Pigs, Laughter & Road Rage | 8 Bizarre Ways to Die in The Middle Ages…

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  • Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
  • The Middle Ages were turbulent times. Constant warfare and disease meant that millions of people died all across the world. Some of the ways that death came upon them can still be recognised today, some are a little more imaginative. These eight ways to die give us an insight into the daily lives of the Medievals, their attitudes and the conditions in which they lived and subsequently died.
    0:00 Introduction
    0:37 Drink
    1:41 Fly
    2:46 Road Rage
    3:49 Pig
    4:31 Laughter
    6:14 Faking it
    8:15 Karma
    9:35 A Crown for a King
    🎶🎶 Music by CO.AG: / @co.agmusic
    Narrated by James Wade
    Edited by James Wade & Adam Longster
    Thank you for watching.
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Комментарии • 175

  • @gaylewinds4808
    @gaylewinds4808 2 года назад +373

    I love how everyone being killed in paintings from this time period look either content with their lot in life or just mildly put out.

    • @unkledoda420
      @unkledoda420 2 года назад +42

      "...content with their lot in life or just mildly put out"
      🤣👍 Perfectly worded. I will never look at another painting from this time period without thinking of this comment.

    • @tyrlant2189
      @tyrlant2189 2 года назад +2

      They probably saw dead and dying ppl on a very regular basis. They ate meals in coffins atop bodies and juggled bones in the streets. Why do they suck so hard at depicting in art something they saw in life so often? Maybe they don't suck n people look calmer than we expect as they die?

    • @trevcam6892
      @trevcam6892 2 года назад

      Just what I was thinking. Thomas Becket looks quite happy to have a sword stuck in his head.

    • @jordanhicks5131
      @jordanhicks5131 2 года назад +57

      *sword going into head*
      "Well darn, THATS gonna ruin the weekend plans then...."

    • @Prodigi50
      @Prodigi50 2 года назад +25

      Creepily enough that’s somewhat realistic. I saw a photo of a man getting Death by a Thousand Cuts and he looked strangely calm.

  • @h0rriphic
    @h0rriphic Год назад +99

    A Viking warlord dying from an infected bite from a decapitated head is the _most metal thing I’ve ever heard._

    • @geekdivaherself
      @geekdivaherself Год назад +7

      _...because he had strapped the head to his saddle as a war trophy to frighten his enemies!_

    • @phillawrence5148
      @phillawrence5148 Год назад +3

      That was a Briton after decapitating a Roman I think, but yeah, metal AF

    • @h0rriphic
      @h0rriphic Год назад +3

      @@phillawrence5148 Ah ok, interesting. I know so little about ancient Britain, Scandinavia, etc. I’d like to learn more. Do you happen to know who the head belonged to? Just a random Italian dude?

  • @NakedOwl501
    @NakedOwl501 2 года назад +99

    I honestly am so glad "random pig walking in and taking a nibble" isn't a plausible cause of death for my kids.

    • @lukasp.8298
      @lukasp.8298 Год назад +12

      that part was frightning and i don't even have kids

    • @Knuckles2868
      @Knuckles2868 Год назад +7

      Pigs were more vicious then luckily they've been bred to chill out some

    • @spankyharland9845
      @spankyharland9845 Год назад +1

      that got my attention- trust no friendly pig....especially if their name is Babe.

    • @sleepyburr
      @sleepyburr Год назад +7

      @@Knuckles2868 Not as much as you might think. Most domestic pigs aren't wild hog levels of aggressive, but they'll take a bite out of damn near anything that winds up in the wrong place at the wrong time. More than one murderer has gotten rid of the body by tossing it into a pig pen and letting them do their thing iirc.

    • @Knuckles2868
      @Knuckles2868 Год назад +2

      @@sleepyburr oh I'm unfortunately familiar with Robert Pickton providing an example for sure

  • @jenniferdignan8507
    @jenniferdignan8507 2 года назад +44

    the artwork in the thumbnail with the guy smiling with a sword in his head is one of my favorites haha.

    • @cleocatra9324
      @cleocatra9324 2 года назад +3

      Ive seen a painting on werewolf where it looks like a giant head biting weasel lool

  • @h.a.9880
    @h.a.9880 Год назад +24

    In my opinion, the best "death by laughter" is the Burmese King Nanda Bayin, who died of laughter in 1599 after an Italian merchant told him Venice was a free state with no king."
    Also that greek philosopher that died laughing when he watched his drunk donkey trying to eat figs.

    • @vaclavvostoupalml.3662
      @vaclavvostoupalml.3662 Год назад +6

      I guess there's something incredibly funny about animals eating figs, when it killed two guys. 😄

    • @nathangarland9453
      @nathangarland9453 Год назад +1

      Mate I swear I've nearly died laughing at ppl crashing on a water-ski.thay where pulled along by a steel Guide in a big square above there head.anyway the way ppl where crashing and the look of suprise when thay crashed was so funny I couldn't stop laughing so much I couldn't breathe my stomach hurt real bad and my face hurt bad from smiling so much.mabey it was cos I was on L.S.D...

  • @isthattrue1083
    @isthattrue1083 2 года назад +32

    Dude didn't have indigestion. That's just a symptom of a heart attack.

  • @saka-hyenabro7773
    @saka-hyenabro7773 2 года назад +31

    we need a 1000 ways to die: Medieval Edition

    • @HVS-gk7oo
      @HVS-gk7oo Год назад +1

      I would LOVE that show.

  • @daintybeigli
    @daintybeigli Год назад +6

    When your fellow nuns are willing to help you make a mannequin, fake your illness and death, and get said mannequin buried in sacred ground to help you escape the cloister - all presumably at peril to their souls - that says a lot about the conditions there.

  • @isthattrue1083
    @isthattrue1083 Год назад +5

    He didn't die from laughing. He had a heart attack. The indigestion was the warning sign.

  • @leahklein6814
    @leahklein6814 2 года назад +40

    To the Knights Templar who died on this day, Friday 13, 1307!

  • @jordanhicks5131
    @jordanhicks5131 2 года назад +46

    Road rage is my favorite lol, things never change

    • @muhamadsayyidabidin3906
      @muhamadsayyidabidin3906 2 года назад +2

      Well now we don't randomly murdered a man just because he was traveling faster lmao. Poor man, I hope that carters got their punishment.

    • @jordanhicks5131
      @jordanhicks5131 2 года назад +4

      @@muhamadsayyidabidin3906 idk where you live, but where I live you can easily get murdered for that. Or driving too slow. Or giving someone the finger on the road.
      Road rage is real as hell

    • @redwins8840
      @redwins8840 Год назад

      @@jordanhicks5131 where do you live 😂

  • @ImTheRealJim
    @ImTheRealJim 2 года назад +57

    these videos are absolutely brilliant! keep growing and spreading this knowledge.

  • @pblaschke
    @pblaschke 11 месяцев назад +2

    These are such interesting stories. Very well researched and entertaining.

  • @alexjackson9929
    @alexjackson9929 2 года назад +5

    Great video. Love this series!

  • @theREDdevilz22
    @theREDdevilz22 2 года назад +7

    Just found your channel today bro 👌🏻 love it!

  • @simonosborne3047
    @simonosborne3047 2 года назад +41

    I don't know much about the subject, but I'm fairly sure Sigurd the Mighty didn't rule Orkney at the end of the 19th century. Queen Victoria would not have been amused.

    • @vladvladimirov4399
      @vladvladimirov4399 2 года назад +8

      I was also quite amazed.

    • @Tbone272
      @Tbone272 2 года назад +1

      I'm no history buff but ya that timeline didn't sound right

    • @mbterabytesjc2036
      @mbterabytesjc2036 2 года назад +10

      Probably just a misread of ninth century with nineteenth century. Amazing what a teen of years does to history. 🙄 😜

  • @mbterabytesjc2036
    @mbterabytesjc2036 2 года назад +21

    I really don't think anyone made it out of the middle ages alive. 🙄 😄

    • @jeepliving1
      @jeepliving1 Год назад +8

      You may be right. I know I've never met someone from that time.

  • @emzybenzey
    @emzybenzey 2 года назад +2

    Amazing 👏 as usual

  • @stevenwillard8436
    @stevenwillard8436 Год назад +1

    Good stuff!
    I’m happy to have found your channel.

  • @erictroxell715
    @erictroxell715 2 года назад +1

    This is GREAT stuff

  • @falkor420
    @falkor420 Год назад +1

    Great video! The “c” in sceptre, is silent though

  • @darkskinneddamsel8203
    @darkskinneddamsel8203 2 года назад +5

    Part 2, Please!

  • @apieceofbread9022
    @apieceofbread9022 2 года назад +4

    The thumbnail 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @marilynwells1872
    @marilynwells1872 Год назад +2

    Again, love your content...but scepter is pronounced SEP ter. The C is silent.

  • @-JA-
    @-JA- 2 года назад

    Thank you.

  • @sarah3796
    @sarah3796 2 года назад +1

    This channel is so crazy 😲😳✨

  • @yager943
    @yager943 2 года назад +3

    finaly a video after my taste :))))

  • @ThatCMonster
    @ThatCMonster 2 года назад +7

    *describes the most horrific shit imagineable* See you later 🥰 cheers 🎉 💕💕💕✨

  • @onlyme6374
    @onlyme6374 2 года назад +11

    How do you hang a deer by its tail,it's tiny???? I honestly don't think it's possible!!

    • @unkledoda420
      @unkledoda420 2 года назад +2

      Right? A deer's tail is little more than a furry flap to keep the dust out of their b-hole, I don't think it's gonna hold their entire body weight up.

    • @rotarumarius3831
      @rotarumarius3831 2 года назад +1

      That’s actually the joke!

  • @curiodyssey3867
    @curiodyssey3867 2 года назад +19

    Did I hear you say vikings in the 19th century? I'm confused as to how that is medieval. Either way, great content

    • @crebspark
      @crebspark 2 года назад +2

      lets just call it "the greater medieval period" coz i really want the persians in this channel too lmao

    • @toko_ribbon
      @toko_ribbon 2 года назад +15

      I heard that too but I think he meant 9th century but wrote it wrong on the prompt screen

    • @jordanhicks5131
      @jordanhicks5131 2 года назад +10

      "19th century vikings"
      Jesus christ, they've figured out time travel! No era will be safe from plunder now!

  • @kiwe7511
    @kiwe7511 2 года назад +1

    Oh my!!! Swallowed a fly!!!

  • @Mr.Monster1984
    @Mr.Monster1984 Год назад +2

    there were vikings in the 19th century? this doesnt sound right.
    edit. I looked that Sigurd Eysteinsson guy up on wikipedia and he was from the 9th century, not the 19th like you said at 8:25

    • @J_Trask
      @J_Trask Год назад

      Give the guy a break. He’s making great content with like 99% of no mistakes

  • @steveneltringham1478
    @steveneltringham1478 2 года назад +3

    Quinsy is what can happen when tonsillitis goes untreated. It can lead to septicaemia.

  • @alegnalowe3679
    @alegnalowe3679 2 года назад +1

    How fun!

  • @mrlume9475
    @mrlume9475 2 года назад +1

    Brutal.....

  • @curiodyssey3867
    @curiodyssey3867 2 года назад +3

    Lmao this content is supreme

  • @GJP1169
    @GJP1169 2 года назад +3

    Somethings never change . How many people die from the same things in our modern society

    • @American-Plague
      @American-Plague 2 года назад +1

      I've never heard of anyone dying IMMEDIATELY (or at all) from being bitten on the arm by a pig. How the hell did that happen anyway?! Even if it ripped his arm OFF, I can't imagine anyone dying IMMEDIATELY!

  • @deborahberger5816
    @deborahberger5816 4 дня назад

    I believe the fly story. A few summers ago I went for a picnic with my brother, who was making my laugh li!e a loon with his joshing. That's when a gnat, of all things, flew into my mouth. I instinctively drew a sharp breath and sucked the insect down my throat. I tell you, that choking sensation was horrifying! My brother rushed over to perform the Heimlich Manuever, but by then I had coughed the gnat out. Today we joke about the incident, because it reminds us of a silly song we sang as children: "There was an Old Lady who Swallowed I Fly."

  • @robertbruce7686
    @robertbruce7686 2 года назад

    A good healthy bedtime story collection for your little ones. ...

  • @kissykrissy33
    @kissykrissy33 Год назад +5

    Re: The Fly... is it possible his constituents poisoned him and subsequently lied about his cause of death? Sounds kinda like a sussy lie to me

    • @AxionSmurf
      @AxionSmurf Год назад

      Yeah I thought that sounded really unlikely too, but I don't think any U.S. government agency provides death by fly in the throat mortality statistics so there might be an amazing number of deaths in that manner. Possibly 100's of billions, even.

    • @katarinalove8649
      @katarinalove8649 Год назад

      Is it possible nasa has secret bases on the moon. But lie to the price and it's classified

  • @ObserverZero
    @ObserverZero 2 года назад +1

    I fucking love this channel

  • @marilynwells1872
    @marilynwells1872 Год назад +1

    Just watched this again and have to mention that the word "sow" rhymes with "how" and not "hoe". Also, I think the island you pronounced as Corsia might be CorsiCa. Again, I really do enjoy your content, but maybe have someone review the narration before uploading it? Just a thought.

  • @beatleplayer1011
    @beatleplayer1011 Год назад

    I have tonsillitis right now
    So you’re telling me if it were the Middle Ages I would have died this week from choking on a fly? Fair

  • @coconutsmarties
    @coconutsmarties Год назад

    It just makes me so happy that someone once lived named Walter Vigorous.

  • @slitaku
    @slitaku 6 месяцев назад

    *A medieval painting showing a person getting impaled by the head*
    The person: 🙂😐

  • @honorladone8682
    @honorladone8682 2 года назад +3

    Not a good time to be alive. Philadelphia USA

    • @cleocatra9324
      @cleocatra9324 2 года назад

      Philly hasnt been good for decades

  • @DemoniaWhisper
    @DemoniaWhisper Год назад

    Dózsa György's death was pretty metal to be honest. Also his name is spelled like: Dózs ( like the meme word Dodge) plus an "a" so Dodge-a while the Gy sound in György is similar to the D in dew, ö can be pronounced like the E in herd, r is pronounced the same then again a gy. But alas the pronounciation provided by google translate is also somewhat on point :D

  • @evanjones9602
    @evanjones9602 3 месяца назад

    9:34 "A crown for a king." - Khal Drogo, Game of Thrones, executing Viserys Targaryen for attempted murder by molten gold.

  • @azigar
    @azigar Год назад

    re 2:16, medical input...quinsy is still quinsy. We see it somewhat differently to regular tonsillitis. It's still called quinsy, but also peritonsillar abscess.

  • @American-Plague
    @American-Plague 2 года назад +2

    8:25 Wait, there were Vikings at the end of the 19th century?!

    • @mofarag2529
      @mofarag2529 2 года назад

      That's what I thought! I think he meant 9th.

    • @CountessKitten
      @CountessKitten Год назад

      I know I rewound it about 6 times to ensure I was hearing it correctly, lol. A mistaken number, I presume. Because otherwise, the content is stellar!

  • @fishkakat7700
    @fishkakat7700 Год назад +2

    🎶There was a pope who swallowed a fly. I don’t know why he swallowed the fly. Perhaps he’ll die. 🎶

  • @Michael-Douglas
    @Michael-Douglas Год назад +2

    In English the word sceptre is pronounced with a silent C it is said like septer. Imagine there isn't a C.

  • @exkelsior1486
    @exkelsior1486 5 месяцев назад

    Pig bites hurt way more than you would expect

  • @christaylor4477
    @christaylor4477 2 года назад +1

    Man it was like a bad comedy movie living back then.

  • @tricivenola8164
    @tricivenola8164 Год назад

    Hooray for Joan of Leeds!

  • @GrayAvian
    @GrayAvian Год назад

    The thumbnail is relatable somehow

  • @malicant123
    @malicant123 2 года назад

    So they went to work on Dozier with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch?

  • @thenathanimal2909
    @thenathanimal2909 Год назад

    1) Seems this is still tradition in London

  • @benjaminzedrine
    @benjaminzedrine Год назад

    In the deadly joke the jester is referring to having sex down in the bushes next door and that he's bothered by having been called by his own wretched king to tell jokes whilst his balls are now even more swollen. The word deer here has been transliterated from "game", and hanging from tail transliterated from "arse in the air". P.S. the first four deaths so far are heart attacks.

  • @bob23301
    @bob23301 2 года назад

    Too soon!

  • @patriciafaison9164
    @patriciafaison9164 Год назад

    So was the guy who swallowed the fly, the inspiration for the song, There was an old lady who swallowed a fly, perhaps she'll die. 😅

  • @jessemcdonald5124
    @jessemcdonald5124 Год назад

    I go through him everymonth. He's my main source of good amounts but that's because he doesn' eat them he only sells. Trust me he is my golden goose I'd be fucked completely without him 😰

  • @FredPilcher
    @FredPilcher Месяц назад

    "A so bit her". Jezuz.

  • @jeremyhorne5252
    @jeremyhorne5252 Год назад

    These buggers were hardly a stone's throw from the Paleolithic caves from which they originally emerged.

  • @gordonchild110
    @gordonchild110 2 года назад

    What does rocked up with mean?

  • @sidjoosin6549
    @sidjoosin6549 2 года назад

    Pope Adrian IV, advocate of 3rd crusade , died while drinking water fly flied into mouth, Barbarossa died on the way to Crusade, felt from horse into a little 1 foot deep stream of water and accomplished drowning there

  • @MelodyNelson1087
    @MelodyNelson1087 Год назад

    The viking ruled at the end of the 19th century???????😯😳

  • @parrotjunglecolada8270
    @parrotjunglecolada8270 Год назад

    Is it possible flies back then were huge? Like gumball huge?

  • @therav2278
    @therav2278 Год назад

    Did you say Viking warlord in 19th century?

  • @ganjaman59650
    @ganjaman59650 Год назад +1

    Killed for "riding his horse too fast", this seem too close to a modern problem, put stuff in perspective.

  • @alexandervaltsev6937
    @alexandervaltsev6937 2 года назад

    Most of these death are relatable today

  • @PlaymateTessiNumberOneFan
    @PlaymateTessiNumberOneFan 2 года назад +1

    Just 8? Lol

  • @laurbster2680
    @laurbster2680 Год назад

    guy instantly died from a pig bite on the elbow? lol

  • @ernestweaver9720
    @ernestweaver9720 2 года назад +1

    Not much has changed.

  • @OBGynKenobi
    @OBGynKenobi 2 года назад

    Or if you crossed The Hound.

  • @BrettHoTep
    @BrettHoTep Год назад

    What have I taken away from these vids?
    The medievals were basically all criminals.

  • @slimytoad1447
    @slimytoad1447 2 года назад

    Thank god for antibiotics!

  • @cartoonsomething1627
    @cartoonsomething1627 Год назад

    Another beautiful day of not living in the medieval ages.

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

    None for nuns. Perhaps the odd smidgen now and then.

  • @lydiarose5212
    @lydiarose5212 Год назад

    And bizarre causes of death/Darwin awards continue to amuse me even in these "enlightened" modern times. At least I'm not the only wierdo here. :)

  • @Lobster.shack13
    @Lobster.shack13 2 года назад

    Kinda sad the US didn’t have a medieval era

    • @cchrizzy219
      @cchrizzy219 Год назад

      Bro wth is this statement? 😂

  • @LuvBorderCollies
    @LuvBorderCollies 2 года назад

    19th century ??? Mmmmmm.....did Queen Victoria know this??

  • @h.huffen-puff4105
    @h.huffen-puff4105 Год назад

    🤦‍♀️

  • @KilledByThatTrain
    @KilledByThatTrain Год назад +1

    Soldier #1 - Hey, what’s the last thing to go through the prisoner’s mind when we execute him?
    Soldier #2 - My blade!
    Prisoner- Silently chuckles

  • @crebspark
    @crebspark 2 года назад +4

    hey bruv, can you do a series on medieval islamic world? that would be dope..

    • @Shahzadkhan-dm3cv
      @Shahzadkhan-dm3cv 2 года назад

      That certainly would be very
      Interesting especially on the
      Ottoman empire and the war's
      Of Salahudin vs Richard the
      Lion heart...
      And on the legendary battlefield
      Veteran who fought over 100
      Battles and never ever lost even
      1 of them he literally Shook and
      Bought the Roman and Persian
      Empires right down the their knees
      Look him up if you may and just
      Read or watch a few of he's videos
      He's name was "KHALID IBN AL WALID"....

  • @paulgriffin9355
    @paulgriffin9355 2 года назад +1

    C is silent in Sceptre

  • @VikingVern7
    @VikingVern7 2 года назад +1

    8:25 19th century?

  • @KevinKillaKam
    @KevinKillaKam 2 года назад +4

    I think that English Pope chocked on an alter boy and not a fly.

    • @onlyme6374
      @onlyme6374 2 года назад

      Yes!!! like it!!!!!😂😂😂😂

    • @evansellars8728
      @evansellars8728 2 года назад +1

      Makes sense considering he's English.

    • @kimberleysmith818
      @kimberleysmith818 2 года назад

      @@evansellars8728 didn’t realise we had a reputation for kiddy fiddling. The church yes but didn’t realise it was specific to the English churches

    • @evansellars8728
      @evansellars8728 2 года назад

      @@kimberleysmith818 no the church and the English separately are kiddie didlers

    • @michaelmontagu3979
      @michaelmontagu3979 Год назад

      I think you mean choked. And altar.

  • @wordscapes5690
    @wordscapes5690 2 года назад +5

    THE WORD "SCEPTRE" HAS A SILENT "C". ;)

  • @lavictoireestanous
    @lavictoireestanous Год назад

    The speaker does not pronounce english very well. Is he lower class? Or american?

  • @Fred-rj3er
    @Fred-rj3er 2 месяца назад

    You really do need to check your pronunciations. Not just on this vid. Eg a sow is pronounced S OW unless you are sowing seeds. Sceptre - the C is silent!
    I like ya vids but these mistakes tend to spoil them and encourage people in the new world to keep pissmronuncating English 😉

    • @_argh.1
      @_argh.1 Месяц назад

      He’s English….

  • @lavictoireestanous
    @lavictoireestanous Год назад

    The english are terrible bestia

  • @steveprentice4513
    @steveprentice4513 2 года назад +1

    The pope is not the head of the church, Jesus is.

    • @amberross4784
      @amberross4784 2 года назад +2

      Unfortunately you are incorrect. God is the head of the church. Therefore be ye smote by his holy righteousness for spreading blasphemy.

  • @parrotjunglecolada8270
    @parrotjunglecolada8270 Год назад

    Is it possible flies back then were huge? Like gumball huge?