Hanging and Gibbeting: A Medieval Torture of Unbearable Pain & Humiliation

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  • Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
  • Probably the most common form of execution and the first one that people think about in regard to Medieval executions, hanging was the usual method of capital punishment for the Anglo Saxons. Other means of execution have been implemented but none of them has been so common and used for so many centuries in Europe, as death by hangman.
    0:00 Introduction
    2:10 Persecution
    4:34 Hanging
    7:12 Gibbeting
    🎶🎶 Music by CO.AG: / @co.agmusic
    Narrated by James Wade
    Edited by James Wade
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  • @oddish4352
    @oddish4352 2 года назад +530

    Guy Fawkes managed to escape an agonizing end by jumping from the ladder when he was being hanged. He broke his neck and died instantly, leaving them with only a corpse to disembowel.

    • @Luna-wg6ic
      @Luna-wg6ic 2 года назад +91

      He had already been tortured horrifically.

    • @oddish4352
      @oddish4352 2 года назад +108

      @@Luna-wg6ic True, so no one thought he would have the strength to cheat the executioner.

    • @Jonglierfreak
      @Jonglierfreak 2 года назад +129

      Don't know why I imagine a sad executioner disemboweling the corpse: "it's no fun anymore when they are already dead ☹️"

    • @oddish4352
      @oddish4352 2 года назад

      @@Jonglierfreak You had to be a real sicko to do that job. It wasn't like being a headsman, where the objective was to decapitate your victim as cleanly as possible... this was about maximizing their suffering.

    • @gavhenrad
      @gavhenrad Год назад +12

      He always was a sly one that Guy Fawkes

  • @bloodybonescomic
    @bloodybonescomic 2 года назад +722

    Years ago I read Daniel Mannox's epic work on torture. The English had invented a gibbet in which the condemned was secured in such a manner as to have all their weight resting on spikes in their feet. This pain was so horrible that the victims would scream all night. One account had an innkeeper go outside and shoot the miserable man so the guests could sleep.

    • @hicknopunk
      @hicknopunk 2 года назад +63

      Sounds like a good time.

    • @nospoon4799
      @nospoon4799 2 года назад +28

      1 reply hidden...

    • @aliray1165
      @aliray1165 2 года назад +18

      @@nospoon4799 what does that happen for?

    • @ub3rfr3nzy94
      @ub3rfr3nzy94 2 года назад +15

      @@aliray1165 When you use swear words. RUclips gives you a warning on mobile that the comment will be hidden. I'll make another comment tell me if you can see it 😂

    • @aliray1165
      @aliray1165 2 года назад +17

      @@ub3rfr3nzy94 I never get the warning x-D didn’t see a second message btw

  • @tomfrazier1103
    @tomfrazier1103 2 года назад +574

    When being tortured to death humiliation is the least of your worries. It does more for the Killer's esteem than any one.

    • @4evermilkman
      @4evermilkman 2 года назад +52

      I imagine that these professional torturers were getting off to this weird stuff

    • @chuckshartz2722
      @chuckshartz2722 2 года назад +36

      @@4evermilkman the mideval were disgusting pieces of shit back in those days of England. But at the same time, they weren't the only game in town, neither. And this sort of thing was going on long before rhem too.
      Hell... it's stil, going on in modern times, mostly known for by ISIS ...shit like beheadings... stuffing people of all ages, both male and female, into steel cages, and then either slowly lowering the steel cage into a swimming pool, or a lake. Or worse, setting everyone on fire I think they even used the cages for the nitric acid and tar pit executions as well.
      And once they were bored with all of those, they started lining up offenders on the street in a row with their wrists and ankles bound to immobilize them, then slowly driving a T-72 tank over them. Those who were executed by being shot in the back of the heads, or laden with explosives... they got off "easy" with those punishments, which if that were going to happen, at least those ways are fast and painless
      But I dont think any of those methods even compares to the Persians of 500 bc with their punishment of scaphism. That would be my worst nightmare come true

    • @dickmonkey-king1271
      @dickmonkey-king1271 2 года назад +33

      Yeah, I was going to say... 'please, for the love of God, stop mutilating my body in such horrendous ways, it is soooooo embarrassing'

    • @tomfrazier1103
      @tomfrazier1103 2 года назад +4

      Having enough self control to emit an occasional grunt is the only thing you can do on your way out.

    • @falaramal3979
      @falaramal3979 2 года назад +10

      It’s not for the victim. It’s a warning

  • @DyspotikOriginal
    @DyspotikOriginal 2 года назад +799

    That part where some would travel miles to witness an execution would bring the whole family. What a banger of a family outing eh?

    • @markeywestskies6503
      @markeywestskies6503 2 года назад +54

      Hey kids would you rather go visit Grandma and Gramps and play with the little piglets on their farm or take a trip to London for the next public hanging ...they're going to be using the gibbeting method!

    • @justinlast2lastharder749
      @justinlast2lastharder749 2 года назад +30

      @@markeywestskies6503 By "Play" do you mean "clean out their pens and other manual labor"? Because then you'd be accurate.

    • @davidhicks6509
      @davidhicks6509 2 года назад

      Absolutely! We should bring the practice back immediately for the organized shoplifters, Antifa, violent criminals, car jackets, rioters, and other “mostly peaceful” protesters that we see on tv daily!
      It would clean that inner city crime right up.

    • @watermelonsavage2914
      @watermelonsavage2914 2 года назад +15

      Well yeah, because of the popularity they would have whole festivals built around the events.

    • @cathryncampbell8555
      @cathryncampbell8555 2 года назад +10

      I often think of the crowd scene in "The Private Life of Henry VIII," where a jolly group of people are gathered to watch Anne Boleyn's beheading. Although this scene is *not* accurate where Anne was concerned, I think it describes what the execution of an ordinary criminal would look like. Everyone would want a good view, picnic baskets (or the medieval equivalent) would be produced, and the family would have a great time. Sort of like the ancient Romans attending the torture to death of early Christians in the amphitheatre....

  • @jamesdellaneve9005
    @jamesdellaneve9005 2 года назад +701

    Giblets. What a wonderful town adornment. The smell and parts of the corpse falling below must have really contributed to the community ambience.

    • @barsxsalicia
      @barsxsalicia 2 года назад +7

      😂🤣🤢

    • @chino3796
      @chino3796 2 года назад +17

      *Gibbets

    • @nospoon4799
      @nospoon4799 2 года назад

      @Lou Danny Malacts Britain is a criminal corporation. A lot will not involve themselves in such immoral behaviour. Besides, the swingers and child molesters get the best jobs. So what is the point?

    • @willdavey1565
      @willdavey1565 2 года назад +14

      ‘Bring out ya dead, bring out ya dead!’

    • @jamesdellaneve9005
      @jamesdellaneve9005 2 года назад

      @@willdavey1565 I’m not dead yet. Smack. Now you are!

  • @jeepliving1
    @jeepliving1 Год назад +45

    "Henry VIII had 72,000 of these so-called 'criminals' hung as a warning."
    Who was left to be warned?

    • @silviuvisan505
      @silviuvisan505 Год назад

      That was like 1 third of the population jesus christ he killed all men.

    • @user-zi8wh3wv2q
      @user-zi8wh3wv2q 3 месяца назад

      your ancestors

  • @theshadowswithin9896
    @theshadowswithin9896 2 года назад +604

    Life "back in the day" was really weird. People would travel from miles away and bring their whole families to watch execution and enjoy the festivities. People used to sit out on hills with their families, have picnics, and watch soldiers shoot each other during the revolutionary and civil wars.
    We don't have anything nearly as wholesome these days.

    • @nationalsocialist6590
      @nationalsocialist6590 2 года назад +65

      Great way to teach the kids not to be a criminal.

    • @Mr.Marbles
      @Mr.Marbles 2 года назад +114

      i mean we watch live streams of drone footage and reporters in war zones and also see gore videos on the internet. not much has changed, its just not as public anymore.

    • @elizabethoboril938
      @elizabethoboril938 2 года назад +45

      That's why none of the things we do to each other today shock me. We've always been a violent species. We just keep figuring out different ways to kill each other.

    • @SilkyLew
      @SilkyLew 2 года назад +25

      It's because they didn't have wifi. They were bored.

    • @janel.8921
      @janel.8921 2 года назад +16

      At one early American Civil War battle, a group of civilians had a picnic near the battle field. They had to run when the battle spread to their area.

  • @dongilleo9743
    @dongilleo9743 2 года назад +299

    It was to prevent "clipping coins" that some U.S. coins(the dime, quarter, half dollar and dollar) were made with a reeded edge. Those four denominations were originally made of silver. With that edge, someone could easily tell at glance if a coin had been clipped or shaved, and be confident that it still had it's full value and content of silver. Even though those coins no longer contain silver, they still are made with the reeding on the edge.

    • @mannpeach5894
      @mannpeach5894 2 года назад +12

      Also, the ridged edge was originally designed by Isaac Newton after his midlife crisis.

    • @martinphilip8998
      @martinphilip8998 2 года назад +8

      I have two pieces of eight. One is quite crude but the other has lines lines to delineate the proper edge. That one is dated in the 1700s. They both came from wrecks off the Isles of Scilly.

    • @similaritiesendhere
      @similaritiesendhere 2 года назад +3

      Good trivia.

    • @ddz1375
      @ddz1375 2 года назад +1

      @@martinphilip8998 shaving a haircut, two bits

    • @martinphilip8998
      @martinphilip8998 2 года назад +24

      @@ddz1375 About 45 years ago I bought a very cheap metal detector. Most of the coins I found were just because I had my head down and they were already at the surface. I was about 25 then and I decided to try my old school grounds. I was persistent and found two bits in the root of a bush right outside my first grade classroom. It was dated 1916. I still have every coin I found in that hobby. It turns out that lots a guys try out the park across the street for similar treasures. I like to bury foreign coins in the patch of park I can see from my kitchen. I’m washing dishes and some guy is scratching his head and puzzled why an 80 year old thrupenny bit was in the park. Hobbies are great.

  • @toby9999
    @toby9999 2 года назад +569

    The depravity and cruelty inherent in humanity knows no bounds.

    • @OmarAbdulMalikDHEdMPASPACPAPro
      @OmarAbdulMalikDHEdMPASPACPAPro 2 года назад +18

      IKR! Just when I think I've heard the WORST of humanity, there is ALWAYS something WORSE!😫

    • @felixc.3444
      @felixc.3444 2 года назад +2

      @@OmarAbdulMalikDHEdMPASPACPAPro it’s pretty spooky

    • @darthmalum6024
      @darthmalum6024 2 года назад +12

      Morals are subjetctive anyways, what You think is Bad for You, may be the greatest day ever for someone else.

    • @ellobo1326
      @ellobo1326 Год назад +27

      Humans are the most despicable creature to ever walk the earth.

    • @poppymoon777
      @poppymoon777 Год назад +1

      Agreed

  • @fliora4177
    @fliora4177 2 года назад +271

    It sounds kinda wired that hundreds of people watched executions but I think if executions we're open to the public in modern times the same amount of people would watch if not more

    • @SQUELCH-zj7il
      @SQUELCH-zj7il 2 года назад +58

      Yeah definitely. If the person sentenced was a peadophile, I'm sure people would buy first class tickets to watch them suffer.

    • @nicholas2113
      @nicholas2113 2 года назад

      I'd watch the hell out of an execution

    • @metalwellington
      @metalwellington 2 года назад +25

      They would be taking selfies next to the body

    • @GordoFabulous
      @GordoFabulous 2 года назад +8

      Dan Carlin reached the same conclusion in his "Painfotainment" episode.

    • @stickydickrick
      @stickydickrick 2 года назад +2

      i would watch

  • @thomfiel
    @thomfiel Год назад +25

    This is what the Bill of Rights refers to as "cruel and unusual punishment."

  • @Arterexius
    @Arterexius 2 года назад +79

    My fathers house is built on a former gallows hill. They found the remains of two gallows when digging out the basement to the house and it was later confirmed that that hill, was the primary execution hill, of the town it's now a part of. It's a little over 70 meters tall (about 230 feet) and any vegetation was likely cut down, in order to make the spectacle much more exciting to watch, as well as to deter any would-be criminals. The hill is located less than 50 meters (164 feet) from one of the primary roads to the city. A road which comes from a much larger trading town on Zealand, Denmark.

    • @myheartiswriting
      @myheartiswriting Год назад +8

      That sounds like a bad ass the beginning of a paranormal horror novel. Or any genre of novel really.

    • @Arterexius
      @Arterexius Год назад +4

      @@myheartiswriting True that, but it is the reality of the place. I think the best thing I've ever seen about the place, is when I was a kid, my younger sister threw a Halloween party + sleepover at the house and the entire thing ended up as one massive dare for her entire class. Good thing, as my siblings and I were never that popular in our classes. We're all massive geeks.

    • @cageybee7221
      @cageybee7221 Год назад +5

      that house is 10000% Haunted.

  • @adambruce1688
    @adambruce1688 2 года назад +43

    It's the little things that make you realize what a really, really, big jerk Henry VIII was.

    • @janeholmes9374
      @janeholmes9374 Год назад +1

      And all the royals, makes u sick to think of the power of life and death they had

  • @iisms1999
    @iisms1999 Год назад +14

    I only discovered this channel about a month ago but it's already one of my favourites, so much info on so many medieval topics!

  • @80sMetalHead
    @80sMetalHead 2 года назад +16

    The BEST thing about Friday’s !! Thanks Again. 👍👍

  • @Issac_The_Last_N7
    @Issac_The_Last_N7 2 года назад +158

    This is truly 'Medieval Madness '
    Glad we don't live in those times

    • @skwalka6372
      @skwalka6372 2 года назад +13

      This is nothing compared with what awaits you when climate change kicks in high gear. You can't even begin to imagine...

    • @the_kombinator
      @the_kombinator 2 года назад +29

      @@skwalka6372 LOL

    • @monad_tcp
      @monad_tcp 2 года назад

      @@skwalka6372 that isn't going to happen.
      Climate change just means migration. If you live near the tropics you already screwed.
      The closer to the artic you get, the best are the conditions.
      If you are poor, you are going to just die for the lack of water.
      Border control will just be business as usual.

    • @monad_tcp
      @monad_tcp 2 года назад

      It's not going to be that bad, you are going to see mass migration from tropics to artics by whoever is rich.
      Then those extreme gated communities are going to be very lawful against migration.
      It's nothing different than what already happens in the Mexico border with the US.
      Except that probably will happen between the northern habitable states and the souther uninhabitable ones.
      Just extend border control from Mexico inside the US.
      That's the worst case scenario.
      The best case is just the republic weakening and the states not allowing migration between them by blocking land owning from "aliens" from other states.
      That basically locks you where you live.
      So if you wanna survive climate change, you better buy land the closest you can from the artic tropics, while you can and its not extreme expensive.

    • @ballaking1000
      @ballaking1000 2 года назад +7

      @@the_kombinator Ignorance is bliss.

  • @jacquimg2469
    @jacquimg2469 Год назад +15

    It’s hard to believe the depths the human soul will sink to.

  • @gavhenrad
    @gavhenrad Год назад +121

    Whenever I hear about the horrible punishments from the past I always think how many of them were probably innocent.

    • @lemur6871
      @lemur6871 Год назад +12

      Ugh, should innocence really have any weight in earning our sympathy? We still need to improve how we treat criminals.

    • @johnstark4723
      @johnstark4723 Год назад +4

      No one is completely innocent

    • @somerandomperson6511
      @somerandomperson6511 Год назад +15

      @@lemur6871 criminals are already treated way better than they should be, in the US

    • @brainwashingdetergent4128
      @brainwashingdetergent4128 Год назад +10

      @@lemur6871 i say we treat them exactly how they treat others.

    • @lemur6871
      @lemur6871 Год назад +9

      @@brainwashingdetergent4128 What you say is true justice. I believe we need to have more compassion than that, though. An eye for an eye doesn't rehabilitate or improve anyone. I think our corrections systems should be less punishment and more rehabilitation.

  • @aroundandround
    @aroundandround Год назад +12

    Bringing the family with kids out to see a hanging probably ensured that the kids never misbehaved.

    • @user-zi8wh3wv2q
      @user-zi8wh3wv2q 3 месяца назад +1

      yeah crime stopped in england

    • @Kathy_1991
      @Kathy_1991 15 дней назад

      ​@@user-zi8wh3wv2q😂

  • @ColonelSanders17
    @ColonelSanders17 2 года назад +218

    I know that the crowd would make fun of the person getting executed. Kids would mock the victims, men and women would have a good laugh. My English ancestors were very unsavory by today's standards.

  • @KillRacingNotHorses
    @KillRacingNotHorses 2 года назад +6

    Just recently discovered this channel. It is truly brilliant. THANK YOU!

    • @jessikatkins1173
      @jessikatkins1173 2 года назад

      You've said it all for me.
      I'm also very grateful for this channel.
      And as I have a terribly short attention span at time's I appreciate the shorter episodes, but they are still full of great content. I subscribed straight away!

  • @novitasiji9723
    @novitasiji9723 Год назад +19

    During the 1965 coup in my country, (to shorthen the complicated long history) my mom, she was a young girl living in a village said when she heard the gun roaring she knew some people accused to be the "communists" were put in a squared 2x1 meter wide hole, that one hole was crammed in for 10 people standing waiting to be gunned down and burried there. Not to mention other horrible tortures. My mom sometimes she said went to the location when the gun shot heard in the morning so she could start walking to that doomed riverbank quite far from her house to watch the execution. In two decades to come the area was considered spooky that we as kids sometimes could see skeletons and bones and some jeweleries scattered on the ground. Later on my mom married my dad who happened to be one of the young member of the party, got sentenced but escaped death. They did not make the sweet couple. My childhood was familiar with violent narcistic dearest of a mom...that one day as i grew up taller and bigger than my mother i asked her in awe: i wonder between you and dad, which one is the real trained "communist". I learnt that violence could be engraved within us without us knowing it. But when we quite aware of what was going on, we could end the circle.

  • @johnm1720
    @johnm1720 Год назад +13

    Religion has brought so much joy throughout history.

    • @futuristica1710
      @futuristica1710 Год назад +6

      Humans need no religion to do this. Stalin laughs in his grave, when you say these things.

    • @spaceace1006
      @spaceace1006 Год назад

      When you Repent and Find Jesus, you don't need religion!

    • @johnm1720
      @johnm1720 Год назад

      @@futuristica1710 you're not wrong

  • @TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs
    @TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs 2 года назад +29

    It's nice to see that your RUclips video and now hopefully your channel has been blessed by the algorithm :D

    • @dankmanx6196
      @dankmanx6196 2 года назад

      my brother in christ, why are YOU here

  • @someoneout-there2165
    @someoneout-there2165 2 года назад +5

    Just found this channel and already subscribed. Hope you keep making content. I think your channel will keep growing. 💖

  • @Hugsey1984
    @Hugsey1984 2 года назад +6

    Just found your channel, and as grim as it is really enjoyed learning about the past, now to the previous videos.

  • @marcye3649
    @marcye3649 2 года назад +2

    The algorithm stinks! I’ve been binging and I always have to go back to your channel to get the next one. They keep pushing really large channels or stuff I’ve already seen. A lot of stuff I’ve already seen.
    Anyway! Love this channel so much! You’re keeping me busy this weekend

  • @brotherbrad1617
    @brotherbrad1617 2 года назад +3

    Your videos are very informative. Hopefully the channel blows up soon.

  • @helencheckley7536
    @helencheckley7536 2 года назад +18

    I’m so happy I just found your channel. I’ve always been interested in the medieval times.

    • @bid84
      @bid84 Год назад

      Hope you hang around

  • @CrossTimbersSon
    @CrossTimbersSon 2 года назад +86

    It’s interesting that the depravity of humanity might be taking a recess or be clouded over with thoughts of being far more “civilized”, or “evolved” but power, greed and war can easily motivate darkness to emerge back to the surface.
    Reminded me of a scene from JRR Tolkien’s the Hobbit -
    “Galadriel:
    Mithrandir... why the Halfling?
    Gandalf:
    ...I don't know. Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I have found. I've found it is the small things, everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keeps the darkness at bay. Simple acts of kindness and love. Why Bilbo Baggins? Perhaps it is because I am afraid... and he gives me courage.”

    • @halyak92
      @halyak92 2 года назад +5

      Love the hobbit quote, well said!

    • @ddz1375
      @ddz1375 2 года назад +3

      Spot on. Bilbo Baggins lives.

    • @tinamenon1593
      @tinamenon1593 2 года назад +1

      Tolkien's requiem to the horrors of WW1

    • @fm-9129
      @fm-9129 2 года назад +6

      Yup, when people reset to default they become psychos again. It’s who we are by large. People obsess over the colors of skin, for example. People are nuts.

    • @Vroomfondle1066
      @Vroomfondle1066 Год назад +2

      Ah, but haven't some of the greatest cruelties arrisen in civilised cultures?

  • @rfletch62
    @rfletch62 2 года назад +22

    Forget your vampires, werewolves and space monsters. If you fall into the hands of the humans, you don't have a prayer.

  • @winterkindg2509
    @winterkindg2509 2 года назад +11

    These videos are so well made. Your channel deserves so many more subscribers!

  • @psychicrenegade
    @psychicrenegade Год назад +9

    Those hanging cages where people were left to starve, freeze, or whatever else...have freaked me out since I was a kid and first watched the movie "Willow."

    • @josebro352
      @josebro352 5 месяцев назад

      I remember that scene. Madmartigan was locked in one.

    • @PrincessHVHHDSSS
      @PrincessHVHHDSSS 4 месяца назад

      Same here. Horrific.😢

    • @bobbriggs9748
      @bobbriggs9748 3 месяца назад

      Lol, what do you call an epileptic in a gibbet? ....... a flibbety gibbet. Ahahah not so scary now.

  • @EaglesInHD
    @EaglesInHD 2 года назад +7

    You do an amazing job editing these videos and choosing images, keep up the great work! Glad the algorithm brought me here

  • @jacquelynamina4799
    @jacquelynamina4799 2 года назад +31

    “When you hang from a gibbet, for the sport of your own crows-then, we shall have peace.”

  • @sirlawrence2284
    @sirlawrence2284 2 года назад

    Looks like I'm kinda early. Nice video, keep it up brother.

  • @j.cd5
    @j.cd5 2 года назад +8

    I enjoy your videos, sir, thank you.

  • @congozilla
    @congozilla 2 года назад +190

    The Danish Bog Man wasn't hung, they found him with a braided leather cord around his neck, but I've been to see him and clearly his throat had been cut. His curators say the leather cord was probably used for leading him around, like a dog's leash.

    • @BonnScott1980
      @BonnScott1980 2 года назад +9

      When I see his pic it always jumps out at me that he still has his leather hat and the braided leather rope. It seems like the material and labor to make them would have made them too valuable to waste.

    • @fiddleback1568
      @fiddleback1568 2 года назад +9

      Or dragging the body to the bog.

    • @Vincinate
      @Vincinate 2 года назад +32

      He was hanged, his neck appears to be cut because the rope dug into his skin when he was hung. His tongue was found to be distended which is consistent with someone who is hanged.

    • @congozilla
      @congozilla 2 года назад +11

      @@Vincinate If you were standing there looking at him chatting it up with Gravbolleman's curators you wouldn't be talking that way. You'd be listening and thinking, and not discharging crazy ass statements about how you know more than they do, Mr. Armchair Forensic Scientist.

    • @BonnScott1980
      @BonnScott1980 2 года назад +5

      @@Vincinate Dont you think it's strange they would put him somewhere they knew he would be preserved? They also stored a couple types of butter in these bogs because they knew it would keep it fresh. They hanged a man and put him where they knew he would be preserved.

  • @i_unfriend_u
    @i_unfriend_u Год назад +12

    As fascinating as I've always found the Medieval period, it's insane how killing was such a common practice of everyday life back then. And people didn't just enjoy killing; they enjoyed being as heinous and brutal as possible. Even more interesting that this has gone on for the majority of human history, and it's only been in the last couple of centuries that people realized how atrocious it is. Hopefully we continue to evolve from our old ways.

    • @From_A_Diverging_Timeline
      @From_A_Diverging_Timeline Год назад +1

      Humans can still be just as brutal. But yeah back then life was way harder and more violent and brutal. There are still many bad places and things happening in present day unfortunately.

  • @JonnyCrackers
    @JonnyCrackers 2 года назад +87

    There's a misconception that when asphyxiated by hanging, these people were conscious and suffering up until death because they can be seen struggling. The truth is that you actually lose consciousness rather quickly (typically within mere seconds due to the inability for the blood to reach the brain), but the body continues to struggle reflexively. Death this way sounds much longer and torturous than it actually is.

    • @nathanbell6962
      @nathanbell6962 Год назад +4

      Yes look at choke holds in UFC

    • @batfurs3001
      @batfurs3001 Год назад +3

      Even when the neck is broken does the body still flop about for up to several minutes depending on the level of stress the person was going through (which you could imagine would be a lot)
      If you've ever culled a rabbit with the broomstick method or decapitated a chicken you'll know what I mean

    • @Railgun3rd
      @Railgun3rd Год назад +3

      As a survivor. I can tell you. Not always.

    • @1312x1312
      @1312x1312 Год назад +2

      First time huh?

    • @Xezlec
      @Xezlec Год назад

      It depends on the details.

  • @geoffhipwell2198
    @geoffhipwell2198 2 года назад +5

    Yes 👍 You've got to make more of this type of Content.

  • @IIIAmTheObserver
    @IIIAmTheObserver 2 года назад +7

    Honestly I was never really that interested in history, mainly because I sucked at it back in school. But this channel made me really interested in at least medieval times. It's crazy to think that all of this happened only several hundreds of years ago. And it's amazing how different the world is in this day and age, how much has changed across the entire globe in such a short time.

    • @justpaddingtonbear
      @justpaddingtonbear 2 года назад +2

      I wasn't really interested in history until I went to college where you can choose what speciality you'd like to study with multiple perspectives.

    • @dreamcrusher112
      @dreamcrusher112 2 года назад

      Lots of this still happens today around the world.

    • @gsk5161
      @gsk5161 Год назад +1

      Keep voting Democrat and anything is possible

    • @reidwhitton6248
      @reidwhitton6248 Год назад

      It's the Republicans that are for the death penalty.

  • @samanthataylor5475
    @samanthataylor5475 2 года назад +1

    Brilliant channel , thanks

  • @RichRobinson
    @RichRobinson 5 месяцев назад

    Great channel, m’man. Learning a lot, liked a subscribed.

  • @brandonperry857
    @brandonperry857 2 года назад +14

    Imagine a family outing being something as dark as watching a man slowly die from exposure. Humanity was so dark back then. Although its no better these days we just learned to lie and mask it in false morality more efficiently.

    • @whiteskull1067
      @whiteskull1067 2 года назад +3

      Depending on your family's breeding, there are many humans today who would be completely appalled to torture or needless suffering. Some humans evolved, most did not. Most human are still ruled by instinct and not "humanity" which makes them more like animals than men. Something as common as cheating on your spouse betrays how evolved a person really is. When you put instant gratification before long term happiness/peace, you act more like an animal than a human.

    • @whiteskull1067
      @whiteskull1067 2 года назад

      There are some people who still perform inbreeding. Just like dogs. Most people puke at the thought of inbreeding. In that sense, there is already a difference in evolution.

    • @hensonlaura
      @hensonlaura Год назад +1

      Speak for yourself!

  • @curiodyssey3867
    @curiodyssey3867 2 года назад +4

    Hell yes! You got me straight hooked on your videos

  • @0xdarpy
    @0xdarpy 2 года назад

    love this channel!

  • @MagdaleneDivine
    @MagdaleneDivine 2 года назад +122

    That's creepy how the Jewish hanging is the hanged man's card in TArot decks

    • @seenundercygnus6870
      @seenundercygnus6870 2 года назад +15

      I think it makes sense because coins are an important symbol in tarot and that hanging was for coin cutting.
      Kinda adds to the symbolism. Just desserts for the period. In a sense.

    • @schnoz2372
      @schnoz2372 2 года назад +2

      @@seenundercygnus6870 what does it have to do with coin cutting

    • @blastermaster5039
      @blastermaster5039 2 года назад +4

      @@schnoz2372 A lot.

    • @ariadneschild8460
      @ariadneschild8460 2 года назад +11

      @@schnoz2372 it was the punishment for coin cutting as stated at the start of the video.

    • @WhuDhat
      @WhuDhat 2 года назад

      @Hol Codd lol.

  • @TINSTAAFL1
    @TINSTAAFL1 Год назад +4

    The voice of the narrator sounds cheerful as like he's reading the daily menu. Those were fun days.

  • @davidsiracuse6672
    @davidsiracuse6672 2 года назад +23

    At the rate this world is going we may see the medieval days make a comeback.

    • @barsxsalicia
      @barsxsalicia 2 года назад +3

      Should*

    • @bcfcbennjy99
      @bcfcbennjy99 2 года назад +5

      @@barsxsalicia No

    • @thisplaceisazoo
      @thisplaceisazoo Год назад

      The antichrist beast system is rising right now. Probably only have a few years left. Repent now while there is time.

    • @tubbalcain
      @tubbalcain Год назад +2

      @@barsxsalicia sounds good, hey...until it's you, and your loved ones, that are targeted.

    • @michaelknight4828
      @michaelknight4828 Год назад

      History repeats itself!

  • @Grimlore82
    @Grimlore82 2 года назад +26

    I run horror and low/dark fantasy D&D games. Your videos are such an inspiring resource. Thank you for your content. I just subscribed.

  • @jc-qd6be
    @jc-qd6be 2 года назад +1

    very interesting...great work.

  • @coloradostrong
    @coloradostrong Год назад +15

    Bring this back for any and all members of the WEF.

  • @aminoto-3
    @aminoto-3 2 года назад +8

    We Brits loved a good Gibbeting… that’s why there are so many place names celebrating the torture and execution process.. there’s a Gibbets Cross near me..

  • @michailokeefeMooMoo
    @michailokeefeMooMoo 2 года назад +3

    Very interesting and informative video

  • @Xehemoth
    @Xehemoth 2 года назад +25

    Back when "I dont know for certain if you did it, but you'll do" was the order of the day.
    Fun times!

    • @davehooper4498
      @davehooper4498 2 года назад +2

      That's funny as fuck :D

    • @ledanoir1239
      @ledanoir1239 2 года назад +1

      Glad It no longer happens! Ehm

    • @Xehemoth
      @Xehemoth 2 года назад +1

      @@ledanoir1239 For the MOST part. But hey, Justice is a manmade thing. The systems in place here in 1st world countries are always evolving, which is more than most civilizations can say.
      For most countries, even just caring if its right or wrong would be a huge step in the right direction. A lot of places just dont care and its nothing to throw someone away forever.

  • @hans6138
    @hans6138 2 года назад +14

    Underrated channel

  • @K7classicrockfan
    @K7classicrockfan 2 года назад +5

    My grandpa saw a hanging when he was 6. Crazy.

  • @JosephP8
    @JosephP8 Год назад

    amazing research! Bravo :)

  • @tommyrex7632
    @tommyrex7632 Год назад

    The intro animation is so cool and creative.

  • @jp-um2fr
    @jp-um2fr 2 года назад +7

    You really should do Edward II at Berkeley Castle. 'His face was fearful to behold'. I'll spoil it if I write more.

  • @celticrebel5229
    @celticrebel5229 2 года назад +33

    I recommend the Audiobook on James berry he was a British Executioner its actually free here on YT If i remember correctly the time period is 1800 ish he was a hangman and documented every person he hung and went to see the condemned before hanging he lists all the crimes and goes in to great detail about the drop method of hanging and how much weight is need to kill an individual

    • @Luna-wg6ic
      @Luna-wg6ic 2 года назад +4

      Sid Dernley, A Hangman's Diary, story of an assistant executioner who worked with Albert Pierrepoint and others. Very good book.

    • @celticrebel5229
      @celticrebel5229 Год назад +7

      @@Luna-wg6ic despite it being a looked down upon job there is something very interesting on listening to the tales they tell.

    • @trentbrownstone1481
      @trentbrownstone1481 Год назад +3

      Neat!

    • @bravo2zero796
      @bravo2zero796 Год назад

      Hanged*

    • @JelMain
      @JelMain Год назад +2

      @@Luna-wg6ic Pierrepoint's is also in print. He was the executioner who finally got the drops right.

  • @TheKeithvidz
    @TheKeithvidz 2 года назад

    Saved your vid as I have many for my own medieval fiction series. Macabre you are, but as is my stories.

  • @sodamncutestud2
    @sodamncutestud2 2 года назад +33

    Very small percentage of those executed actually deserved it.

    • @jamesdellaneve9005
      @jamesdellaneve9005 2 года назад +1

      Knowing that means, don’t be an idiot and give them a reason. Like today’s young male running from the cops. Nothing good can come of it.

    • @gnarthdarkanen7464
      @gnarthdarkanen7464 2 года назад

      THAT would depend on whom you ask, and how, precisely, you define "deserved"...
      Humans are subject to emotions, and one of them is Hate... Another is Rage. They're both very powerful and can easily blind us to sensibility. In truth, we are animals. We are very much a natural part of the natural orders of things on our planet. Literally everywhere else, life is a violent competition. Stands to reason, we'd be a violent and competitive lot...
      The braying jack-ass who held you up in traffic certainly DESERVED more than the bird you flew that he didn't even notice as you passed... Even though you certainly did NOT deserve the brake check by that lunatic yesterday. It was MAYBE "cut a little close" but your lane change was safe enough and nobody got hurt.
      Right? ;o)

    • @Prodigi50
      @Prodigi50 2 года назад +4

      @@jamesdellaneve9005 The cops shoot even if you don’t run…

    • @jamesdellaneve9005
      @jamesdellaneve9005 2 года назад +1

      @@Prodigi50 If you are talking about the Akron guy. He shot first and if he didn’t run, he’d be alive. Once he fired, they had no way of knowing if/when he would turn around and fire. Only later did they find the gun on the front seat of the car. I am sure that the balaclava was to prevent COVID.

    • @Prodigi50
      @Prodigi50 2 года назад +2

      @@jamesdellaneve9005 Jayland Walker was unarmed when they shot him. And no I wasn’t talking about Jayland Walker, I was talking about Philando Castile, who did everything right and still got shot.

  • @brunopinheiro1632
    @brunopinheiro1632 2 года назад +25

    Glorious times to be a sadist 👍🍷 amazing channel. Watching from Portugal 🇵🇹

    • @Xezlec
      @Xezlec Год назад

      These are not bad times for sadists today either, thanks to RUclips (and the BDSM subculture)!

    • @donaldbadders3970
      @donaldbadders3970 Год назад

      @@Xezlec I would like to meet a sadist

  • @jamesdellaneve9005
    @jamesdellaneve9005 2 года назад +5

    The ridges on the coins was to make coin clipping more difficult. This was Isaac Newtons job for awhile.

  • @chk3700
    @chk3700 2 года назад +1

    Loved the listen
    Great speaker thanku
    PeaceLoveHappiness

  • @lakephillips8381
    @lakephillips8381 Год назад

    youtube never fails to give me great ideas.

  • @christopherlinindoll1104
    @christopherlinindoll1104 2 года назад +8

    Gibbeits remind me of Mad Mortigan from the movie Willow.

  • @lunchymunchy2984
    @lunchymunchy2984 2 года назад +34

    Very interesting... and pretty gruesome! Really interested to find the word ‘gala’ used for gallows and I’m wondering, given that hanging was often a public event or spectacle, weather this is the origin of the use of the same word, (gala), used to refer to a public event particularly of celebration or competition, here in the U.K..... any thoughts?

    • @justinlast2lastharder749
      @justinlast2lastharder749 2 года назад +7

      It's from the Latin. Both Italian and Spanish use the the Word Gala for Festive Occasion, so it had to have descended from the Latin that both were born of. From there it went to France and became celebrating or rejoicing and there likely is where it transfered to English

    • @lunchymunchy2984
      @lunchymunchy2984 2 года назад +4

      @@justinlast2lastharder749 Thank you very much! That’s interesting... if you like the origin of words and sayings I can recommend a fantastic read/listen “The Etymologicon” by mark forsyth aka the inky fool... you’ll love it!

    • @briancrawford8751
      @briancrawford8751 Год назад

      Any thoughts? Yeah, it's not the same word.

    • @hensonlaura
      @hensonlaura Год назад

      @@briancrawford8751 shhh... the interesting people are talking.

    • @briancrawford8751
      @briancrawford8751 Год назад

      @@hensonlaura Etymologically, the two words aren't the same.

  • @mitsunori222000
    @mitsunori222000 2 года назад +2

    Good iconography and measured commentary.

  • @VivaSepulchre
    @VivaSepulchre Год назад

    I love this channel

  • @deemckay7770
    @deemckay7770 2 года назад +16

    They had a cage like that at an old house in my hood. I always wondered why it was there, on the outside,hanging there.

    • @StevenSiew2
      @StevenSiew2 2 года назад

      It's for you if you misbehaved.

    • @rippedtorn2310
      @rippedtorn2310 2 года назад +10

      And you never found out ? Just accepted that there was a European mideival torture cage hanging? Jesus

    • @rollo6038
      @rollo6038 2 года назад +3

      @@rippedtorn2310 👍😂😂

  • @sarethums
    @sarethums 2 года назад +7

    I'm sure you probably do but did you know there is a pinball table called medieval madness, arguably one of the best ever made, its a classic.

    • @hicknopunk
      @hicknopunk 2 года назад +2

      It is. Black Knight 2000, Medival Madness and the Star Trek: Next Gen tables are my "go-to" pinball games at any arcade. My best Black Knight 2000 game lasted over a half an hour! I love these machines.

    • @markmcglone2871
      @markmcglone2871 2 года назад

      i have 1975 toledo pin ball machine
      kids today cant play pinball,

    • @sarethums
      @sarethums 2 года назад

      @@hicknopunk same, literally those 2 machines.

    • @hicknopunk
      @hicknopunk 2 года назад +2

      @@sarethums 👍👍

    • @hicknopunk
      @hicknopunk 2 года назад +2

      @@markmcglone2871 there is a bar, 2 towns over with about 20 tables. Every month or 2 weeks I try to go there. Digital pinball is okay, but literally nothing feels the same as a real table to me

  • @bonniefranklin6652
    @bonniefranklin6652 Год назад

    Thank you.

  • @blueneeson9888
    @blueneeson9888 Год назад

    Thanks a Brilliant Video From Blue

  • @crispinaske8293
    @crispinaske8293 Год назад +3

    Thankyou for the accurate description of my very distant ancestor"s demise, as there have been a few variations of it given, as an aside it was said at his execution that concern was shown as on being forced into the cage one of his shoes came off.

  • @hicknopunk
    @hicknopunk 2 года назад +25

    Before drop hanging, friends, family were often allowed to grab on to the legs of the hanged person after they hanged a while, unless the person being killed was really hated.

    • @kanderson8965
      @kanderson8965 2 года назад +7

      dear god…

    • @hicknopunk
      @hicknopunk 2 года назад +4

      @@kanderson8965 yeah...I can hardly conceive of doing that. It wold be an awful choice either way.

    • @duncanlaing6078
      @duncanlaing6078 2 года назад

      That didnt happen. Evidence evidence

    • @thorfinsky1427
      @thorfinsky1427 2 года назад +6

      @@duncanlaing6078 tik tok or it didn't happen.......🤣

    • @metalwellington
      @metalwellington 2 года назад +4

      That's where the saying "pulling your leg" comes from

  • @shimry2304
    @shimry2304 Год назад

    what is the name of the place featured in the very last frames of this video?

  • @lanceduke3522
    @lanceduke3522 2 года назад +4

    Port Arthur penal colony was the last place in the British Empire to use death by Gibbet in 1853

  • @joshuahauser9050
    @joshuahauser9050 2 года назад +7

    “Murranos” can also be referred to as “Conversos” and it is less offensive as “Murrano” translates closely to “Swine”.

  • @Witchofthewoods.
    @Witchofthewoods. Год назад +3

    Everyone gets your best Sunday dress on... we're taking the wagon into town to witness another public hanging! ☠️ Picnic anyone? No doubt everyone's extra excited at the prospect of "HEADS WILL ROLL" 🗣️

  • @tarafall1
    @tarafall1 2 года назад +2

    The portrait of Aske appeared to be about 200 years after the portrait of Henry VI, randomly shown whilst discussing Robert Constable. They must have just found some portraiture and thought “ oh well, that looks old, that’ll do”!

  • @perfesser944
    @perfesser944 Год назад +2

    Look for a series of engravings called "The Horrors of War" by Spanish painter Francisco de Goya, to see further examples of these tortures in 19th. century Spain (and presumably all over Europe). Also, there is a book called "The Art of Killing" (very hard, but not impossible to find) by Brazilian writer Daniel Sueiro, which depicts all the methods of torture and killing used by man through the ages.

  • @whowantsmymeat
    @whowantsmymeat 2 года назад +12

    Crazy how you can die by just being upside down for too long.

    • @debbieschultz9768
      @debbieschultz9768 2 года назад

      All the blood goes to the head. Your breathing is cut off eventually. Horrible thought

    • @Markycarandbikestuff
      @Markycarandbikestuff Год назад +1

      Look up the story of the guy that got stuck in Nutty Putty cave, horrible way to die.

    • @whowantsmymeat
      @whowantsmymeat Год назад +1

      @@Markycarandbikestuff I've seen that, unimaginable. I'd be ok with never going spelunking.

    • @wiseoldfool
      @wiseoldfool Год назад +1

      Now I understand why the English transported criminals to Australia (lol).

  • @Saffron-sugar
    @Saffron-sugar Год назад +12

    In strangulation, unconsciousness usually occurs in 17 seconds. Although actual death does take a few minutes and the body of the unconscious person may twitch around before death.

    • @Bialy_1
      @Bialy_1 Год назад +3

      Silly idea that you can write exact number... in martial arts with proper technique you are out in few seconds and in the same time if you just gonna try to use a rope then you need to take into consideration that the victim muscles on the neck are there to protect the neck and in case of a strong man he can easly be consious for minutes.

    • @sigridbohne
      @sigridbohne Год назад +2

      The emergency doctor told me my ex-husband was unconscious a few seconds after he hanged himself and didn't feel anything anymore.
      To be honest, I would have wish him the experience of hanging a little longer

  • @RSTAR171
    @RSTAR171 2 года назад +2

    New to the channel, great content!

  • @katrinegadegaard1241
    @katrinegadegaard1241 2 года назад +27

    Now I'm not going to say I'm fundamentally any better, I just live in different circumstances, but it really is disturbing to see the level of brutality and depravity that was the norm back then. In many parts of the world it still is, I know.
    Shows something about human nature and the mind boggling capacity for perverse cruelty, which is not very nice see 🙈

    • @mattd6085
      @mattd6085 Год назад +2

      Cruelty hasn't gone away with time, we just got much more efficient at it

    • @larryking2697
      @larryking2697 Год назад

      Although there is no shortage of evil or low intellect people today, the world was really full of them the further back you go. Without fear of reprisal, the world (back then and today as well) would be chaotic. People would kill, rob and rape everywhere. Look at recidivism now where criminal go through revolving door and are release all the time. I'm not saying we should hang people as examples, but people are doing heinous things and only getting minimal sentences. If there is no fear of punishment, the world would devolve in short order........

    • @AxionSmurf
      @AxionSmurf Год назад

      The manner in which you became a someone better than a killer is irrelevant. Whether or not you are one is. The circumstances of today permit you to be a killer. Our guns are better than ever. Bombs can be made from Internet-acquired materials. But I suspect you're not one. Be proud you haven't wreaked massive havoc. It's quite all right to have such pride.

  • @rick2112rkrk
    @rick2112rkrk 2 года назад +6

    "Fun" fact...the English band Spandau Ballet (Hit song "True), gets their name from the dance hanged prisoners did at the end of the short drop method at Spandau prison.

    • @thebes56
      @thebes56 2 года назад

      I think it was from the Spandau machine gun

  • @pantherplatform
    @pantherplatform 2 года назад +16

    Before there were lobotomies there were medieval torture devices and annoying music playing in the background...

    • @kirstiehiorns2702
      @kirstiehiorns2702 2 года назад +1

      the annoying music of today is worse than torture

  • @SuperVolsung
    @SuperVolsung Год назад

    There is a wonderful and elegant simplicity in putting someone in a metal cage exposed to the elements and just leaving them there - Somewhat like a visible oubliette.

  • @zod56
    @zod56 2 года назад

    What is the name of the castle shown at the end of the video?

  • @Ucho469
    @Ucho469 2 года назад +16

    Nobody wants to talk about the taboo, but everybody knows we are just the same as them. The only thing that keeps us repressed and contained being the social rules of the system.

    • @aarong9128
      @aarong9128 2 года назад +1

      You just told on yourself.

    • @wwondertwin
      @wwondertwin 2 года назад +1

      Some of have a strong revulsion to that stuff, which is also called "empathy". Statistically those without empathy are minority. You don't need social rules when you have functional mirror neurons.

    • @kirstiehiorns2702
      @kirstiehiorns2702 2 года назад

      we have a choice. public suffering isnt mine..whether now or then i would get away. my memories of english guys in my teens tells me that ime not surprised that a crude blood bath was okay. theres a crude and violent streak there among some

    • @mattd6085
      @mattd6085 Год назад

      @@kirstiehiorns2702 Are you suggesting English men are more violent than others?

    • @kirstiehiorns2702
      @kirstiehiorns2702 Год назад

      yes

  • @bessiemann7468
    @bessiemann7468 2 года назад +10

    I can't imagine going to a hanging much less taking children with me

    • @reidwhitton6248
      @reidwhitton6248 Год назад

      It was entertainment for nice white folks in the south when they tortured some poor black man to death. It was announced in the newspapers so citizens could plan to attend.

  • @joeanderson8839
    @joeanderson8839 Год назад

    I sure am glad that we have theme parks, museums, art galleries, concerts, sports events, movies, and other types of modern entertainment where I can take my family.

  • @boodro2122
    @boodro2122 2 года назад +1

    How absolutely terrifying and macabre....

  • @benmayne6159
    @benmayne6159 2 года назад +5

    Theses a hill a few kms out of the city i live in called “Gibbet hill”. The lasted person to be hanged and Gibbeted was in the early 1800’s for murder. He killed a rich man that had raped his daughter. Just before Gibbet hill is the drive way to the poor father property where there’s still a patch of yellow wildflowers in the field. Where the daughter was rape when she was picking the flowers one day.

    • @Spingerex
      @Spingerex Год назад

      The fucking injustice is goddamn frustrating in this comment of yours.

  • @Cormano980
    @Cormano980 2 года назад +71

    I recommend reading Frantz Schmidt's diary ,it is an invaluable insight to an executioner's life and execution methods , he wrote down every one of them

    • @Luna-wg6ic
      @Luna-wg6ic 2 года назад +2

      I really want to. Can you tell me where to get a copy?

    • @coloradostrong
      @coloradostrong Год назад +8

      @@Luna-wg6ic In 3 seconds I did a quick copy/paste on the name, and found dozens of books, audibles and videos. Unreal you are that Simple Minded to even ask "Can you tell me where to get a copy?" 🙄

    • @Luna-wg6ic
      @Luna-wg6ic Год назад +3

      @@coloradostrong So I'm assuming you now have a copy of his diary then? Or just a load of other stuff that isn't his diary.

    • @lionbar999
      @lionbar999 Год назад +5

      I read this last year, it paints a picture of a guy just doing a job to the best of his ability. It also goes into some detail about his life long fight with the authorities to have the imposed social stigma of being an executioner removed from his family so that his children could have better lives.

    • @Luna-wg6ic
      @Luna-wg6ic Год назад

      @@lionbar999 He sounds a very interesting man, almost the opposite of Jack Ketch.

  • @algorythmico
    @algorythmico Год назад +1

    Fun fact: during the persecutions around the XV-XVI century in Spain, converted jews were called "marranos" which means pig, the word has also acquired the connotation of dirty (because of the pig). They were called so because the upheld their beliefs in secrecy although they had converted to avoid persecution.

  • @5amH45lam
    @5amH45lam 2 года назад +2

    Matteo didn't shed a single tear! Nails!