A 'Hilarious' Compilation of Inaccurate Medieval Beliefs…

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    In 2016 the English theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking said, “We spend a great deal of time studying history, which, let’s face it, is mostly the history of stupidity”. During the Middle Ages people put their faith in things that we now know to be complete nonsense. Here we are going to take a look at some of those outrageous beliefs. Welcome to Medieval Madness.
    0:00 Introduction
    2:16 Water Dragons
    4:27 The Wandering Womb
    6:07 To Sin or Not to Sin
    6:36 The Sky Ocean
    8:02 The Pest Maiden
    9:17 Physiognomy
    10:52 The Beavers and the Bees
    🎶🎶 Music by CO.AG: / @co.agmusic
    Narrated by James Wade
    Written by Lisa E Rawcliffe
    Edited by James Wade
    Thank you for watching.
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    Copyright © 2022 Top5s All rights reserved. In this video, we've compiled information from a variety of sources, including documentaries, books, and websites, all with the aim of providing an engaging viewing experience. While we strive to ensure accuracy, we acknowledge that there may be variations in the authenticity of the content. We encourage viewers to delve deeper and conduct their own research to corroborate the information presented.

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  • @medievalmadnesss
    @medievalmadnesss  Год назад +33

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    • @brianoneil9662
      @brianoneil9662 Год назад +1

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    • @danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307
      @danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 Год назад +1

      The theory of modern warfare for hundreds and hundreds of years was You need to charge in to battle bravely and we will win! We lost because where did charge in bravely enuff! 🤦‍♂🤣

    • @danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307
      @danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307 Год назад

      06:45 sky ocean from the BUYBULLS ignorant teachings!

    • @kungfutzu3779
      @kungfutzu3779 Год назад

      that frau aint so jung

    • @Noct343
      @Noct343 Год назад

      These beliefs were symbolic, something doesn't have to be true or false, to be considered accurate. Myths are a big part of history, and myths and legends have a beauty and a spark that humans have lost in modern times, modernization killed the human spirit and people call these things blatantly false. That was the beauty of medieval culture, each of these beliefs and Gods was an aspect of nature, its beauty and art that you will never understand. Stephen Hawkings was dead on the inside, so it's no surprise.

  • @alexisasheep6554
    @alexisasheep6554 Год назад +426

    There's plenty of things the future generations are gonna laugh at us for too, that's just the power of hindsight and making fun of the past. And they'll get laughed at by the generations after them. It just keeps going.

    • @fnumbuh
      @fnumbuh Год назад +40

      Or maybe they’ll hate and envy us because we left them with nothing 😀

    • @philcollins1255
      @philcollins1255 Год назад +2

      Like evolution.

    • @marioluigi3212
      @marioluigi3212 Год назад +8

      @@fnumbuh real

    • @StoutProper
      @StoutProper Год назад

      @@fnumbuh they already do, using their phones to complain on Twitter about our carbon footprint while they pay for video game micro transactions using bitcoin on their ps5. At their age all we did is climb trees and play football, so I can see their point.

    • @joejoslin7451
      @joejoslin7451 Год назад +36

      Many of us laugh at the people of the past, thinking we are smarter and superior to them. But we are the ones who are eating the sweet fruits of THEIR labor to enjoy the technologies and knowledge they had to discover. Without them, we too would be stuck in antiquity.

  • @joannabaparileszczynska
    @joannabaparileszczynska Год назад +137

    This is the exact reason I’m somewhat obsessed with the medieval era. Everything was so crazy

    • @amh9494
      @amh9494 Год назад

      Today you can legally change your biological sex.........

    • @ransakreject5221
      @ransakreject5221 Год назад +2

      It was like how Russia is today

    • @merlin9314
      @merlin9314 Год назад

      ​@@ransakreject5221 what???

    • @chonky2129
      @chonky2129 11 месяцев назад

      then you won't like this channel. it's mostly made up nonsense.

  • @kristiskinner8542
    @kristiskinner8542 Год назад +133

    Their beaver drawings sure do look a whole lot more like a dog than any beaver Ive ever seen lol

    • @me.ne.frego.
      @me.ne.frego. Год назад +1

      Aren't beavers from America?

    • @scragglybeard9322
      @scragglybeard9322 Год назад +16

      @@me.ne.frego. there are different subspecies of beaver. One of them is the European one.

    • @me.ne.frego.
      @me.ne.frego. Год назад

      @@scragglybeard9322 Oh I see. The canadian ones are out of control in the south of my home country, those rat-pigs are destroying entire forests, it's a disaster. But nobody does nothing because the vegans start to cry everytime someone wants to stop that madness.

    • @evangeline77x
      @evangeline77x Год назад +3

      To be totally fair all medieval drawings of animals look like dogs, regardless of the intended species (including some people who look suspiciously pug like).. I'm pretty sure most depictions from the era come from illuminated manuscripts which were painted by clergymen living ascetic lifestyles and were often depicting animals or figures from vague second and third hand descriptions. The guy probably had no idea what a beaver even was.

    • @EnchantedSmellyWolf
      @EnchantedSmellyWolf Год назад

      Looks like he is licking his cock.

  • @emiliepryor51
    @emiliepryor51 Год назад +17

    I’m sorry, I can’t make it to work today. My uterus is in my knee caps.

  • @TeatroGrotesco
    @TeatroGrotesco Год назад +187

    A lot of channels don't have an over arcing message:
    "Wash Yourself"
    Is a valid, culturally conscious, and historically learned lesson.
    Thank You

    • @sarahmelody4204
      @sarahmelody4204 Год назад +2

      Indubitably!!

    • @Promislandzion
      @Promislandzion Год назад

      I like my girls fragrent

    • @rufusblue8044
      @rufusblue8044 Год назад

      @@Promislandzion me too

    • @FaeQueenCory
      @FaeQueenCory Год назад

      Fun fact: it was only Europe that didn't bathe in the past.
      *Everywhere* else realized that bathing should happen regularly.
      It's also the origin of the cope about Americans believing Europeans were gods. (We never did, and never would.)

  • @MFLimited
    @MFLimited Год назад +78

    But (yes I am that guy) “physiognomy” was onto something! Genetic syndrome screening by facial recognition technology is really a thing!
    Fetal alcohol syndrome, Down syndrome, Williams syndrome, kabuki syndrome, Treacher-Collins, Noonan syndrome, and the list goes on, can be identified by facial features. In the case of genetic abnormalities, people with mild cases or who are carriers of these abnormalities may have some of these features.

    • @Saffron-sugar
      @Saffron-sugar Год назад +8

      That’s true. If you can identify a neurological or genetic abnormality in somebody’s face, that can give an understanding to their behaviour.

    • @tosgem
      @tosgem Год назад +6

      There have been experiments where men can predict the promiscuity of women by looking at photos of faces. Not 100% accurate but far greater accuracy than random selection. I think people were also able to discern laziness and work ethic. This is not something anyone is taught, it's some instinct most people have.

    • @norml.hugh-mann
      @norml.hugh-mann Год назад

      Pseudoscience garbage

    • @drpavel_
      @drpavel_ Год назад

      “Gay face” is a real thing

  • @Wormweed
    @Wormweed Год назад +53

    "hello doctor, i'm not feeling well, can i have a genital massage please?" not sure if it's genius or disturbing

  • @puppetguy8726
    @puppetguy8726 Год назад +33

    I think it's interesting that people used to think bestiality would result in a half man half beast creature being born. Also weird how that didn't discourage some people from bestiality...

    • @bloodleader5
      @bloodleader5 Год назад +8

      Wouldn't you want a centaur son?

    • @manuelredgrave8348
      @manuelredgrave8348 Год назад +4

      Ancient furries trying to create irl anthros

    • @norml.hugh-mann
      @norml.hugh-mann Год назад +1

      Beastiality has never been all that common of practice but something to joke about instead.

    • @puppetguy8726
      @puppetguy8726 Год назад +4

      @@norml.hugh-mann You're not from the countryside are you? 😉

  • @ItsLunaRegina
    @ItsLunaRegina Год назад +137

    This video is a good reminder that we don't know everything and are probably wrong about many things today.

    • @curiodyssey3867
      @curiodyssey3867 Год назад +8

      Nah, not possible. We know everything there is to know. we have become infallible

    • @Poodleinacan
      @Poodleinacan Год назад +4

      @@curiodyssey3867 We surpassed God!

    • @midnightchurningspriteshaq8533
      @midnightchurningspriteshaq8533 Год назад +1

      @@Poodleinacan Tupac is still alive ask illuminati

    • @Dominik-bl9sw
      @Dominik-bl9sw Год назад +1

      We are already going back the road by denying basic biology.

    • @Indecisive4734
      @Indecisive4734 Год назад +6

      @@midnightchurningspriteshaq8533 "We laugh at people with less advanced technology, shunning their beliefs, yet even today it is so easy to brainwash one into thinking complete lies." -James Elmore, 11/24/2022

  • @elizabethbarringer2791
    @elizabethbarringer2791 Год назад +23

    An amazing fact as many hunters as there are in the universe and have been in the past that the beaver is not extinct. He is definitely one tough nut

    • @jayssongreenfield
      @jayssongreenfield Год назад +6

      They came very close to being extinct. Now they are illegal to hunt unless you have a special trapping license of which there is few, and only a set number. Here in Canada anyway 🙂

    • @BeetleBuns
      @BeetleBuns Год назад +1

      @@jayssongreenfield in the US they're very common again, and commonly trapped, mostly when they start causing property damage.

    • @daneaxe6465
      @daneaxe6465 Год назад +1

      They are not rare in South Dakota, to the point State Trappers from Game,Fish & Parks have to trap/kill them and blow up their dams.

    • @elizabethbarringer2791
      @elizabethbarringer2791 Год назад +1

      @@jayssongreenfield I have never seen a beaver in the wild though I have been told that they're really making a strong comeback and that they are damaging a lot of the trees and damming up the waterways here in Texas
      I am not a hunter so I do not know the rules I would never hurt any of the woodland creatures. Fin feathered or furry get instant respect .

    • @norml.hugh-mann
      @norml.hugh-mann Год назад

      @@elizabethbarringer2791 often industries that consume more water than allowed will claim beavers have dammed up the river or some other excuse.
      Beavers were so nearly extinct in Europe that extensive management was needed and yeah, they are still really rare anywhere in North America compared to how many there were before 300 years of unlimited trapping for export and habitat loss more recently. I really hope us humans end our species assault on the planet and our infestation of it ends and maybe our planet will have time for an actual intelligent species to evolbe

  • @erinhall1808
    @erinhall1808 Год назад +9

    I don't believe any of these artists have ever actually seen a beaver.

  • @katrinakeith8066
    @katrinakeith8066 Год назад +19

    Ahh yes, the ol beaver escape method 😂

    • @michealturner9498
      @michealturner9498 Год назад

      Yup, it's been a while since I've heard of this bit of folklore. Beavers can only be reliably sexed with a blood test (or highly invasive prodding of their cloacas according to the website I'm now reading).

  • @ButterBallTheOpossum
    @ButterBallTheOpossum Год назад +45

    I thought the villains with scars trope was from ww2. German officers regularly participated in sword duels in school and many of them got horrific facial scars as a result.

    • @PSDuck216
      @PSDuck216 Год назад +15

      They were called “Heidelberg Scars.”

    • @Morsa.B.Alto1
      @Morsa.B.Alto1 Год назад +3

      No, disfigurement has long been thought to physically represent characteristics of a humans personality by the superstitious.

    • @norml.hugh-mann
      @norml.hugh-mann Год назад

      Scars were already much less common when the cowards that murdered women and kids in Europe thought scarring themselves would make them look less like pussies. Historically scars were more common long ago before the modern medical industry mastered stitches.

  • @bartholomewesperanza3442
    @bartholomewesperanza3442 Год назад +59

    They didn’t actually believe a beaver would castrate itself when a hunter comes near. That story was meant to teach people a lesson. The lesson is to cut off all sin from your life so that when the Devil comes for you, you can show him you have nothing for him. It’s not meant to be taken literally, nothing in medieval bestiaries are.

    • @bilis2866
      @bilis2866 Год назад +4

      were u there?

    • @DansuB4nsu03
      @DansuB4nsu03 Год назад +18

      @@bilis2866 That's... Not the point. His point was the beaver story should be taken as a METAPHOR, and NOT as literal fact. Just like many other medieval stories. Him being or not being there to prove things (even if it is physically impossible since we don't have time travel) doesn't change the fact that the stories should still be interpreted as stories.

    • @bilis2866
      @bilis2866 Год назад +6

      @@DansuB4nsu03 hes saying ppl didn't take stories like this seriously, I bet many did and many didn't

    • @keishasoto23
      @keishasoto23 Год назад +3

      @@DansuB4nsu03 were you there?

    • @JohnDarksoul69
      @JohnDarksoul69 Год назад +2

      @@bilis2866 yeah prolly. even today that still happens all the time despite all the information and facts readily available

  • @BeeLZBeeb
    @BeeLZBeeb Год назад +71

    I can’t keep up with my womb, it’s always turning up in my armpit, mooching behind my left knee, I never know when it will turn up next 🙄
    Last week it just popped up through my nose and took over my zoom meeting.
    Honestly it’s not wandering, it’s plotting. I’ll keep it in as long as I can but one day it might go on a sperm rampage.
    Forewarned is forearmed and all that..

    • @WolfingtonStanley
      @WolfingtonStanley Год назад +13

      I now have an image of a womb hiding in the shadows awaiting its next victim, I shall have to use the beaver escape method

    • @Poodleinacan
      @Poodleinacan Год назад +6

      Don't worry, I'll save you from this aweful state.

    • @mcpartridgeboy
      @mcpartridgeboy Год назад +1

      My ex always got a bad womb after mixing her drinks and smoking weed on an empty tummy !

    • @Spingerex
      @Spingerex Год назад +1

      Lol

  • @Space.Oddity666
    @Space.Oddity666 Год назад +43

    OMG I can't believe you mentioned Willem Van Rubroeck!!! He's not well known, but his detailed written account of the Mongolians have been extremely valuable

  • @myfrestuff3453
    @myfrestuff3453 Год назад +6

    "The Middle Ages were magic!" - Caitlin Doughty

  • @BiglerSakura
    @BiglerSakura Год назад +54

    4:27 - The word "hysteria" itself originates from that belief:
    Hysteria - from Ancient Greek ὑστερικός (husterikós, “suffering in the uterus, hysterical”), from ὑστέρα (hustéra, “womb”)

    • @StoutProper
      @StoutProper Год назад +7

      It’s just the symptoms of not having an orgasms

    • @kristiskinner8542
      @kristiskinner8542 Год назад +6

      @@StoutProper no it is definately not

    • @Periwinkleaccount
      @Periwinkleaccount Год назад +1

      @@kristiskinner8542 missed the point.

    • @StoutProper
      @StoutProper Год назад

      @be bd don’t be daft

    • @StoutProper
      @StoutProper Год назад

      @@kristiskinner8542 it absolutely is. As a man of experience, I know

  • @ernestweaver9720
    @ernestweaver9720 Год назад +4

    It's totally amazing that I am alive. How my ancestors survived is completely bewildering.

  • @vampsith
    @vampsith Год назад +9

    The sky ocean would make a great experimental cartoon, a la Book of Kells

  • @phinhnanthasone1231
    @phinhnanthasone1231 Год назад +29

    There always will be people believing the most outlandish theories

  • @cw4608
    @cw4608 Год назад +85

    I am guessing wandering wieners caused more problems than a wandering womb. Wayward wombs, now that’s different.

  • @herrgodfrey9563
    @herrgodfrey9563 Год назад +18

    I don't think people in the past were stupid in the least. Ignorant, sure but certainly not stupid. Even the rates of illiteracy in the middle ages were MASSIVELY exaggerated. We need to do our best to place ourselves in the time in which our ancestors lived before we pass judgment.

    • @thekingshussar1808
      @thekingshussar1808 Год назад +7

      True. The Medieval Age is largely scrutinised or even defamed by notorious Renaissance and Enlightenment propagandists due to the amount of influence the Church had despite it having achieved great scientific and philosophical feats as seen from Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, Roger Bacon, and many more

    • @mcpartridgeboy
      @mcpartridgeboy Год назад

      For sure if everyone here was born then, we too would believe most of this and if they were born now reading yt they would be saying how dumb we are, there is probably a very slight increase in our newborns intelligence over medievil newborns intelligence, but their smart new borns will still be way smarter than our stupid newborns.

    • @bigbasil1908
      @bigbasil1908 Год назад +1

      What I seem to be observing in my nearly 45 years of incarnation here is that as generations go on, they get thicker and less capable. Maybe I'm wrong, but maybe I'm right...

    • @herrgodfrey9563
      @herrgodfrey9563 Год назад +1

      @@bigbasil1908 I've only been alive a little more than half the time you have. That said, I've learned to respect and take seriously the words of my father and grandfather, my mother and grandmother. I don't expect much from life, I just want to live a bit more similar to my rural forefathers. I've garnered a love for rural living, being out in nature, and separating a little from technology. Learning to live off the land and eschewing the post-modernist hellscape we're currently living in. It seems like the world is becoming more and more soulless and cynical. Standing outside in my field and breathing the clean, country air allows me to forget about it, if just for a moment.

    • @bigbasil1908
      @bigbasil1908 Год назад

      @@herrgodfrey9563 Yes nature is very healing. I think it grounds us. In the past people spent a lot of time out on the land. I like to sit over the park knapping flint, though I'm not very good at it lol.

  • @gabedom_
    @gabedom_ Год назад +5

    10:56 - 11:08
    These days those idiotic beliefs are more popular than ever THANKS TO the internet.....

  • @viriathas9910
    @viriathas9910 Год назад +605

    We laugh at Medieval people, then believe that billionaires and corporations are looking out for us because they put a certain symbol on their internet posts.

    • @StoutProper
      @StoutProper Год назад +41

      You mean like the Ukrainian flag rather than the Syrian or Yemeni one

    • @kristiskinner8542
      @kristiskinner8542 Год назад +34

      No we dont. I damn sure dont & dont know anyone who does. There are plenty of naive ppl in the world though, so guess some that are extremely naive might buy into that

    • @heinoustentacles5719
      @heinoustentacles5719 Год назад +2

      Look up 'outer space 1992'

    • @WarlockHolmes420
      @WarlockHolmes420 Год назад +4

      Maybe you do.

    • @dsandoval9396
      @dsandoval9396 Год назад +15

      @@kristiskinner8542 I don't know about "naive", I mean yeah there are but there's also a lot of people who _choose_ to be ignorant.
      Take politics for example. I wouldn't believe any politician because I've been alive long enough to see how everyone plays "the political game" even if they (supposedly) share my views. They are only beholden to their biggest contributers. Yet there are people my age (who SHOULD be old enough to know better) and older who truly hold them on a pedestal like a literal angel heaven sent from god or their non-binary higher power.

  • @dnf7778
    @dnf7778 Год назад +24

    The beaver escape method, I gotta remember that one

    • @russellzauner
      @russellzauner Год назад +9

      wish i'd known that before i got married

    • @MalleusIudaeorum
      @MalleusIudaeorum Год назад

      @@russellzauner so does your wife

    • @gj8683
      @gj8683 Год назад +2

      Amazing, the clever things one can learn from RUclips videos

  • @kaarlimakela3413
    @kaarlimakela3413 Год назад +6

    There was a benefit to midwifery I had never considered before!
    Helping out uterine congestion and hysteria 'manually'.

    • @tiahnarodriguez3809
      @tiahnarodriguez3809 Год назад +1

      Benefit? I shuddered when my professor said we’d have to be ok with patients touching themselves and watching porn while in our care. I’d lose it if I had to actually “massage” the patient 🥲.

  • @cheezemonkeyeater
    @cheezemonkeyeater Год назад +5

    "Not having the internet, medievals often got things completely wrong."
    Oh, yes, because nobody has ever been wrong after the invention of the internet.

  • @jadedcatlady
    @jadedcatlady Год назад +2

    Learning about hyper focus was one of the things that made me realize at age 48 that I really could have ADHD. So I started reading more and sought (and got) a diagnosis. Thank you for all your videos. At 51, I am still learning how ADHD has affected and is still affecting my life. I can see many projects or other accomplishments definitely happened because of hyper focus. And learning that this brain wiring is about difficulties in regulating attention AND emotions has really helped me understand and accept myself and my quirks better. Still irritated when the family interrupts me when I’m immersed in something, though - because getting that focus back takes a while! 😂

  • @danielhooper502
    @danielhooper502 Год назад +6

    You can't judge them for not knowing what we know now, they lived with diseases we don't see on the streets and just wanted quick answers

  • @julienpento3636
    @julienpento3636 Год назад +4

    8 yo me: pee in the swimming pool
    Gengis Khan: So you have choosen... DEATH!

  • @vickiewallace415
    @vickiewallace415 Год назад +11

    I’m all about learning and the beaver escape method is awesome!!

  • @heathergentlyinthewind806
    @heathergentlyinthewind806 Год назад +7

    Doesn't sound like much has changed🤣

  • @biddyboy1570
    @biddyboy1570 Год назад +13

    I'm from the future and here to tell you guys that when it comes to hilarious beliefs, the Medieval has got nothing on you.

  • @kaloarepo288
    @kaloarepo288 Год назад +4

    Nothing beats some of the craziness in the ancient Roman writer and "scientist' Pliny.

    • @michealturner9498
      @michealturner9498 Год назад +2

      Considering that human dissection was taboo in the classical era, there was no way to actually see how things were really arranged inside the human body.

    • @JOEFABULOUS.
      @JOEFABULOUS. Год назад

      The animals and monsters he described lol

  • @greenghoul157
    @greenghoul157 Год назад +5

    That thumbnail lol medieval people could only draw memes

  • @eldaroses.g.r.7945
    @eldaroses.g.r.7945 Год назад +11

    Am I the only one who, when he mentioned people smelling the Mongols coming long before seeing them, just went “NO SHIT, SHERLOCK!”? 90% of deaths must’ve been caused by infection. Like gangrene. 😬☠️

    • @Apokalypse456
      @Apokalypse456 Год назад

      actually, 90% of deaths were violent.
      when towns didnt surrender immediately the mongols sacked them. pretty normal so far, but the mongols literally walked house to house killing anyone they found.
      up to 95% of some cities population died after being sieged.

  • @reesf743
    @reesf743 Год назад +3

    The Hawking quote at the beginning was perfect. I miss him

  • @douglasclerk2764
    @douglasclerk2764 Год назад +2

    These days we do have the internet and look at the things some people believe . . .

  • @ItsLunaRegina
    @ItsLunaRegina Год назад +15

    They weren't stupid, just ignorant.

    • @nouhorni3229
      @nouhorni3229 Год назад +9

      Yes. Hate it when people say that, because we today are not one bit more intelligent. We just know more thanks to other people's work.
      These people died doing their best, so we can live in comfort now, with the things we know.
      No hate to the channel, just some of the comments take it a bit far.

    • @joejoslin7451
      @joejoslin7451 Год назад +2

      @@nouhorni3229 Exactly. Ignorance and stupidity are two different things and it took a long time of trial and error and thinking to get to where we are. It is a bit amusing to hear old beliefs, but those people weren't stupid. Heck, how many people believe silly things today? For example, I was taught in grade school that your blood in your veins is blue. But, that is absolutely wrong and people still believe that.

    • @thekingshussar1808
      @thekingshussar1808 Год назад

      I dont think Medieval scholasticism encouraged ignorance too, many great scientific and philosophical achievements were made that succeeded the knowledge of the ancients from accomplished scholars of the time such as Albert the Great, Roger Bacon, Copernicus, etc.and even Faith and Reason was harmonised by the teachings of Thomas Aquinas. The Medieval Age in the West is often downplayed by Humanist and Enlightenment propagandists that envied the influence the Church had which itself ironically discouraged superstition until the arrival of the Black Death but also remedied from the Counter Reformation.

  • @evangeline77x
    @evangeline77x Год назад +3

    Fun fact in some south American countries capybara are also considered fish and an official papal dispensation was given to allow catholics to eat capybara and muskrats during lent..

    • @ankhpom9296
      @ankhpom9296 4 месяца назад

      How silly. But some people today think saying something makes it true. Just look at Trump and the MAGS cult.

  • @JACKSONDUNNETT
    @JACKSONDUNNETT Год назад +5

    can’t wait til we’re able to make a video like this about all world religions

    • @mcpartridgeboy
      @mcpartridgeboy Год назад

      we can and we have, watch any of dawkins videos, he isnt the greatest scientist but he is good enough to destroy religion !

  • @andydavies5879
    @andydavies5879 Год назад +4

    Am surprised you did not mention ‘Dogheads’ (ie people with the head of a dog), thought to live in the wilderness. There were even ecclesiastical debates as to whether, once encountered, they should be converted to Christianity.

  • @benchippy8039
    @benchippy8039 Год назад +5

    My wife’s proper grumpy and she’s got a hairy chest so there might be something in physiognomy

  • @JesseBrown-qf6zp
    @JesseBrown-qf6zp Год назад +61

    Ironically, the current era makes the ”stupidity” of history seem supremely rational in comparison. Apparently identifying modern superstition was beyond Hawkin’s perception.

    • @Tsumami__
      @Tsumami__ Год назад +4

      Elaborate.

    • @katherineklevenow1808
      @katherineklevenow1808 Год назад +3

      Mr. Hawking is dead so he has been spared modern stupidity

    • @JesseBrown-qf6zp
      @JesseBrown-qf6zp Год назад

      @@Tsumami__ Unsurprisingly, I’m referring here to the Marxist race and gender fantasy that was allowed to spread through Western civilization.

    • @JesseBrown-qf6zp
      @JesseBrown-qf6zp Год назад +1

      @@katherineklevenow1808 On the contrary, I’m sure he held many views which are entirely compatible with ”modern stupidity.”

    • @untroubledwaters2137
      @untroubledwaters2137 Год назад +6

      @@JesseBrown-qf6zp again. Elaborate.

  • @willb1157
    @willb1157 Год назад +6

    4:07 What and where is this amazing painting to be found? is it contemporary? It is quite incredible given the level of detail!

    • @chuckaule6292
      @chuckaule6292 Год назад +1

      idk but you could probably screenshot it, crop it and print it lol

  • @dnf7778
    @dnf7778 Год назад +2

    Best thumbnail ever

  • @AllisonLinner
    @AllisonLinner Год назад +3

    *Starts @ **2:15*

  • @toscadonna
    @toscadonna Год назад +5

    The years since 2020 have shown me that we’re in the stupidest time to be alive. The world made far more sense when we were burning witches.

  • @miguel9070
    @miguel9070 Год назад +4

    such a great channel!

  • @-Thauma-
    @-Thauma- Год назад +3

    Your channel is so underrated ,sweetheart

  • @levimaxton6307
    @levimaxton6307 Год назад +1

    things i learned from this video:
    1. wash myself
    2. use the beaver escape method

  • @Tsumami__
    @Tsumami__ Год назад +3

    Hairy hips?? What the…. Who has hairy hips???

  • @normalheadcrabterry6411
    @normalheadcrabterry6411 Год назад +2

    I’m glad I don’t live in medieval times

  • @gabelarsen4375
    @gabelarsen4375 Год назад

    This channel is sooo good! ❤️❤️🔥

  • @Psyche0delic
    @Psyche0delic Год назад +20

    Hey, Women: Let's start calling out of work due to "wandering uterus". I am sure no male boss would question it, as men are just as ignorant about and afraid of female bodies now as they were then.

    • @elusive4557
      @elusive4557 Год назад +1

      good idea lmao

    • @kristiskinner8542
      @kristiskinner8542 Год назад +4

      Yep next time I get a sore throat Im just gonna blame it on my damn wandering uterus lol

    • @heinoustentacles5719
      @heinoustentacles5719 Год назад

      Then you'll go to the Hospital for a nice and healing genital massage.

  • @justinakers3196
    @justinakers3196 Год назад

    Thanks dude

  • @lumi_project
    @lumi_project Год назад +2

    medieval era, also known as "trust me, guys" era

  • @esteemedmortal5917
    @esteemedmortal5917 Год назад

    I’m watching medieval madness, must be time to fold laundry!

  • @jeremycole1341
    @jeremycole1341 Год назад +5

    Do more on what the medieval ages was like in other countries! Like east Asian and Africa and India even what was going on the in americas maybe

    • @danf7411
      @danf7411 Год назад +6

      Medieval ages are a European thing anyway they didn't call it the middle ages anywhere else

  • @hotmilo
    @hotmilo 4 месяца назад +1

    We are the descendants of those who survived.

  • @anasevi9456
    @anasevi9456 Год назад

    classy video as always. 🤣

  • @alexg1778
    @alexg1778 2 месяца назад

    "Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow."

  • @Pinklady7529
    @Pinklady7529 Год назад

    "Meat and two veg"🤣🤣🙃 cheeky

  • @angr3819
    @angr3819 Год назад

    Thank you

  • @NinjaGrrrl7734
    @NinjaGrrrl7734 Год назад +6

    You picked up a high class sponsor, I'm quite fond of HH's youtube videos but have never bought the subscription. Because of your recommendation, I'm now considering it. Anyone here who can tell me if it really offers that much more useful and/or targeted info than I can find here?

    • @toddyurk9289
      @toddyurk9289 Год назад +3

      Yes I found it very worth it. It has lots of variety about different subjects and full length documentary's you don't find on youtube. Production quality is at a nice level and I found that the shows look just as good if not better than most of Netflix and hulu's stuff. My favorite history to watch is stuff about the Karling's and the area around the Alps, whereas my daughter really likes PreColumbian American and Renaissance stuff and we have always been able to find something that we are interested in, so it has a nice variety about things you don't see covered to death.

    • @Arterexius
      @Arterexius Год назад

      I haven't had HH yet, but the content on sites like HH is generally more in depth than what you can find here on YT. I've had both MagellanTV and Curiosity Stream and I currently have a recurring subscription to MagellanTV and Nebula, although Nebula is "just" originals made by selected RUclips creators. I hope that MedievalMadness will become one of those someday, as he's definitely on par with Tom Scott, Bright Sun Films, Wendover Productions and so on.

  • @starwave8228
    @starwave8228 Год назад +2

    Can you do a video on Tales of Heroic Animals, there must be some old tales of how a Sir Knight was rescued by his trusty steed or some quirky stories involving Animals

  • @prairierider7569
    @prairierider7569 11 месяцев назад

    Oh sweet lord, the flat earthers love the as above as below the firmament 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @Rezail_Uhhh
    @Rezail_Uhhh Год назад

    Some of this make sense. Even they knew water was precious.

  • @BigSpudz
    @BigSpudz Год назад +9

    The Inaccurate Facts we Are Led to Believe Today are Possibly MORE Hilarious than in Medieval Times. Much Love ALL From Birmingham UK.

    • @futuristica1710
      @futuristica1710 Год назад +1

      ?

    • @amh9494
      @amh9494 Год назад +1

      @@futuristica1710 did you know you can change your biological sex legally? 😁

  • @cheezemonkeyeater
    @cheezemonkeyeater Год назад +1

    You might laugh at the water dragons, but the Mongols never had to deal with cholera from contaminated drinking water, or other diseases of that nature. Strange beliefs don't come out of nowhere; they're often a justification for some practice that aids in survival in some way that the culture doesn't fully understand because they lack full knowledge of things like how disease works.

    • @amh9494
      @amh9494 Год назад

      True, superstition often works where reason fails when it comes to human behaviour.

  • @dalemoss4684
    @dalemoss4684 Год назад

    I once saw a fox trap in an antique shop, it had an old bandage wrapped around each jaw. When I asked my dad what that was for he informed me that foxes were known to chew off their foot when trapped, so trappers poured poison on the bandage as an extra measure. The beaver story put me in mind of that.

  • @roubinnick
    @roubinnick Год назад

    King, small typo in your video's title. Great vid as always.

  • @deborahberger5816
    @deborahberger5816 2 месяца назад

    How did the Mongols "ritually cleanse" a house without water?

  • @CornPop2
    @CornPop2 Год назад +1

    used the beaver method when i got married..... still get harrassed daily

  • @Ned-nw6ge
    @Ned-nw6ge Год назад +1

    Damn, and I thought that the medieval (up to early modern!) Europeans were filthy by not washing their bodies except for their teeth and hands. At least we washed our clothes lol

  • @Trebor74
    @Trebor74 Год назад

    I did read that the middle men in the spice and Silk routes told each side the same stories so they wouldn't go exploring and be able to cut them out

  • @davidoh14
    @davidoh14 Год назад

    Wash myself. Got it. Lesson learned.

  • @infinite-sadness
    @infinite-sadness 2 дня назад

    Is the song in the sin part a medieval version of “Let’s get it on”?

  • @bushbladesnbows.2378
    @bushbladesnbows.2378 Год назад +2

    Modern people: Haha medieval people stupid! We smort now!
    Also modern people: Oh I'm a sagittarius! What's your sign? I wonder if we are in the same soul pod!

  • @Grenadier311
    @Grenadier311 Год назад +2

    As far as I know, the Catholic Church discouraged superstition during the High Middle Ages. The Black Death changed this for a time, I believe, then the counter-reformation brought it back to its senses.

    • @thekingshussar1808
      @thekingshussar1808 Год назад +1

      Yes. Many great scientists, philosophers, and theologians were clerics themselves. Regression really appeared in the arrival of the Black Death. But as the Counter Reformation and Inquisition came in, it would reinforce medieval scholasticism and discouraged superstitions like witch hunts.

  • @EmeraldEyesEsoteric
    @EmeraldEyesEsoteric Год назад +4

    Well then, no more bathing for me. Can't risk offending the water dragon.
    Our modern politically correct society will just have to respect the culture.
    okay, I'm not a Mongolian, but I do eat a LOT of Mongolian Stir Fry with a LOT of Garlic.
    I also don't have any money, and only have a few clothes, which I basically never get to wash.

    • @JOEFABULOUS.
      @JOEFABULOUS. Год назад +1

      Find a clean river today to wash your clothes in most are filthy and polluted

    • @heinoustentacles5719
      @heinoustentacles5719 Год назад

      Is the stir fry good? Don't think I've ever had any.

    • @tiahnarodriguez3809
      @tiahnarodriguez3809 Год назад +1

      @@heinoustentacles5719 It’s noodles stir fried with meat, veggies and sauces of choice. It’s not bad, but not my first choice.

  • @PrincessMadeira
    @PrincessMadeira Год назад +1

    Those ideas about the Mongols sound a lot like enemy propaganda.

  • @johnyurick8785
    @johnyurick8785 Год назад

    Ignorence was highly owned 😂😂😂

  • @garywait3231
    @garywait3231 Год назад

    What a delight to endure an advert that completely overshadows the program !!! 🤔🙄😒🤔

  • @Shitlifesyndromesufferer
    @Shitlifesyndromesufferer Год назад +3

    Stephen hawking is wrong. How insulting to all of humanity past and future. Humans can be stupid and short sighted but history is the study of our own humanity. We’ve always been the same and how is that not beautiful. Our humanity is sacred, even with all its flaws.

  • @estevan9985
    @estevan9985 Год назад

    Lol beaver escape method ☠

  • @Zumbakaweabakwikwi22
    @Zumbakaweabakwikwi22 Год назад

    imma use the beaver escape method if i get confronted by a mugger on the streets

  • @daguppz7945
    @daguppz7945 Год назад

    Today i learnt there are beavers in europe. I thought they were exlcusive to the americas.

  • @spicyroads
    @spicyroads Год назад

    Beaver glands are still used today for perfume

  • @ImTheCrew
    @ImTheCrew Год назад +4

    Watch later! Thanks

  • @SuperMrHiggins
    @SuperMrHiggins Год назад +2

    I will say... and I never thought I would say anything like this - Hawking seemed very ignorant or may I dare say - idiotic with that opening statement. It's not now the history of stupidity and ignorance, it's the history of human psychology. Awesome video though, and apologies to Hawking's memory.

    • @heinoustentacles5719
      @heinoustentacles5719 Год назад +1

      Hawking's specialty was physics. It's foolish to assume he was a genius anywhere else. People get famous for one thing and everybody thinks they're an authority on every topic.

    • @amh9494
      @amh9494 Год назад

      Physics nerds are often dicks...

  • @MrAndyLocksmith
    @MrAndyLocksmith Год назад +3

    “Hilarious compilation of ridiculous medieval beliefs”.
    Go to talk to any theist of any faith, it still goes on!

    • @amh9494
      @amh9494 Год назад

      Or many atheists about economic theory or whether sex is a biological constant. It's far from only religion.

  • @toddaulner5393
    @toddaulner5393 Год назад

    They never saw a Beaver before?

  • @jacobmartinelli7496
    @jacobmartinelli7496 Год назад

    the wandering womb is basically the precursor to religious mindgames for their "curses."

  • @witrex7764
    @witrex7764 Год назад

    Lmao they had a "hose mad illness"

  • @hoppyhopkins9264
    @hoppyhopkins9264 Год назад

    Omg I’m sort of old but new to all this how do I get picture on here

  • @markvogel5872
    @markvogel5872 Год назад

    Poor poor beavers...

  • @Surreal452
    @Surreal452 Год назад

    Not much has changed. Only recently it was mandatory to wear masks standing up in a restaurant but it was okay not to wear them as soon as we sat down 😂