Vikings. A slice was made across the abdomen just below the ribs, then the diaphram was cut. Then the executioner would reach, under the sternum, to grab the windpipe and in a powerful rip, pull the lungs out through the abdominal slice. The lungs would lay on the victim's abs like a set of wings.
    An experienced person could perform this in a matter of seconds.

    • @jplonsdale7242
      @jplonsdale7242 2 года назад

      Amazing how different cultures separated and have never met would come up with this exact same idea

    • @daneaxe6465
      @daneaxe6465 2 года назад +3

      @@jplonsdale7242 My description above is a Viking account or came from a witness. I came across it pre-internet so no links. I've not seen accounts of other cultures describing it the same way.
      The Aztec would rip out the heart but that was a totally different ritual.

    • @dennispickard7743
      @dennispickard7743 2 года назад

      Dane Axe actually- it would be a great cure for a hangover 😈

  • @melvert33
    @melvert33 2 года назад +2

    Regarding about it being propaganda or not I reckon if it was talked about and known at the time you can guarantee some brutal Vikings tried it!

  • @arrangrant6037
    @arrangrant6037 2 года назад +2

    I remember first hearing about the Blood 🩸 Eagle 🦅 as a teenager watching Michael Wood’s excellent in Search of the Dark Ages series. In the programme on Alfred the Great Wood states that it was carried out on both the King of Northumbria and the King of the East Anglia in the 9th Century 👍

    • @robogreek3157
      @robogreek3157 2 года назад

      Ha ha... You said wood... Ha ha - beavis and butthead

  • @simonmcnicholas
    @simonmcnicholas 2 года назад +4

    RIP Jarl Borg gone but not forgotten

  • @viperexpress305
    @viperexpress305 2 года назад +4

    Sick people !!! 😵😵😵

    • @makeupboss3568
      @makeupboss3568 2 года назад +1

      Indeed. These people are part of my family ancestry, I have Scandinavian… ( Viking blood ) running through my veins. But I gotta admit … quite “ SICK “ 😵

  • @tomkus333
    @tomkus333 Год назад

    The incredible punishment with the intestines is also mentioned in the literature in the annals of the civil war in Russia, even in the elaborate form of nailing the intestines to a tree and shooting the convicts under their feet and whipping them...I think also in Sholokhov's case. In addition, literary echoes...I think Breton: "there is no greater cruelty than Russian cruelty"---I don't know now, maybe it's a quote from Gide. Tom

  • @colinmcgregor6384
    @colinmcgregor6384 2 года назад +1

    I have seen a tv documentary that this is false because your lungs collapse into nothing when the chest is opened. Think how you are in agony if you puncture a lung.
    As usual really enjoy the channel another thought provoking piece
    By the way my execution he'll would have been to be flogged around the fleet - death by up to 200+ lashes of the cat. A swift encounter with the guillotine would be the best way to go.

    • @ac8907
      @ac8907 2 года назад

      Colin McGregor.
      The guillotine has been created in order to kill someone not painfully.

  • @sanjosemike3137
    @sanjosemike3137 2 года назад

    It would take a level of surgical skills to detach each posterior rib from the spinal cord. I would otherwise assume that the axe would be used as the "bludgeon" to hack away the connections. During that process, it is likely that the victim would go into hypovolemic shock, well before the ribs were split and pulled to an "open" position. By the time the thorax was opened to get access to the lungs, the victim was no longer breathing because inflation of the lungs would be impossible. We assume that this method would cause unbelievable pain.
    However, I don't think the pain would last long, perhaps about 3-5 minutes before shock intervened. Crucifixion would be even worse, because shock would not always intervene immediately.
    Sanjosemike (no longer in CA)
    Retired surgeon

  • @kirkmorrison6131
    @kirkmorrison6131 2 года назад +1

    I think it happened, as it was done as a sacrifice to Oden and a practical way to get rid of an enemies

  • @sayagarapan1686
    @sayagarapan1686 2 года назад +4

    That's not so bad. Try stubbing your toe. Or paper cut, that's a horrible one.

  • @GlaziolaNacht
    @GlaziolaNacht 2 года назад

    *Enter “Blood Eagle Wings” by the band Anthrax*
    But in all seriousness, I believe that this method of execution was indeed used by the Vikings, no I don’t have any evidence to support my claim, it’s just something I believe in

  • @HellNation
    @HellNation 2 года назад +1

    There is a horror movie, Midsommar, about a cult on Sweden. I'm just going to leave this: Blood Eagle. Just that.

  • @joroche2948
    @joroche2948 2 года назад +3

    Hannibal lector did this in silence of the lambs

  • @MegaJackpinesavage
    @MegaJackpinesavage 2 года назад +2

    Ari Astor's recent horror flick "Midsommar" depicts a blood eagle meted out in a New Age Swedish commune along with a few other neo-pagan modes of sacrifice FYI --- just sayin'....

  • @jackiereynolds2888
    @jackiereynolds2888 2 года назад +1

    In view of our efforts at treating everyone in a humane manner, in the name of humanity, - henceforth molesters and murderers of children will ALL be eliminated only by way of the mercy given by the Blood Eagle.
    And may God have mercy on your soul, -
    because NO ONE else does.

  • @pizzatime8361
    @pizzatime8361 2 года назад

    A Viking series would be dope 🔥

    • @kellyr3179
      @kellyr3179 2 года назад

      Blood Eagle happens in Vikings History

    • @pizzatime8361
      @pizzatime8361 2 года назад

      @@kellyr3179 I meant him making more videos on Viking history 😐

    • @kellyr3179
      @kellyr3179 2 года назад +1

      @@pizzatime8361 ohh gotcha! agree lol

  • @davidk7212
    @davidk7212 2 года назад

    Do one on flaying alive.

  • @the_rover1
    @the_rover1 2 года назад

    jarl borg apparently made it into valhalla. on the other hand, king aelle of northumbria cried like a piggy on a stake. unpleasant to watch.

  • @dante8739
    @dante8739 2 года назад

    You cant bear the pain of an operation of bybass.. just imagine this

  • @DaleDix
    @DaleDix 2 года назад

    Humans are the first animals who are aware of what they are doing. Our barbarism could be said to prove that nature mutated incorrectly or that creationism supports God being responsible for unspeakable evil. Either way, good video series.

  • @Olebull93
    @Olebull93 2 года назад

    TBH Hanged, drawn and quartered sounds a lot worse.

  • @ix-Xafra
    @ix-Xafra 2 года назад

    Aren't the Valkaries supposed to perform this ritual every sundown in Valhalla to those fortunate enough to enter the hallowed afterlife?

  • @laughingrightback
    @laughingrightback 2 года назад +1

    What the hell was wrong with these people?

  • @makeupboss3568
    @makeupboss3568 2 года назад

    Geez ! That’s brutal if I do say so myself. I think it’s far worse than a Native American Indian “ scalping “ . I’m a small percentage Scandinavian… this is part of my ancient Viking ancestry. Not sure my husband would agree , ( he’s the NAI …. ) - by far this thing called the Blood Eagle is just horrifying. I’m not exactly squeamish with stuff like that , I watch a lot of True Crime stuff . This I must admit had to have been used .

  • @larrybest8691
    @larrybest8691 2 года назад +1

    Enemies were many .

  • @YouTubeViolates1A
    @YouTubeViolates1A 2 года назад

    I wish we still practiced executions like this. So many awful people who get way too many chances. Even if a murderer is reformed, they're still a murderer.

    • @the_rover1
      @the_rover1 2 года назад

      and that bastard that keyed my car just the other day!!! ☠️
      (jokes, this is jokes! I don't own a car)

  • @emzybenzey
    @emzybenzey 2 года назад +4

    I know I always say this but I do love a bit of torture!! Not giving or receiving obviously but learning about all the torture and execution methods.

    • @the_rover1
      @the_rover1 2 года назад +1

      you bloody sick bastard!
      but I know what you mean. *sigh*

  • @craigbrown7707
    @craigbrown7707 2 года назад

    Maybe (and NOT) we should practice this method on some of today's most horrific murderers just to see if it is so painful and inhumane as depicted it seems very sadistic as only the Vikings could be, It is definitely from a race of madmen.

  • @scarletharlot69
    @scarletharlot69 2 года назад +1

    is it remotely anatomically feasible?

    • @rockit3422
      @rockit3422 2 года назад +1

      I’m guessing not.

  • @robyncopeland6567
    @robyncopeland6567 2 года назад

    Wonder if the people that inflicted these tortures. Ever thought this could happen to them

  • @pamelatraves6524
    @pamelatraves6524 2 года назад +1

    Oh My Goodness, this is the worst way to kill any people. This will be giving Me nightmares!!!😟🤣👿

  • @SyriusStarMultimedia
    @SyriusStarMultimedia Год назад

    Aren’t you glad you live in the age of fast food and not the Viking blood eagle?

  • @jamesstreet228
    @jamesstreet228 Год назад +1

    Henry VIII should have been put into the Brazen Bull.

  • @larrybest8691
    @larrybest8691 2 года назад +1

    How people get so barbaric ?

  • @chinoman7234
    @chinoman7234 2 года назад +1

    I used to do this to the Vietcong

  • @larrybest8691
    @larrybest8691 2 года назад +1

    Had to be done .

  • @cleverusername9369
    @cleverusername9369 2 года назад +1

    Blood eagle: is it sadistic, unfathomably cruel, and barbaric? Yes. But is it also METAL AS FUCK? 100% yes 🤟

  • @FredPilcher
    @FredPilcher Год назад

    Propaganda. Once the chest cavity was pierced, the victim could no longer breath and would asphyxiate.

  • @dickrichardson1139
    @dickrichardson1139 2 года назад

    Torture or execution?
    Am confused@!?

    • @daneaxe6465
      @daneaxe6465 2 года назад +1

      Its a fine line. Torture is using pain to extract information. Execution is just that. Many torture methods could cause you to die if carried out longer or with more effort.

    • @dickrichardson1139
      @dickrichardson1139 2 года назад

      Just trying to clarify because alot of these executions are through torture not just a quick
      Guillitene or hanging, thats all

    • @bikeny
      @bikeny 2 года назад

      @@dickrichardson1139 Having just watched MARATHON MAN a little while ago this evening, simple dentistry tools can torture quite well. "Is it safe?"

    • @dickrichardson1139
      @dickrichardson1139 2 года назад +1

      Torture is relative.dentist drill is torture.For the info extraction point is noted.
      When the goal is prolonged suffering...

  • @larrybest8691
    @larrybest8691 2 года назад

    Saw this kind of cruelty to .

  • @jozefserf2024
    @jozefserf2024 2 года назад

    Small potatoes compared to what big pharma have done in their lust for lucre.

  • @einareinarsson8662
    @einareinarsson8662 2 года назад

    Haha. Haha 😂 Thats how they treated swines and enemies. And Floki. You got to love Floki that nice savage man. The back slit open and lungs poured out like wings. 👌👏🥳 This is the true nature of man. Not to play stupid games against those guys. This is what we are. A survival agent fighting WITH natural selection. Modern laws are bullshit. Its unnatural. This is natural for humans. A qonquerer. Wealth and woman belongs to him as the stronger man.

  • @tonyloechte9994
    @tonyloechte9994 2 года назад

    Nothing is impossible.

    • @anhedonianepiphany5588
      @anhedonianepiphany5588 2 года назад +1

      Then, by all means, please enjoy your picnic on the surface of the _Sun._

  • @takamr.2534
    @takamr.2534 2 года назад

    恥めまして、日本語です。Hannibal映画で 見た事ありんす。あでおす(^^)/

  • @conormilroy6396
    @conormilroy6396 2 года назад

    ROCK FLAG AND EAGLLLLLE

  • @Ferotavish
    @Ferotavish 2 года назад

    Huh, sounds like a fitting punishment for our current political class.
    They should take heed!

  • @RobinBassett
    @RobinBassett 2 года назад

    Yuk! (That is all!)

  • @uzithedreadpoet6777
    @uzithedreadpoet6777 2 года назад

    😬

  • @AdamWalkerBNP
    @AdamWalkerBNP 2 года назад +4

    Maybe we could test it's effectiveness on those in Westminster who voted for the life destroying Convid1984 restrictions.

    • @the_rover1
      @the_rover1 2 года назад

      let's not forget about these motherf🦆ckers that send billions of money and weapons towards ukraine rn...

    • @anhedonianepiphany5588
      @anhedonianepiphany5588 2 года назад

      Just double-up on your daily ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, and leave the rest of us be.

  • @jadesmith6823
    @jadesmith6823 2 года назад

    😳

  • @1aikane
    @1aikane 2 года назад

    Hideous

  • @iwantsomecookies08
    @iwantsomecookies08 2 года назад

    noice.