The Most Famous Man of The Middle Ages... But Was He Real?
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
- Most of us have heard the fairy story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. What many of us don’t know is that the legend is based in truth. There is very little evidence as to what actually happened in the German town of Hamelin during the 13th century. In 1384 a short and sinister entry appeared in one of the town’s chronicles. It stated - “It is 100 years since our children left”, but what does this mean?
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I sometimes wonder how much of the fairytales we know today were inspired by real events and people. Who knows, maybe there was a cat with boots somewhen in the Middle Age.
Probably a short musketeer made into a cat to make the story more interesting.
They cut his ears to look like a cat and cut his nose to look like a cat and tared and feathered him to look like a cat because he owned a cat which was associated with sorcery at the time.
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@@Etaoinshrdlu69 sounds about right.
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They could make a horror film about this
"you gotta pay the piper"..
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I have always contemplated the extend of the dancing dead across Europe. Many dismissed it refarding it as a folly that people would indulge in when genuinely sick people would begin convulsing. I'm convinced that maybe this did happen and in several remote locations due to rat or flea spread diseases. You are completely correct to point out the use of an image in the face of death. Ghosts ghouls and wraiths were all used as a form of comfort in fear of impending death during what must have been a devestationg era. I would love to explore supernatural and fairy tale folklore among medieval times. Maybe you could do more of this? ❤
the theory about the crusade: new children joined in the towns and villages where this children's crusade passed, such as Köln, Speyer and Trier, but sometimes children returned home after a few miles of following... but not a single one came back to hameln.
Referring to Grimm first telling the tale, note that the cover of the book pictured at 0:50 has a title that translates as "Children's and House Fairy Tales". The fact that Grimm categorised it as such does cast a certain perspective on the tale.
Love the fact that throughout the video I was thinking, "but what about... ?" and it would be addressed, then "ah, but, ..." and that would be dealt with too! Very thorough work as usual. My own feeling is that he was a personification of a sickness that killed the children, but most of the alternatives seem plausible (and I'd like to know what significance the two colors of "pied" have, if any).
In regards to the Pied Piper legend, it has been considered to be allegory or symbolic of a disaster or disease that ravaged the children. I like to think that the red and yellow of the piper's costume represents blood and bile, which were symptoms of leprosy or plaque.
I think the natural disaster or a break out of some plague or epidemic is the best explanation and the piper is actually symbolic.
Only other thing I can think of is, someone who kidnapped and stole the children to sell into slavery or the children where sold.
Could you do an episode about Arnaut de Cervole, the 14th Century French brigand? There isn't much out there about him, and he was certainly a medieval madman. He did a lot of wild things during the era of the Black Death.
Read about The Illinois Enema Bandit, now there is a madman.
I remember one version of the story where he took all the village children as compensation after the village refused to pay and he sold the children as slaves to the Turks for twice what the village owed him. Moral of the story I suppose is pay your dues if not it could cost you more in the long run if you don't.
Nice that you mention the Children's Crusade, because there's a popular Dutch book by Thea Beckman, called Crusade in Jeans, about a 16 year old boy who doesn't mind trying out his father's friends experimental Time Machine, and ends up in a children's crusade..... never linked the stories, but yeah, why not!
Terry Pratchett’s book “The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents” is a very fun version of the story that I recommend to kids and adults alike.
Everything Terry Pratchett wrote is fabulous!
This channel and the history squad with Kevin Hicks are my favorites
In 1945, the invading Americans were surprised to come upon Hamelin - “hey, it’s a real place!”
Great take on the format, thank you.
could it be possible the story of pied piper was a coping mechanism for a particularly successful serial killer? the medieval people did not have any concept of a serial killer (ie. someone who systematically kills people for pleasure), for example in the case of Gilles de Rais the prosecutors were unable to condemn Gilles as they simply couldn't wrap their head around the fact that someone so affluent and loved simply enjoyed killing children. perhaps something like this had happened with the pied piper and the community was so dedicated to erase the real murderer from existence that they had constructed this myth of the pied piper in order to forget about him.
i mean its possibly also because the allegations were so obviously politically motivated
@@SeanHH1986- NOBODY cared for the children since they were not of noble birth.
De Rais was a child rap!st and killed many of those he had ab*sed (boys with particularly beautiful voices were spared!). It was long know he was an abuser but I guess the clergy was not opposed to that and any better.
In the end De Rais was sentenced and killed over a row with the clergy over a matter of land owning...
Yeah
Great theory, it just sucks that we'll never know
@@javebjorkman The serial killer was Tiberius Princeps (compared to king Herod)
This is a fascinating story, partly because we'll never know the whole truth of it. I really like Sir Terry Pratchett's version - The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents - set on the Discworld
GNU Sir Terry ❤
Maybe it has parallel to the Children's Crusade and then I heard there was a version where he Pied Piper the kids into a lake and drowned them. Disney will not be able to disneyfied it, although I did see a cartoon when I was young about the Pied Piper it was part of Disney's Silly Symphony collection.
As soon as I heard him say "it's been 100 years since our children left" I immediately thought of that. Glad to see I'm not the only one 😅
Dutch television had a tv series about the children of Hamelin trying to find their way back home. It had 5 seasons.
Fascinating!! Thank you
I was a bit of a naughty boy when I was very very young (you could say a total hyper active nuisance :), and in one of my very first school reports the teacher wrote :
*_"Michael is like the Pied Piper, he dances and everyone dances after him..."_* I may have got a few people into trouble but I can't remember any Rats and I'm pretty sure I never danced anyone into a river... 😊
" ... pretty sure ..." ???
I wish I could time travel. Just imagine going back to that time period to witness what others did?😮
You might like the book and movie, "Timeline."
@@longfade I mean with the exception of having a suit that will protect you. Sort of like Kang The Conqueror.
"The Doomsday Book" is another good time travel read.
Lots of intuitive alternatives to each part of the tale. In sum, a disappointing shrug of "Who knows?".
Maybe a short one on the Lambton worm some day (worms are a bit of a Mediaeval - & earlier thing, close to dragon).
Cheers.
You may never make a promise you cannot keep. But you must also never break one you can keep.
This is such an intriguing story. Something must have happened, and we will never know what exactly.
In The Netherlands was a tv series: “Do you know the way to Hamelin, Sir? It was about the journey of the children after they vanished from Hamelin and their efforts to try to find their way back home. Each episode included a couple of songs.
The series run 5 seasons in the seventies.
Mel Gibson might shed a bit of light on it
@@conorgribbin3928- Mel Gibson 😳...?!
I'm convinced the dancing plague was caused by ergotism. It would certainly kill children and a percentage of adults. Ergot is very easy to miss when harvesting grain, especially if you're starving or poor. Hearing music, trancelike states, and psychosis are all symptoms of ergotism. And who takes LSD and doesn't want to dance?
It's not unbelievable that an uneducated person in the 14th century may experience ego death on egotism and believe they must keep dancing to stay alive. Would be horrifying.
It's a shame we don't have more first-hand descriptions of the events and by those who 'participated', for a lack of better words.
Ergot or ego? It first sounds be like you are talking about one and, then, the other.
@fool1shmortal I mentioned both. Ergotism is a type of poisoning caused by ingesting grains infected with the Ergot fungus.
Ergotism is a horrible way to go. While LSD (which is synthesized from Ergot) can be fun, ergot can cause all the same psychedelic effects. However, ergot poisoning can be deadly. Necrosis, organ failure psychotic delusions, and more.
Ego death, ego dissolution, and ego dissociation are more or less the same thing.
Ego death, as best as I can describe it, is a type of dissociative hallucination that feels as though you, as a person, your ego, feel like it's vanishing and ceasing to exist.
Your brain doesn't like this, even if it's the goal of the trip. This is why it's referred to as ego "death" because people often report it feeling like a near death experience.
Often, those who experience ego death come away either mentally scarred or enlightened.
@@fantasyskeep ok. Thanks!
Remember there was a Charlie Brown special about the Pied Piper it made everybody mad because it had adults in it.
It would not be the first to have adults. Their voices were just funny sounds..
Wow I had that book when I was a little kid, how cool to see it again.
A couple of months ago I asked you to make a video about Pied Piper from Hameln. Thank you.
( Btw there's also a story about a woman who was pregnant with (hares!) - it's a story with an unexpected twist.
Agrippina maior = the mother of the 'bungelosen' ( belhamels in dutch ) = ringleaders/ rebels
Very interesting.
There’s an addition, almost certainly later, that a little boy (usually said to be lame or simply too small to keep up with the rest) who did not go missing told that the Piper’s music gave him and the children visions of a beautiful land full of sunshine, flowers and all kinds of wonderful things, and they would see it if they went with him. Was the Piper describing Heaven? (shudder)
Pied piper = drusus Germanicus = James the Just = st. Paul (john-paul)
the Lame = Claudius divius (a stutterer), brother of germanicus = st. Joseph
Claudius was shy and hided himself behind a curtain but found by
the preatorian guards he was made emperor.
As the saints of high places (palatine hill) they were the divined elects (aka nicolaitans)
(revelations 2 : 6)
I never understood the rationale of stiffing a person who clearly had impressive abilities/magic.
With that specific date, definitely sounds like a disaster. It makes me think of that coal byproduct that avalanched and destroyed a school in Wales I think? In the eighties? That’s one way to wipe out most of a generation.
What’s the name of the song in the beginning?
So sad. This is a very weird story.
I love the mural by Mayfield Parish.
Maxfield. ='[.]'=
Early Chomo.
Wow. So much here.
Thought it was going to be about Robin Hood from the title. Way more famous than the Pied Piper.
I'd say they are equally popular in europe
Pied piper = James the Just = Germanicus , who is Robin Hood ?
are red Will (rufus) and little John (ufus) a twin ?
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I genuinely thought this was going to be about Robin Hood.
The 'rats' are baked salt dough and hard as rock. I bought some for family when I was stationed there in the mid 70s.
Is that the same piper we pissed off a month ago. Oh no he’s wearing a green coat, let the kids hang out with him.
Whats the tune of this eerie throat humming?
No, but you still get a thumbs up from me for the quality of your video, however…
When I woke up this morning, I wasn’t thinking about the gawdamned Pied Piper, and now I can’t stop thinking about it.
My day is ruined.
I was just thinking abt this cos some weird creeper on toktok was bragging how he plays his flute and he can lure children to come to him. He bragged abt it like he literally said how he enjoyed having so much power. He looked like a pdf file.
What was his handle?
I thought it was going to be King Arthur
Oli hyvä jakso, kiitos 😊
sala sim baratue.
Another selfish idiot who wants all of the language in anglosajón. All of the languages are correct to explain the situation
Couldn't this possibly be related to the Children's Crusade late in the 11th century?
So much is not known.
Aliens ...
what about hypnotism?
Maybe they fought pirates in a mythical land. Just kidding. That said, what if the Piper were an adolescent? He could have been in league with slave traders.
Anyway, there is a US flag made by nuns in Hamlin during WW2 in thanks for the soldiers bringing them something they needed-maybe food. I forgot which museum it’s in, but somewhere in KC.
Peter Pan & Tinkerbell
Cpt . Hook & Mr. Smee
swordbearer & lightbearer
I would think the "most famous man of the middle ages" would be Robin Hood...
The people of Hamelin should have brought in lots of cats to get rid of the rats.
Recall the House that Jack Built.
Rats!
They fought the dogs, and killed the cats,
And bit the babies in the cradles, R Browning.
Come on kids off to the Crusades!
Sara-kins?
Ye that’s my name nick you now am a bit Piste of bay that
There's something more to this old tale. Sometimes I think we rationalize things to a fault, but then again, the extreme superstition of the people of medieval times makes it hard to believe such a story even if they were telling the truth. Lol
Tom Bombadil?
Alians
Did no one in the town ever consider just kicking the pies pipers ass and breaking his pipe
The pied Piper groomed and trafficked kids😢
Legend tells us that the Piper still plays his tune, influencing US border policy as many thousands of children cross into the country and disappear. ='[.]'=
Just had to chime at at 3:10. I think I can help you out as to exactly which hill the inscription refers to, which you tell us is "unknown". Try the northern one. Add sarcastic end comment of your choice.
I have a theory- and you'll need to bear with me a moment- that the whole story is bollocks. One only needs to consider that, as an example, one person started the story of the Loch Ness 'Monster' as a story and now millions of gullible people believe it. Here in UK, much of our own history has been very significantly changed as a result of over-exuberant Victorians trying to gain one-up-manship and I'm sure the same is true elsewhere.
A mix of Chinese whispers and fairy tales designed to frighten children of that age.
Child Crusade, how brain washing can cause horrific events.
im seriously disturbed by the way you chose to pronounce Saracens or even St Vitus.
I’m sure you’ll recover in due time.
the badly rewarded rightious ' Zacharias barachai ' aka Drusus Germanicus, the camillus young-Paul (jean-paul)
the 'bungelosen' or boanerges are the 'lost boys' his sons exiled to Gadara dalmathua ( pandateria ). It is roman
1st century history packed in a german medieval legend. Biblical the child-murder of bethlehem. the twin is
remembered as pied pete (black, dark) and St. Nicholas (bright, white) , rats are rebels ( lawl-ess, god-less )
St. John = Barnabbas = the 'beloved' son of the father = phillippus ( baptizer )
St. Paul = Silas (little Saul) = James the lesser = Stephanus (the young deacon)
this two are the sons/relatives/compagnions of their father St. Paul = James the Just
Note: their are 2 Pauls both nicknamed Jacov/James (pretender) and their real name is Drusus (andreas/andrew)
biblical the twin (dios-kuroi) is aka Junias & Andronicus or John & James the sons of Zebedeus .
aka Sleepy & Sneezy their father is Grumpy , 7 dwarfs are Clothi / Claudians ( nicolaitans ) = belhamels .
= people of from the right path/way, fellows persecuted by the ( young ) apostle Paul (book of acts) .
Paul (zacharias) meets Peter (ananias) on the road to Damascus. for a 4th century depiction search :
Huqoq alexander mosaic (it is not alexander but germanicus) / Huqoq elephant mosaic ( here on YT )
The Most Famous Man of The Middle Ages? How about Leonardo da Vinci? or Marco Polo? They were living people also, not storybook characters.
I'd say they were more Renaissance figures. I tend to separate the two but admittedly thats a murky separation.
Beware of the Rainbow man
Famous in the middle ages? Not Robin Hood?
Epstein, I believe it was old chap.
the mentions of saints days and the children's crusade goes to show that the most famous man of the middle ages was jesus, not the pied piper.
Mathan, Heli is jesus granddad ( gospel geneaologies) aka Zebedee and Klopas = the famous
The pied piper was a medieval exterminator who wasn’t paid, and thus lured the children of the town away and killed them. It’s as simple as that. I mean think about it. Imagine doing all of that work with your magic flute and you don’t get paid. You can’t regenerate your manna without food, and considering food costs money, these people are endangering your very life. It’s a quite fitting punishment to deprive them of their offspring. Remember y’all, if someone does work for you, then you gotta pay em.
Please add your sources to your videos. Don't be so lazy.
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