I imagine it wouldn't be that bad I mean it's just blood they probably used a cloth and washed it. What's much worse is Europeans throwing shit & piss out their windows on unsuspecting folks walking by I mean that's truly disgusting 😂😂😂
@@Bountylicious I hope there were like designated times for this or only gross people did it or something cause just dumping shit all hours seems crazy.
@@thartwig26 YES! Thank you for sharing that. So true. Sometimes I feel so discouraged by some of the comments I read on YT by self-proclaiming followers of Jesus.
@@Hannah-zw9ow nope, it started way back - back - back - back then. Technically, if something bad happens(ed) and the Jewish communities don't (didn't) suffer as much...it is/was always their fault. Mob mentallity... he said so in the video. They didn't even listen to their pope, SMH.
Though totally disgusting, it’s actually not quite as crazy as you’d think. Just a few centuries later people used pus from cowpox pustules to inoculate against smallpox.
I frequently think about some of the worst times I've been sick, my surgeries, and my difficulties during my first labour, and I am convinced that if I didn't live in the modern age, I would've been long dead by now. How lucky I am to be alive.
Well obviously you’d be long dead by now, the plague did take place in the 1300s ☠️ I’d be more concerned if someone from then was alive now.. being as they’d be almost 700 years old .. O.o
But they would smell bad I read a book once about The Spanish conquest, they were given flowers by the Aztecs because they "thought they were gods" turns out the Emperor and everyone around them couldn't stand their smell since they were used to be clean and smell nice unlike the Europeans.
I would do it--But only of I had a backpack stuffed to the max with soap, antibiotics, Band-aids, and a can of Febreze (the smells would have been brutal). Also, a gun and bullets to kill people who would want to kill me because of what I had in my backpack (witch)!
It was actually Vikings that were the first Europeans to bathe regularly, wear and wash underwear, and many kept a toothpick, comb, and small spoon for scooping earwax (all made of bone). The elaborate braids they wore were just as much for keeping the hair clean as it was for aesthetic.
@@zgmf-x19ainfinitejustice28 Keeping your hair braided or otherwise kept up or tied back prevents oil from the scalp from traveling down the entire hair shaft, which can result in greasy/oily hair. It also helps prevent airborne debris/pathogens from getting caught up in the hair.
Vinegar, and even urine because of its ammonia content, have known antibacterial properties. I think the Jewish habit of thoroughly cleaning the house before every Shabbat and High Holy Days in addition to ritual handwashing and bathing also helped to decrease their susceptibility to the Black Plague.
The Jews & Muslims were not invloved in this it was only the Christians the reason is because we are permitted to clean ourselves and washing up to 5 times day to pray in front of God we cannot do it dirty 😂 The Christians in Europe had a tough time in history
I ordered one online from Venetian mask shop. Cost me nearly $120 with shipping but it was worth every dime. It's a beautiful conversation piece on top of terrifying most people who see it.
Yes we are. We do have different problems that correspond with this time period, but at least we have eliminated most nightmarishly horrible ways to die.
During the Tudor era the nobles would wipe themselves with a linen cloth everyday. Comb their hair every night. Occasionally they would spray water with rosemary or rose water.
And (un)funnily enough, who's to blame? R-E-L-I-G-I-O-N! Priests actually told people that bathing was bad for you, as it invited demonic possession, and clogged-up pores (due to the filth on one's body) supposedly kept that undesirable phenomenon from happening... Not to mention that it was definitely also considered sinful to look at one's own naked body! Thanks for ALWAYS taking a negative and wrong turn on the natural course of things and making Society go after you, Church!
@@GoonieLord Yes, I remember learning back in history class about chamber pots getting tossed out into the streets. The image in the video took me right back...🙋🤔🗿🎭
@@GoonieLord....but would it to the people from then , its like smelly people don't know they are smelly because they are used to it so they probably didn't find it as bad as we would.
I really want to see a hygiene video on Marie Antoinette's France. I've heard people would piss in the hallways of the castle, and would cover their horrible scents with gallons of perfume.
@@jennyrose9454 In Turkey ? Are u serious? But you know it’s a Muslim country and they must be clean af cause they’re praying?! 5 times a day and each prayer is connecting with a bath. All Muslim country’s! Oh no u don’t have 2 thank me for that information, next time stop spreads shot that’s helpful 😁
@@jakealter5504 this is true. though I'd like to add that just recently here in Ph a heiress of biggest mall company died at the age of 29 because of Septicemicia. imagine being a billionaire and still died. she definitely had it worse.
Herbs and spices also keep flees away. So it actually had some protective effects. The miasma theory had some truth to it. Tainting the smell of the body makes it difficult for insects to find you.
99% of the time, if you’ve got time to eat, you’ve got time to do dishes. Heard a monk say that once. As a soldier it irked me as I’ve grown older n slower. I think of that after washing a pile of dirty dishes.
Use cap full of peppermint oil in spray bottle, mix with warm water. Shake and spray where you know the pest travels. Rodents and many insects are repelled by the scent of peppermint.
I can’t imagine what it would be like living back then. Wearing these big dressses...imagine being on your menstrual cycle 💀...or imagine having an upset stomach like what do you do lol. I couldn’t
I imagine many people constantly had diarrhea and upset stomach back then. They also would have STDs and STIs. I would think women had to suffer UTIs a lot. People bleeded everywhere--their vag, their pee holes, their anus. And even their arms from blood letting. 😵
They were probably kept inside and isolated since they knew it was infectious. They also dealt with slightly fewer rats and fleas than the poor and bathed more frequently
I have a shirt that says "Black Death: European Tour" on the front with a rat, and a list of the major cities it whaled on and when I wore it to the ren fair, some of the workers laughed their asses off and then to get back in character, tried to 'scold' me for making light of it.
@@tarrantwolf I can imagine this kind of behavior was much worse back then. I mean, in the video he even said they hunted and killed jews because of the plague. Internet got things different now, but I wouldn't say it's worse
When my best friend invited me to his new house to watch this video he told me to make myself at home. So I kicked him out. I hate being interrupted while watching a Weird History premiere.
I think my least favorite part is the fact that people just had nasty rotting straw in the floors of their home for their entire lives. I can’t imagine how powerfully horrid that stench must have been. Y’all know that show hoarders? It must have been like that but EVERYWHERE
What a coincidence! My water heater is broken, and I had to heat water on the stove so I could bathe this morning. I was thinking about what a pain it would be to have to do that every day. Just imagine having to do that for five children & two adults every day! Yes I can understand why they got lazy about it.
That's most of my childhood. We didn't have heaters. In fact carried on till mid twenties and when I visit parents it's still like that. I am in early 30s.
That’s when you just clean the 5 main Key Areas. Face, Teeth, Armpit, Asshole, and Crotch. If you have enough water after that you could clean your feet but the 5 Main key Areas are what matter the most.
@@freiashworth8303 Yup! Neighbour here in India burns wood every morning in her backyard to heat water. And they're not poor. But that's what they're used to. Why spend money on electricity when you can induce coughing fits in your family and neighbours for free?
@@milkeyshakey997 the reason the population was such a small percent of what it is today has a lot to do with the issues between the infant death rate and malnutrition
@@milkeyshakey997Many women today have very irregular periods and get pregnant. Many don't realize they are pregnant until they go into labor. There's a cable program, I believe it is called 'I didn't know I was pregnant'. It has some very wild stories, but prove they are true by showing photos of the children in question. It was common for women to die in childbirth. They were healthy enough to get pregnant once. If they did survive their survival rate decrease with every birth.
5:55 Agnolo di Tura also wrote of there not being enough living people to bury their dead, which forced him to bury his own children - all five of them. Poor man.
I didn't like history many years ago when I was in high school now...I can't get enough of it! Strange how you never know what you'll like when your much older! For content I really enjoy what you put on here already but I like to know things that nobody really knows about history 😊thanks for sharing!
I was wondering when someone was going to point out that lime used in soap is not made out of lime, the fruit. Yes, they are spelled the same (It's lime not lyme which is a disease). Lime, used in soap, is usually calcium oxide and/ or calcium hydroxide, not the fruit. However, I do believe in this video the picture of the fruit was just tongue-in-cheek for comedic effect. It made me laugh.
My Ten year old son would be a better doctor as would any other ten year old in our time than even the most learned Doctor of there time. I wonder if they would be listened to or burned at the stake for being a witch or something. My kid thinks he's be seen as a hero for being able to safe people,however I don't think any one would even listen. Thanks for giving me such a rewarding way of connecting with my son we had a great time mulling these questions over together!!! I was completely surprised by how interested he became after watching this program. You guys rock!!! My son says thanks to he had a lot of fun learning for once he says your cooler than his teacher anyway. LOL.
@@jaobyeden4143 it sure is. So if they decide to explore the idea they can decide what to narrow their research down to and it being Weird History, I would love to see what specific thread they decide to pull. To Weird History : thank you for channel! Always well thought out and informative :)
Idk when I was a kid I had homework to take a bath like back in the day we heated a pot over a fire and carried it to the tub one by one and it was a lot of work for a kind of sad bath
“One could eat lunch with friends and have dinner with ancestors in paradise.” Giovanni Boccaccio Italian writer and poet referring to the Bubonic Plaque not Cholera
@@leticiagarcia9025 he might’ve thought that he was talking about the bubonic plague but that could honestly be applied to all three versions of the plague. Hell, the pneumonic and sepicemic plagues were even worse than the bubonic plague
I'd like to hear about ancient Indian hygiene. I know it was pretty interesting like making soap from ashes, it's probably pretty in depth to because even to today Hindu's like myself take fire baths, get the heat and smoke on the germs and grime. There's also holy ash, vibhuti which is like pure (clean) white ashes for rituals and covering yourself in.
I've read several books on the history of the plague, and some priests also thought that drinking menstruation blood would cure/ward off the plague. I kind of just think that the whole situation was so devastating that they were willing to try anything. But yeah, they did a LOT of gross things thinking it would ward off the plague.
Lack of reliable birth control. Women would have up to 10, sometime more, children over the reproductive time of their lives. Therefore increasing the chance that at least some of those children would make it to adulthood and pop out another 10 to 14 children themselves.
@@kyliepechler sadly, your numbers are pretty accurate, they probably weren't much better in the upper classes, I know Catharine of Aragon had a dozen or so and only one survived, cant say that I necessarily feel bad for Hank, yes Anne was a homewrecker, but there were plenty in line behind her, personally I think I'm stuck on Natalie Dormer with jet black hair, fair skin and outrageous blue eyes. There were a few guys that helped propagate the species William the conqueror, Charlageme and of course Gengis the Kahn had boatloads of offspring, I think 1 in 200 people alive today can be linked to, more the closer you get to mongol territories.
@@itachimistress half of my childhood was spent in the UK and half in the US so I knew both versions. I have always thought the UK version made more sense because ashes don’t become a factor until AFTER the person falls down, not before. Lol
It's great to have learned the origin of the term "Quarantine" which means forty in Italian. Nowadays, the quarantine period for COVID-19 is typically fourteen days but still sounds a lot like "forty".
Why would you drink the drainage if the point of draining the wounds was to remove it from the body?! oh jeez. I can't even imagine how horrifyingly disgusting that would have been.
I'm sure one day your grand children will say something similar about this whole corona situation so you're actually doing something great too you're surviving this pandemic
@@kaysmith4594 I listened to a live performance of Mozart's Requiem in Trinity Church, Boston, MA on 12/31/1991 performed by the Handel and Hayden Society. It was a breathtakingly beautiful performance.
“How filthy would you be? How filthy are you now?” Oh, I’m relatively filthy, but I would have been filthier still, had I lived in the 14th century, I suppose.
How any infant survived in the Middle Ages is nothing short of a miracle.
right?! no wonder so many queens miscarried or had still births it was lucky most royal women survived childbirth
They took their vitamins and said their prayers?
Babies are tougher than u think.
The truest comment ever
Survival of the fittest.
Seems like ignorance and stupidity is the worst plague, even today.
There is nothing worse than being afflicted with both.
Ignorance is the absence of learning, stupidity is the unwillingness to learn.
@@ipissedagreed, and i think there also is deliberate ignorance
@@MichelleIbarraMHAEdD that's what is commonly called willful ignorance, it truly is a plague.
@@ipissed You might've switched the definition of the two
Just being a woman, I can’t even imagine... having periods in this time is crazy
Omg that would be horrible and disgusting 😦🤮🤮
I imagine it wouldn't be that bad I mean it's just blood they probably used a cloth and washed it. What's much worse is Europeans throwing shit & piss out their windows on unsuspecting folks walking by I mean that's truly disgusting 😂😂😂
@@Bountylicious I hope there were like designated times for this or only gross people did it or something cause just dumping shit all hours seems crazy.
@@Bountylicious yeah i don't think they washed the cloth after using it
And having a baby. It's like " write your will...Mama, you 50/50 might live or die.
Just imagine in 600 years what they'll be saying about our hygiene.
That we went a little overboard, developed allergies, and had to cut back :)
Just imagine what they'll be saying about our handling of Covid.
My 2 boys could be case studies
I doubt the world will last a another 100 years. So no worries on that thought!
@@jennifermccowan4751 😆 that's funny
"what was the hygiene of the black plague like?"
shit. literally.
Fairly good actually. www.medievalists.net/2013/04/did-people-in-the-middle-ages-take-baths/
@@Riley19934 ya, for their time. dw though, im just fuckin around
Jesus Christ why did I laugh at this so much-
"top notch!"
~fleas
LMAO
The doctor who told people to drink the drainage from the wounds is a MENACE 😭
😂😂😂
A crypto no doubt.
KIND OF LIKE dR FAUCHI
@@jeffcook6446 No, kind of like Trump and his 'bleach treatment' suggestion.
Quicklime made from lime? 🤣😂🤣😂
Mass death: *occurs*
Medieval Europeans: *draws dancing skeletons*
😂
😂😂😂😫
Lol
Nowadays we make memes, coronachan for exemple
Modern Europeans: coffin dance. Any better? Nope.
I have never appreciated the modern toilet so much
I’ve never appreciated being born in to this era of medicine so much.
The chamber pot wasn’t bad. Throwing its contents out the window was
@@mrgehbak6713 it’s better than nothing, but I’d still disagree. It was bad.
@@ArtsyDaffy10 I meant the pot wasn’t bad as opposed to nothing. The pot is just the medieval version of today’s Johnny on the spot
The Roman's had a pretty good plumbing system...except for the pipes being lead.
*Something bad happens in Europe.*
Jewish community: "Ah shit, here we go again."
America and china now
*Hurricane strikes in america*
America: THIS IS THE WORK OF THE CHIBESE GOVERNMENT THEY ARE TRYING TO KILL US ALL USING WIND
@@thelambsauce1701 After US collapse, Brazil and Europe might clash 50 years from now...
@@thartwig26 YES! Thank you for sharing that. So true. Sometimes I feel so discouraged by some of the comments I read on YT by self-proclaiming followers of Jesus.
🤣🤣🤣
@@thelambsauce1701 this was based in Europe....not America?
Is no one going to talk about how the Jewish were literally always blamed and hated for everything 💀💀 even back then ... damn!
“Even back then” I mean that’s when it started
@@Hannah-zw9ow nope, it started way back - back - back - back then. Technically, if something bad happens(ed) and the Jewish communities don't (didn't) suffer as much...it is/was always their fault. Mob mentallity... he said so in the video. They didn't even listen to their pope, SMH.
Christians have literally always had it out for the Jews :(
I was looking for this comment.
just like blacks are hated&blamed 4 everything today. same shyt ..diff toilet. grow up.
“They survive more than us, no need to ask them what they are doing, let’s torture them”. Seems logic.
Yeah right?? God hates them...so he is torturing us instead for allowing them to exist here....😳😳 What loons people can be.
People have always only needed the flimsiest excuse to go after whatever group they don't like.
Just a bunch of WOKE medievals
Yep the horrors of Religion
@@automnejoy5308 and they always seem to like to use violence
They probably made fun of prople who were " too clean":
"That Matteus bathes every month. What a germophobe!"
Lol "he's so high maintenance 🙄"
@@itzsammie99 lmao
Thay actually did
I’m sorry but the bird mask is one of the scariest things ever.
You mean sexiest
@@sullivanhodges8098 LOL
It is!
Naw it's been badass since 92. My 92 in 2nd grade. 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
I think they are scary too!
Doctors: let’s cut the buboes open and let the pus get out so that the illness would go away
Also doctors: lEt’S dRiNk tHe pUs
Yea 😅 what the actual f were they thinking! I don’t even think my five year old self would’ve thought that was a good plan
Ew
@@LeGeND-12 FR THO UGH
Though totally disgusting, it’s actually not quite as crazy as you’d think. Just a few centuries later people used pus from cowpox pustules to inoculate against smallpox.
@@thisfacebelievesyou8862 considering the alternative that’s not so bad
I frequently think about some of the worst times I've been sick, my surgeries, and my difficulties during my first labour, and I am convinced that if I didn't live in the modern age, I would've been long dead by now. How lucky I am to be alive.
I was born with asthma, as a preemie. 😅 I definitely wouldn’t have lived beyond a few hours before modern medicine.
Well obviously you’d be long dead by now, the plague did take place in the 1300s ☠️
I’d be more concerned if someone from then was alive now.. being as they’d be almost 700 years old .. O.o
Afterwards, someone got filthy rich selling those souvenir "I SURVIVED THE PLAGUE AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY TUNIC" tunics.
I'd buy one and i would wear it with pride.
And "World's Greatest Plague Doctor" mugs.
Lol
or, at least, filthy.
😂
"Wouldn't time travel be cool and live in the past?" After watching this.......nope
I mean I get it but I really wudve liked to spend a few days just to actually see what transpired
I would like to go back just to flex with my phone on some random peasant then leave immediately
But they would smell bad I read a book once about The Spanish conquest, they were given flowers by the Aztecs because they "thought they were gods" turns out the Emperor and everyone around them couldn't stand their smell since they were used to be clean and smell nice unlike the Europeans.
Not as a woman. As a man absolutely.
I would do it--But only of I had a backpack stuffed to the max with soap, antibiotics, Band-aids, and a can of Febreze (the smells would have been brutal). Also, a gun and bullets to kill people who would want to kill me because of what I had in my backpack (witch)!
It was actually Vikings that were the first Europeans to bathe regularly, wear and wash underwear, and many kept a toothpick, comb, and small spoon for scooping earwax (all made of bone). The elaborate braids they wore were just as much for keeping the hair clean as it was for aesthetic.
I actually saw those little spoons you're talking about. They were very clean.
So vikings are cleaner than people in the 1600-1800
How do braids keep hair clean?
@@zgmf-x19ainfinitejustice28 Keeping your hair braided or otherwise kept up or tied back prevents oil from the scalp from traveling down the entire hair shaft, which can result in greasy/oily hair. It also helps prevent airborne debris/pathogens from getting caught up in the hair.
Yes killing and maiming does need to be cleaned off regularly
Vinegar, and even urine because of its ammonia content, have known antibacterial properties. I think the Jewish habit of thoroughly cleaning the house before every Shabbat and High Holy Days in addition to ritual handwashing and bathing also helped to decrease their susceptibility to the Black Plague.
The Jews & Muslims were not invloved in this it was only the Christians the reason is because we are permitted to clean ourselves and washing up to 5 times day to pray in front of God we cannot do it dirty 😂 The Christians in Europe had a tough time in history
@@Bountylicious 😂
@@Bountylicious The black death actually struck the Middle East and North Africa probably just as hard as Europe
Also happened to their syscibilty to the black plague
@@Bountylicious 8:30 the Christians help you this took time in history
I would love to find a plague bird mask and wear it to the grocery store with my black wool coat.
Amazon has them.
They are out there but the one I see someone wearing on a video was rubber. Just paper machete it. And paint it. If you have skills like that
Same
DO. IT.
I ordered one online from Venetian mask shop. Cost me nearly $120 with shipping but it was worth every dime. It's a beautiful conversation piece on top of terrifying most people who see it.
Aren’t we all pretty lucky to be living in this time
No
Yes I’m so greatful
It's got its problems, but it's better than this.
Yes we are. We do have different problems that correspond with this time period, but at least we have eliminated most nightmarishly horrible ways to die.
That would sucks for real life
I want to know more about the Royal hygiene Centuries past. I read a Queen bragged about bathing only twice her entire life 🤢
Yeah it’s crazy 😖
Once when she was born and on her wedding day if I remember correctly
Dear Lord. Can you imagine how bad these people had to smell?
@@Anita_Backrub they were used to that kind of smell so they didn't mind that much (perfume hello to youuu) but for us it might be hell for the nose 🤣
During the Tudor era the nobles would wipe themselves with a linen cloth everyday. Comb their hair every night. Occasionally they would spray water with rosemary or rose water.
Hmm nothing makes me click faster than a video about how dirty people were back in [insert time period and/or event].
Same 💀
Greeting fellow human. I am agree
Can't wait to see hygiene practices of citizens in recession America.
Same. It makes me so grateful to live now.
Back in 2020 during covid
I love showers and feeling clean , thank you god for bringing me into the world on this timeline. 🚿 🧼 🛀 ❤️
Not to bathe for monthes would be sheer torture.
FACTS
Yesss seriously cause I could not survive back then
Amen!
@@lilacsunshine3044
When I used to watch Survivor and they'd win the bath prize I'd be so happy for them!
The Romans had better hygiene than in the middle Ages, and Europe wouldn't get back to the Roman standards of Hygiene until the late Victorian era.
Yeah but outside of some major cities, it was about the same as the middle and dark ages.
@@superfinevids doesn’t take away from the fact Romans were cleaner
And (un)funnily enough, who's to blame? R-E-L-I-G-I-O-N! Priests actually told people that bathing was bad for you, as it invited demonic possession, and clogged-up pores (due to the filth on one's body) supposedly kept that undesirable phenomenon from happening... Not to mention that it was definitely also considered sinful to look at one's own naked body! Thanks for ALWAYS taking a negative and wrong turn on the natural course of things and making Society go after you, Church!
Not really
@@user-tp9hm2iq6p Religion is to blame for pretty much everything.
5:23 oh my God there's a baby breastfeeding on a dead woman. That is a heartbreaking drawing.
Amends to them for living through such a brutal time and allowing us to learn from our mistakes
i am suddenly very thankful for running water and am going to fully appreciate a hot shower
People hardly wash their butts during this plague, this is all believable. ⚠️🧟
This. Is. Not. A. Plague. The survival rate is 98-99%.
@@felixhodkinson6351
I was being facetious, flippant...🧟
It smelled gross everywhere back then
@@GoonieLord
Yes, I remember learning back in history class about chamber pots getting tossed out into the streets. The image in the video took me right back...🙋🤔🗿🎭
@@GoonieLord....but would it to the people from then , its like smelly people don't know they are smelly because they are used to it so they probably didn't find it as bad as we would.
I really want to see a hygiene video on Marie Antoinette's France. I've heard people would piss in the hallways of the castle, and would cover their horrible scents with gallons of perfume.
Have you been to France they still swim in perfume. I have asthma. I couldn't enjoy the sites because I couldn't breathe. Wtf a little dab will do ya.
@@3monsters014 I have migraine and can’t be smelling floral strong perfumes I use only citrus ones !!! I might have to take a mask 😷 for it
They still smell bad bad 😭
@@3monsters014 in Greece and Turkey also. Like...never more than 2 sprays ever
@@jennyrose9454 In Turkey ? Are u serious? But you know it’s a Muslim country and they must be clean af cause they’re praying?! 5 times a day and each prayer is connecting with a bath. All Muslim country’s!
Oh no u don’t have 2 thank me for that information, next time stop spreads shot that’s helpful 😁
The “lime” they were talking about was calcium oxide not the fruit.
Yeah right .
I laughed
Didn't seem like a joke in the video either... lmao
Right? Geez, I had to facepalm on that one. 🤦♀️
Makes me skeptical of the whole video
Septicemicia is horrifying even today's medical advancements won't assure your survivability if you've got even just a moderate one.
Actually it’s got a low mortality rate (4-15%) IF you get treatment very early on in the infection, otherwise it’s nearly 100% fatal
@@jakealter5504 this is true. though I'd like to add that just recently here in Ph a heiress of biggest mall company died at the age of 29 because of Septicemicia. imagine being a billionaire and still died. she definitely had it worse.
@@ynnosredd3190 yup
@@jakealter5504 I don’t know if I would call 15% a low mortality rate
@@potatofuryy it is compared to a 100% mortality rate
Unpopular opinion: Most of history is just everyone bullying Jewish people.
or blaming other races / religions for problems that have nothing to do with faith
🤦🏾♀️
Lol anytime they are better at doing something they seem to get blamed, almost like they god's chosen people.
Everyone needs a patsy. Modern world is no different.
@@supersonicsaga Hahahahaha.
Don’t take this the wrong way but I watch these videos to help me fall asleep at night or take naps. They relax me lol
Same
Same
Your not alone my friend your not alone 😊
Wow, this video reminded me to change out my straw floor covering. It hath not been changed in a fortnight
Wait, you changeth yours?
thou hast StRaW!? varlet!
😂😂😂😂
Herbs and spices also keep flees away. So it actually had some protective effects. The miasma theory had some truth to it. Tainting the smell of the body makes it difficult for insects to find you.
Wierd History: "How filthy are you now?"
Me: *glances at the pile of dirty dishes* - "stop shaming me!"
99% of the time, if you’ve got time to eat, you’ve got time to do dishes.
Heard a monk say that once. As a soldier it irked me as I’ve grown older n slower. I think of that after washing a pile of dirty dishes.
Now I'm wondering if cockroaches are stand-ins for fleas. Those damn things are EVERYWHERE, no matter how much you stomp and drown and spray them.
@@dhrgkbqxtjr2743 bomb yo shit!
Use cap full of peppermint oil in spray bottle, mix with warm water. Shake and spray where you know the pest travels. Rodents and many insects are repelled by the scent of peppermint.
🤣😂🤣🤣
Me 15 minutes ago: Gonna make some breakfast
(checks notifications)
My appetite: Aight, Imma head out
I've just made dinner.. 😁
* saves to Watch Later *
I’m monching on cheetos rn😩🤣
I was watching this while eating...
I would still scarf my food down. Youre skinny legend
I can’t imagine what it would be like living back then. Wearing these big dressses...imagine being on your menstrual cycle 💀...or imagine having an upset stomach like what do you do lol. I couldn’t
Like, oh hi. Don't mind me... it's just me, my fancy dress, and my heavy flow.
I imagine many people constantly had diarrhea and upset stomach back then. They also would have STDs and STIs. I would think women had to suffer UTIs a lot. People bleeded everywhere--their vag, their pee holes, their anus. And even their arms from blood letting. 😵
"All the Jewish residents in Germany were burned."
Germany: "I'll fuckin' do it again!"
𝕝𝕠𝕝
Good ol Germany, always back to the old beat
Never change Germany
Burned? Omg
Wow They just blamed the Jews for everything. What they heck did they ever do to these people??
I wonder how Royal Families through out those times survived during the plague
They were probably kept inside and isolated since they knew it was infectious. They also dealt with slightly fewer rats and fleas than the poor and bathed more frequently
I believe it was by isolating themselves.
The rats and fleas were ordered to wear masks within the castle.
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Lol
@@amandaadrienne837 Lmao
We should be on our knees thanking whomever to live in the time we do...and our poor ancestors.🙏❤️😭
True but not my ancestors… indigenous people lead much cleaner lives and weren’t exposed to diseases until the Europeans showed up !
I'm am so confused on how we aren't extinct already
Edit: whaaaa thanks for the likes peeps
LITERALLY
Stop thanking for likes. Its cringe.
We are the strongest plague
@@yelloe I'm assuming you know nothing about freedom of speech so umm might wanna check that screw that's loose
@@Mixx3d_B3rri3s 😬😬😬😬💩
Absolutely miracle that some people survived especially little ones . 😢😢
2:20
Many people made their own soap
Until 20th century
I don't remember seeing all this at the renaissance fair.
I have a shirt that says "Black Death: European Tour" on the front with a rat, and a list of the major cities it whaled on and when I wore it to the ren fair, some of the workers laughed their asses off and then to get back in character, tried to 'scold' me for making light of it.
I've seen plague doctors at ren faires before.
Big shout out to all our ancestors who someone survived all this nastiness
It was definitely a gamble watching this on my lunch break. Lesson learned 😂
Same
😂😂😂
People in 2020-2021: “ OMG , COVID is the craziest thing to happen to the world!”
The Bubonic Plague : “ yo, hold my coat - “
lol plague kills 40-60% of Europe, life goes on, covid kills 0.18% of Americans "oh my gawd the worlds ending!"
@@tarrantwolf I can imagine this kind of behavior was much worse back then. I mean, in the video he even said they hunted and killed jews because of the plague. Internet got things different now, but I wouldn't say it's worse
@@tarrantwolf you think after 5.8 million deaths worldwide, it’s nothing?
@@prairieflower7967 out of 7.9 billion in over 2 years, do the math.
@@tarrantwolf your math is off.
When my best friend invited me to his new house to watch this video he told me to make myself at home. So I kicked him out. I hate being interrupted while watching a Weird History premiere.
That's fuuunnnyy!!!
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rude as fuck,man.
....I hope you're joking...
Holy shit your still alive!
Anyone else listen to these to fall asleep? Just me.... okay.... I wait for new ones to come out all the time I love love love them
Every day these videos are amazing
I think my least favorite part is the fact that people just had nasty rotting straw in the floors of their home for their entire lives. I can’t imagine how powerfully horrid that stench must have been. Y’all know that show hoarders? It must have been like that but EVERYWHERE
What a coincidence! My water heater is broken, and I had to heat water on the stove so I could bathe this morning.
I was thinking about what a pain it would be to have to do that every day. Just imagine having to do that for five children & two adults every day! Yes I can understand why they got lazy about it.
That's most of my childhood. We didn't have heaters. In fact carried on till mid twenties and when I visit parents it's still like that. I am in early 30s.
you still can wipe your body with a clean cloth every morning better it's better than nothing \0/
Third world countries live like that everyday. No heater. They heat water on their stove. No shower as well. They use buckets.
That’s when you just clean the 5 main Key Areas. Face, Teeth, Armpit, Asshole, and Crotch. If you have enough water after that you could clean your feet but the 5 Main key Areas are what matter the most.
@@freiashworth8303 Yup! Neighbour here in India burns wood every morning in her backyard to heat water. And they're not poor. But that's what they're used to. Why spend money on electricity when you can induce coughing fits in your family and neighbours for free?
I’m very confident that I was a rat in the Middle Ages 😌
Lol why is this so funny
I'm a rat now! Wooow what a coincidence!
@@tabby73 came here to say this too! 🐀
Me too. Ah, the good old days.
This Is actually fucking funny considering they were the only ones to survive 😂 maybe they mutated or something
Omg imagine having your period back then as a woman 😖
Many women didn’t due to malnutrition
@@jsaul6227 dont u need a period for ovulation? So did poorer women just not have children?
@@milkeyshakey997 the reason the population was such a small percent of what it is today has a lot to do with the issues between the infant death rate and malnutrition
Sharna Grayson hope you don't have that heavy flow 🚱
@@milkeyshakey997Many women today have very irregular periods and get pregnant. Many don't realize they are pregnant until they go into labor. There's a cable program, I believe it is called 'I didn't know I was pregnant'. It has some very wild stories, but prove they are true by showing photos of the children in question.
It was common for women to die in childbirth. They were healthy enough to get pregnant once. If they did survive their survival rate decrease with every birth.
Black plagues: hey
Baby: I'm gonna cry
Black plague: understandable, have a nice day
5:55 Agnolo di Tura also wrote of there not being enough living people to bury their dead, which forced him to bury his own children - all five of them. Poor man.
I didn't like history many years ago when I was in high school now...I can't get enough of it! Strange how you never know what you'll like when your much older! For content I really enjoy what you put on here already but I like to know things that nobody really knows about history 😊thanks for sharing!
It would be nice to know more about the life of Native Americans.
I would love to learn more about them too
what's that supposed to mean? are you calling us dirty???😶
I'm sorry if I offended you my great great grandmother was Native American also.
@@j.aeycee how in the hell did you come to that conclusion from anything said?? 🤦🤦
@@tamekaswindle3473 girl…
You don’t make Lime by heating limes it’s from calcium like seashells being crushed and heated
I was wondering when someone was going to point out that lime used in soap is not made out of lime, the fruit. Yes, they are spelled the same (It's lime not lyme which is a disease). Lime, used in soap, is usually calcium oxide and/ or calcium hydroxide, not the fruit. However, I do believe in this video the picture of the fruit was just tongue-in-cheek for comedic effect. It made me laugh.
As a hilarious aside, if you do use lime to make soap you'll have a pretty poor soap. I'd go with lye, myself. Lol
U & A yeah you use sodium hydroxide (drain cleaner) to make soap
My Ten year old son would be a better doctor as would any other ten year old in our time than even the most learned Doctor of there time. I wonder if they would be listened to or burned at the stake for being a witch or something. My kid thinks he's be seen as a hero for being able to safe people,however I don't think any one would even listen.
Thanks for giving me such a rewarding way of connecting with my son we had a great time mulling these questions over together!!! I was completely surprised by how interested he became after watching this program. You guys rock!!! My son says thanks to he had a lot of fun learning for once he says your cooler than his teacher anyway. LOL.
I would like to hear about the history of Accents and language
That's a really broad topic
@@jaobyeden4143 it sure is. So if they decide to explore the idea they can decide what to narrow their research down to and it being Weird History, I would love to see what specific thread they decide to pull.
To Weird History : thank you for channel! Always well thought out and informative :)
@@KittyPetote Ah okay, you cute tho
Yes definitely
I appreciate the fact I have a shower inside the house and can get soap at the store.
It is amazing that everyone who lives now is a descendant of people who have survived all these diseases.!!!🍍🍍🍍🍍🍍
I never understood why europeans didn't wash. Civilization all over the world had regular bathing habits. Is it cuz it was cold?
Because they believed that disease traveled through the bad air (miasma) and bathing would open your pores and let the bad air infect your body.
Idk when I was a kid I had homework to take a bath like back in the day we heated a pot over a fire and carried it to the tub one by one and it was a lot of work for a kind of sad bath
Uhmm that is a myth. Did you not watch the video?
@Kru Blac There was no such thing as dark ages, modern historians are sick of that outdated term.
And they still don't like to bathe they think its normal to wash without soap or just washing the groin and arm pits 🤢
"Good sir! You have plague! When did you last shower?!"
"It was thine year of our great lord and sav.... Wait, what's a shower?"
🤣 I'm dead. Literally.
The History we stand on every day is mind blowing.
The deadpan, sarcastic narration is a winner. 😊❤️
Septicemic plague that is the one they say if you get it you'll eat breakfast with your relatives but you'll eat dinner with your ancestors.
“One could eat lunch with friends and have dinner with ancestors in paradise.”
Giovanni Boccaccio
Italian writer and poet referring to the Bubonic Plaque not Cholera
@@leticiagarcia9025 he might’ve thought that he was talking about the bubonic plague but that could honestly be applied to all three versions of the plague. Hell, the pneumonic and sepicemic plagues were even worse than the bubonic plague
I was literally eating eggs when they said “they drained the pus and drank it”
Omfg
I’ve always wondered how I could ever survive if I had to go back in time 😭😭 imagine the smell, people probably just got used to it .
I'd like to hear about ancient Indian hygiene. I know it was pretty interesting like making soap from ashes, it's probably pretty in depth to because even to today Hindu's like myself take fire baths, get the heat and smoke on the germs and grime. There's also holy ash, vibhuti which is like pure (clean) white ashes for rituals and covering yourself in.
For real life
I missed these videos. I'm fascinated with English history, especially the Middle Ages, so this is right up my alley!
"Bring out your dead!"
"There's some lovely filth over here..."
“I’m not dead!”
@@ariesleorising9421 He will be soon, he's very old. :)
@@ingridfong-daley5899 I feel happy!
@@FurnitureFan "Dark times are these wherein men can say 'Nii!' at will to passing old ladies"--Roger, the Shrubber :)
Gonna watch this one on Netflix right now, I love Monty Python!
"The Doomsday Book" by Connie Willis is a fictional novel about time travelers in the plague era. Awesome book - you feel like you're there.
Wow the baby nursing off it’s dead mom at 5:20 got me tho. So sad :(
I've read several books on the history of the plague, and some priests also thought that drinking menstruation blood would cure/ward off the plague. I kind of just think that the whole situation was so devastating that they were willing to try anything. But yeah, they did a LOT of gross things thinking it would ward off the plague.
Dang these videos come out so consistently that I can listen to a new one after I exercise every other day almost every time. Good job as always!
"expectoration, vomiting, the leakage of dogs and men, ale droppings, scraps of fish, and other abominations not fit to be mentioned"
sounds lovely
Considering what was mentioned, I don't think I want to know what was worse....
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Awful in every way, ugh. Makes you wonder how we survived adding in the almost constant wars.
Lack of reliable birth control.
Women would have up to 10, sometime more, children over the reproductive time of their lives. Therefore increasing the chance that at least some of those children would make it to adulthood and pop out another 10 to 14 children themselves.
@@kyliepechler sadly, your numbers are pretty accurate, they probably weren't much better in the upper classes, I know Catharine of Aragon had a dozen or so and only one survived, cant say that I necessarily feel bad for Hank, yes Anne was a homewrecker, but there were plenty in line behind her, personally I think I'm stuck on Natalie Dormer with jet black hair, fair skin and outrageous blue eyes. There were a few guys that helped propagate the species William the conqueror, Charlageme and of course Gengis the Kahn had boatloads of offspring, I think 1 in 200 people alive today can be linked to, more the closer you get to mongol territories.
The thumbnail is me even with all these skincare.
Lol 😂
It was literally hell on earth
I love learning about past epidemics during and epidemic
"Of course, if you did something stupid, you would increase the chances." ---- "BLoOdLetTinG"
"Excuse me Governor" never laughed so hard 🤣
Ring around the Rosies pockets full of posies!!! Ashes ashes we all fall down
you mean atishoo atishhoo not ashes. you sneezed when you caught it.
I thought ashes meant after they burnt bodies? I don’t know much about the plague
I think there are variations to this. Some countries (like the U.S.) use ashes. Other countries (like the UK) use atishhoo
@@itachimistress ^THIS.
@@itachimistress half of my childhood was spent in the UK and half in the US so I knew both versions. I have always thought the UK version made more sense because ashes don’t become a factor until AFTER the person falls down, not before. Lol
It's great to have learned the origin of the term "Quarantine" which means forty in Italian. Nowadays, the quarantine period for COVID-19 is typically fourteen days but still sounds a lot like "forty".
Its such a perfect coincidence! This was in my recommendation and my history teacher is teaching us The medieval period and Feudalism right now!
I'm still waiting for you to do a video on hygiene during Woodstock
😂😂😂.. it was probably similar to the hygiene in this video
Hahaha yup..I believe they used the pond in the field..lol that's a good one Haha
Can you do some Philippine history? Maybe the first ever visit by Europeans there, which was 500 years ago today.
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*YESSSSSS* 🇵🇭
I didn’t know this! Thanks for sharing!
Yasss!!
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I’d probably would hate watching this in class, but I’m over here, on spring break watching this cause I’m bored
Man i missed these series 😂
Why would you drink the drainage if the point of draining the wounds was to remove it from the body?! oh jeez. I can't even imagine how horrifyingly disgusting that would have been.
Imagine practicing good hygiene during a health crisis and your neighbors who don’t hate you for it
Makes me proud to watch this while on the can.
don't forget to wash your hands 😉
Same here
The things people had to go through back then and put up with... I honestly don't think I'd be strong enough to survive
You would have been if you had been born during that time
Well you say that now but I'm sure you would have survived just like my ancestors did in Africa
I'm sure one day your grand children will say something similar about this whole corona situation so you're actually doing something great too you're surviving this pandemic
How apocalyptic! I'm sure that's how they felt. How anyone survived is beyond me
Mozart’s requiem in the back is the cherry on top favorite song to sing in choir haha
Never mind that Mozart lived 400 years later but hey, its not like that music changed a lot.
Mine too. I'd love to hear it live, it would be breath taking
@@kaysmith4594 I listened to a live performance of Mozart's Requiem in Trinity Church, Boston, MA on 12/31/1991 performed by the Handel and Hayden Society. It was a breathtakingly beautiful performance.
Hey do a video about ancient African tribes
It's not bhm anymore... So get outta here...
I second this!
Nah we good
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@@skyvoid6259 this man really thinks black people only exist in February
“Not Good”… that sums it up nicely
“How filthy would you be? How filthy are you now?”
Oh, I’m relatively filthy, but I would have been filthier still, had I lived in the 14th century, I suppose.