Worst ways to die in history (part 6)
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"they took care"... 68 broken bones later
Gilderoy Lockhart enters the room 🪄
@@TheMidoriDreamsbreaks even more bones
THANKS MAN 😮😂😮😂😅😂😂🎉🎉🎉
took care to keep them alive, yes. There are worse things than death.
@@rockz9783 what bones?
"i was born in the wrong generation"
Past generation:
Dont commit murder or be a traitor and youre safe
@@medievalfarmerstudio4762 it literally says in this video that it was also a punishment for robbery "so you stole food for your starving family welp enjoy a excruciating death"
was probably a very common occurrence and I get that stealing food back then could cause another to starve but the robber definitely didn't deserve all that for the crime of not wanting to starve
I rather be born 2 generations from now
@@medievalfarmerstudio4762your dumbass never heard of a false conviction
That doesn’t mean they want to be born in the medieval ages lmao
"The second part is where things get a bit twisted" yeah bro was chilling during the first part
💀
twisted like a pretzel
Literally twisted
This mediaeval punishment is still used in Palestine if you’re gay lol.
He meant they would be twisted around the wheel, literally. T'was a good joke indeed.
Fun fact: In German, we even have a phrase that refers to this torture method: "Ich bin gerädert." (literally "I am wheeled") You typically say this after a long day of physical exhaustion, feeling every muscle and bone in your body.
In the Netherlands we have the same phrase for the same : "Ik ben geradbraakt".
Sag Bloss!
Hust: "I'm feeling tired." = "ich fühle mich gerädert."
One to one translations; same meaning.
_habe auch länger gebraucht als mir lieb war xD_
Hehe reminds me of the whole "ring around the rosie" how many grueling events in history became children's nursery rhymes and common phrases we don't think twice about. I guess it's probably for the best we don't think too much about it though if we're all cool in modern day.
We use the word "rådbråka" in Swedish. It's often used wrong. It comes from German Radebrechen I think.
There was a german serial killer who survived for 9 DAYS on the wheel in the 1500s. Brutal.
Give me names pls very interesting
fr i want to know too
@@Pike737Christman Genipperteinga
I am not sure but last or first hit was on neck and than all limbs ( depends if you were broken from lower or from upper ) than if you survive you would be put to that wheel …
They kept him alive on purpose as long as they could . They didn't just leave him, they got him super drunk every single day to help prolong him. Probably for maximum effect of torture
Violent Criminal: Falls off torture wheel.
Entire village: HEAL THIS INNOCENT MAN
I bet that wheely hurt
😂
Never a truer word anyone spoke
Best comment 😂
Underrated comment😂😂
this hit me like a sack of wet mice
The way humans have discovered various ways of torturing each other is absolutely astounding.
Proof that mankind is inherently evil.
The moment I heard "first part" my smile disappeared
Why tf were you smiling at that point
Why were you smiling to begin with 💀
Yeah tf were u smiling for
@@AndeLikeTheMint because hes sentenced to the wheel
You weird
The more I learn about history, I feel like empathy is a very recent phenomenon.
Having empathy with others simply for being human, has been a radical position, for most of history. In many parts of the World, it's still not the first inclination of people, and group identity determines of how someone is treated. Even where it is the first inclination, it matters only when we're confronted with the suffering, which is rare.
It's not new, though. You find a basis for it in most religions, but most also contain ample basis for cruelty. In addition, religion has had a tendency to lose out to worldly expediency, and even end up justifying that expediency.
The roots of the modern, Western ideal of compassion, is in Christian humanism, which asserts that everyone is your neighbor (even a Samaritan); compassion isn't to be reserved for kin, friends, and allies, but to be given to everyone, simply for being human. During Enlightenment, this developed into philosophical and secular humanism. Today, most people have no idea how radical the humanist principle was considered, both by the majority and by the rulers.
Humanism has percolated for about 2,000 years, and we're getting to a point where most people will agree, in principle, as long as nothing happens to upset them, in which case all bets are off. Give it another 2,000 years, and it may actually begin to make us behave better...
I don't know enough to comfortably elaborate on similar developments in other cultures, religions, philosophies, and traditions, but all have tangled with the issue, and compassion is generally seen as essential to a moral life.
And then you listen to other people and find out: Nah, it's still like i always was. :(
We are spoiled. Back then life was so hard that this was just a distraction from the misery.
Trump
You and me both Utopian, you man me both.
Someone: Makes the wheel
Europe: Let's use this to torture people!!
I'm disappointed the wheels function wasn't put to use at all. I was thinking water wheel, carriage. You know a wheel that rolled.
That's just Europe saying phuc this invention.
It’s always them💀😂
@@DEADGrey-fm8js ikr - Europeans are always evil and no one else ever is 💀 😂
@@DEADGrey-fm8jsyeah its allways us
Why is it always us doing the tortureing
Can you imagine all the innocent people who had to suffer this from false accusations and wrong evidence
Human history is thoroughly steeped in evil and misery. It was only natural that people would comfort themselves with the belief that some eternal heavenly wonder awaits them but not the those who wronged them, if only they can get through another day...and another day...and ... and . . .
@@genericname3113 how is that related to the comment? Also, doesn't sound true.
@niccolopaganini1782 it's not 😂
@@genericname3113I can smell the dorito fingers on this comment.
it's not like we changed that... you can imagine this by looking at the American "justice"
“The second part is where things get a bit twisted.”
Bro. We already hit that target.
You missed the pun.
@@TheFakeyCakeMaker Oops.
Twisty braidy lol
It’s wild how they still chose to be “careful” not to let the victim die while breaking his/her bones 😭😭😭
The french used a long iron staff to break the bones. The art behind this was, to break the bones with the hit, but not cause any heavy bleeding.
“Video games make people violent!”
Humanity before they even existed:
Edit: yall gotta fuckin chill i just discovered this channel and that’s the first thing that came to mind so EXCUSE ME for not realising that this is apparently a culture with these vids??
LocalOnionRingEnjoyer sold me an unregistered firearm behind taco bell
@@what_4836s can confirm this is true
He sold me ten nukes in a Walmart bathroom
He sold me a hamburger laced with crack
@@gemstonepheonix9522 this is true
anyone sick enough to operate that thing is a monster
It was a punishment for the worst of the worst.
And yes. The people doing this to the worst of the worst were social outcasts.
You realize the medical of that time was absolutely atrocious and at best you’ll be able to sit up but not without agonizing pain.
It's pretty rare knowledge. You're probably the only one here that knows that.
Big wheel is being a smart ass about it but there's a TON of people up top that seem to have missed that memo and are debating recidivism of criminals pardoned by God.
Because they hare God and must find a way to blame him but I digress. Have a good day and godspeed.
not as bad as we think, a lot of that comes from victorian misinformation. Medieval people documented shit like needle chest decompressions which we do today, surgery to remove cataracts, etc. the low level normal physicians for peasants and shit did what was simple and worked for centuries, the high level 'masters' were the scary ones, because they were actively experimenting to see what new shit did or didnt work. which is to say, making shit up as they went.
The lucky ones died
@@BigWheel. Not true. Ancient medical texts handed down from the ancient Egyptians and Persians through the Greeks and Romans and obtained from Muslim traders detailed complex grafting and regeneration techniques which have been lost over the passage of time.
"I was born in the wrong generation" mfs been real quiet lately
The fact that people survived this was nuts
-Video games make people violent.
-Meanwhile people before video games:
This just goes to show how every single invention will eventually be repurposed to hurt someone
Like those oven cinnamon buns you can throw at people.
Like the Dodge Charger
Except for guunnnnnns! Yay 'Merica!!!
Oh wait....😮
I like how there’s the optimism of divine intervention 😊
Humans are so cruel
I can think of plenty of people that would dandy braided on a wheel
*whites
True I think removal of freedoom is punishment enough
We as a species have always been cruel to each other since the beginning of time and always will be😅
We humans can be extremely violent and destructive creatures😅 that’s why combat sports have always been a thing 🥊👊🏾🤕
In today’s society you got the UFC, in this specific era you knights changing at each other on horseback with big ass wooden poles that almost guaranteed internal bleeding if you were hit by one😅 and in the ancient era, you had gladiators swinging swords and axes at each other’s faces ⚔️🪓
Long story short, we as a species have seriously dialed down our thirst for blood 🩸 compared to our ancestors😅
Puts a whole new meaning to 'being tired'
That's literally where that expression comes from...
The first one to receive this punishment was probably the wheel's inventor.
Made me think of Robespierre
@@CarbonatedCondensation I think he was referring to the inventor of the bronze bull.
@@lepperkin or ludwig the 16th, since he optimized the blade of the guilliotine
@@lepperkinagree with you.
@@Schoko-ii6lythis guy too.
Im just saying, there was no mass shooters back when they used these things.
Who do you think was dropping the wheel?
There wasn't any guns either
No shit Sherlock, there were no guns at this time
But there were still killers, rapiists, etc, so what's ur point ?
r/whoosh@@OcarinaOfTime
@@josebravo5125 They may have been pretty crude but guns have been around for like 700 years
To be fair if you survived all of that it was definitely divine intervention
Fun fact ! There's a french children song called "Jean-Petit qui danse" inspired by this form of torture, where you sing "Jean-Petit is dancing, Jean the dancer Jean-Petit" then you add a part of the body the children are supposed to clap on, such as "With his hands, hands hands", as a reference to the parts of his body that were broken during the process (iirc, Jean-Petit one one of the leader of the Révolte des Croquants movement, happening around the midle of the XVII century, that was caughted and died because of the breaking wheel)
I can’t help admiring the creativity to the point of weaving the person into the spokes. Not tying them on, but actually weaving them in. Love it!
You need help.
@@DaneOrschlovskyprobably just some edgy 12yo
Broooo what do you mean LOVE IT💀
I mean I agree shame we don't have such creativity today
Woah bro you’re so edgy
Fun fact: in Germany people sometimes say “Ich fühle mich wie gerädert” when they are exhausted wich comes from this torture method. It literally translates to “I feel like I have been wheeled”
My toxic trait is thinking I could survive all this and somehow still be able to even walk💀
Would you want to?
@@evilsharkey8954 could you possibly elaborate on that? Just in case it’s what I think it is, then no, of course not. Who would even want to?
@@Leethaltimee Getting “medical treatment” for that many broken bones in the days before antibiotics and painkillers.
The luckiest people on the wheel would die of fat embolisms from the trauma of bones breaking.
@@evilsharkey8954 woahh, you didn’t need to write a middle school informative essay on this, all I said was that this is easily a toxic trait of mine, a thing that *everyone* has. You didn’t need to come in here say the facts when obviously this shit is some of the most painful stuff probably for anyone, and that no, I don’t really think much people could ever survive this.
@@Leethaltimee Dude, I wrote two sentences.
Him putting the bandage on his legs after having broken dones killed me😂😂
I like these "interventions" and "pardoning" rules. I remember one method used to find witches, which consisted in tying woman to a boulder and throwing her in water. If she could swim out, this was considered as a symbol of her witch powers (which led to her death), but if she drowned, she was pardoned to be mistaken for a witch. Quite effective, I say...
Very few that drowned didn't deserve it. The practice was reserved for people who ritualisticaly sacrificed children and played with animal guts and drew arcane and profane symbols all over everything.
Only the truly evil or deranged drowned. Theres been an attempt by various authorities to twist this truth into the idea that random women and girls were drowned for no reason. Absolute nonsense.
@@Allister_1See, that would make sense only if on every single occasion the women put on trial for witchcraft were actually practicing witchcraft. And while the Church believed such people did exist, they honestly didn't really think it necessary to set up entire witch trials for one or 2 people doing that kind of stuff.
It were the common people on the other hand who were terrified of witchcraft, in part due to pagan influences that shaped part of the folklore. And those were the people who brought women to the church while accusing her of witchcraft. As you might be aware, if a crowd of people says something, there is kinda little one can do to make them change their minds, so even in cases where it would be dubious at best to think of the accused as a witch, she would still be subjected to the drowning punishment described above, regardless of whether she could be called one.
So that's why it's always good to assume that at the very least the majority of convicted 'witches' were in fact only mildly eccentric citizens.
@@Allister_1 Yeah, I'm going to call BS. Cite your sources.
@@Allister_1
You sound like a religious nutjob....
And I'm probably right in my assessment of you.
@@christiaanvandenakker901his source is his misogyny
I love that throughout history our response to people doing bad things has been to do worse things to them whilst believing we have the moral high-ground.
Absolutely Berserk!
Was looking for this comment.
I didn‘t think that is was a real punishment when I first read the Manga
based reference
Finally found the comment
RIP To All Those Who Died As A Result Of This 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️
I didn't expect to be terrified for 1 minute💀
Not me casually liking this video to make sure more content like this pops up on my feed
The most gruesome FNAF story is actually called "The breaking wheel"!
Yes! I was looking in the comments for someone who new the story! That story was BRUTAL! Very well done tho!
I have found my people
Life was tough in this part of western history between the lack of technology and religious repression.
These videos are interesting but they always make me feel so sick
Fun-fact: there is a German expression still used today of feeling "gerädert".
Figuratively, it says you feel knackered, rough or groggy.
Literally it means feeling "wheeled".
This expression goes back to this punishment.
The last person to be punished and executed this way in Germany was robber and murderer Johannes Adam Hasenpflug. He was executed on 14th November 1841 in Frankfurt (Main).
This form of punishment was outlawed afterwards.
More than a 180 years later, the German language still uses the reference to this brutal and inhumane punishment to describe a state of feeling particularly unwell.
Oh so that’s why there is a wheel as a weapon in Bloodborne
i feel like not rolling the wheel down a hill at any point during the process is a big missed opportunity
If you don’t think that was bad enough you’re living in the wrong century, bro!
*The breaking wheel in history:* 😬
*The breaking wheel in the fnaf books:* 💀
Fr, that story was brutal as hell! Very well done tho, one of my favorites
The castle in the background has the perfect expression for what's happening 😂😂
😮😶😶😶😮
We need to bring this back
Vote maga
you volunteering to go first?
@@claremontcowboy7409 hes not a murderer so why would he this reply makes no sens
@@revolt_4588 way to out yourself as being incapable of understanding sarcasm and nuance
Well i think that would wheelie break your spirit
Are you fo wheel? 🤣🤣
This is wheelie inappropriate humour!
This reminds me of berserk
So that's why Alfred carries a wheel as a weapon in Bloodborne lol
This hurts just hearing about it
"Sich wie gerädert fühlen" (literally "to feel as if one got wheeled") is still a common saying in German, dating back to this practice.
Those people are real psychopaths
They're real jerks
*wheel psychopaths
No, they just knew how to deal with giant assholes.
@@craigunshallach4951then what's the difference between guilty and the punisher ?
@@craigunshallach4951 Like you?
I find it funny that I learned this type of torture from Fazbear Frights 💀
I could think of a few crimes where this should be allowed as a form of punishment.
Nah, that would make you just as bad as the criminal or worse
I think that’s also where the word „tired“ comes from.
Great amusement for witnesses.
I have never heard breaking on the wheel being done this way. I always heard it being done where your limbs are tied to the spokes, they spin you around, and they just hit you to break your limbs.
"Break a leg" they said
Thanks. I really needed to know this.
just so you know, this is medical treatment back in the *15th century* , not modern medicine, so just imagine
To be fair at least they could set your dislocated and broken bones back into place. Which would cover most of the bases
@@stickmaster400 *laughs in Plague
@@explosivegreenNot sure what lack of knowledge about germs has to do with setting someone’s bones back into place.
@@Dave-bd2eoSetting shattered bones and compound fractures, especially the small bones of the hands and feet, is a different animal than straightening the limb and splinting it.
The more I learn about history, the more I learn about the past, the more thankful I am for being in this generation and not the other.
I confirm the pain. I had this done to me a couple of times... and it HURTS.
"No hard feelings, we are frieeends, arent we ?"(I read it with Australian accent for some reason)
"and that is how Logarius Wheel was invented"
David Coulthards career really took a nosedive
imagine you were starving to death, so your only choice was to rob people and then they do this to you 💀
Than Get a job …. They cut hands of thieves … this was for marauders and outlaws … but it was diferent if you was put to death from uper to lower than first blow was on neck and than limbs and after that you was put into that wheel. Or you was from lower to upper and than blow on neck was last ( more brutal cuz blow on neck was mostly mortal )
@@Jan.jan2024 Did- did you watch the video? He also mentioned robbers.
@@Jan.jan2024my brother do you have even basic knowledge how life was in medieval times?
@@Jan.jan2024 Does that count if you have cancer?
@@BigFroggo robbers are different than thieves, a thief would be somebody who simply shoplifted or pickpocketted, a robber would be someone who violently stole what they wanted to steal, there is a massive difference.
The only type of non-violent thief that could likely get this punishment would be someone who stole a horse or livestock thief, as that was viewed as equivalent to attempted murder of a farmer since it would render the person unable to provide for their family or for example a woman who lied about pregnancy to avoid punishment, as a pregnant woman would generally have punishment waived significantly reduced, or commuted, but lying about it to delay or avoid punishment would usually bring extremely severe repurcussions such as being broken.
'I felt like i got wheeled.' in German: 'Ich fühl mich wie gerädert.' you say that when you didn't sleep last night and you are very tired
That they had a rule for if you survived means some people did?
Not sure looked into it for 30 seconds found some dude survived awake for 9 days got sad and gave up
@@bradlybellant3975must’ve been hungry n shit
@@bradlybellant3975n in pain
The man that is being tortured sounds very innocent, i can feel his pain😢
This is confusing. Ive seen that the victim was tied to a wheel and their bones broken by a club or mallet; or the bones were broken by the wheel. Which is it?
I hope you know that there are multiple ways of doing something? They're similar but not the same 🤦🏻♀️ idk what's so confusing about that.
Different places had different techniques.
Both, and then some more
What I don't understand is why it has to be a wheel. There's nothing that you couldn't do here with a heavy fence or gate
@@bigcheeses I suspect the practice evolved from seeing how destroyed people got when they were run over by wagons, so they tried to emulate that as a form of torture. Being a wheel gives them spokes to thread the broken limbs through.
People think the world is so violent and horrible right now - no it’s not. Nothing compared to human history. The difference is we have instant access to all the bad happening around the world 24/7. We are living in the most peaceful time to be alive.
Could be worse
-Torture inventor
You know the punishment is crazy when the criminal is labelled as victim 😂
Well, it's no Brazen bull but I suppose it will do.
The brazen bull was nothing compared to some of the Medieval and Early Modern European tortures. Even some of the non-lethal ones were pretty effed up, like having red hot brad awls shoved under your fingernails.
i sighed in relief after he said medical treatment
I though they would put there legs into the wheel and spin it.
Imagine dying to a circle with handle bars
Anyone remember the name of the torture wheel that Quasimodo was almost killed on in the beginning of hunchback of Notre Dame? I thought that’s what was going to be talked about in the video but I was wrong 😂
That one is more of a pillory.
Stuff like this is why the US Bill of Rights outlawed cruel and unusual punishment.
For people who can't see the error in their ways and don't want to listen to the authorities, I think this is called for.
if this isn't bait (I seriously hope you are baiting for attention) then I advise you to seek some level of therapy. mutilation of life is disgusting and does nothing to further society.
@@ethans-d6105what do you mean mutilation doesn't further society, it helps with the food supply.
@@Sir.Fithers "a modest proposal" lol
Sure, seems okay in practice until you realize the system used to convict and sentence people to this was based on some guy being like “yeah maybe he did it, string him up.”
@@Sir.Fithers😂
Another version of this has the victim simply tied to the wheel. The wheel was then released at the top of a steep and rough hill.
Let’s bring it back 😂(jk)
unless..
@@kritzkrieg14 I mean we could definitely stop a lot of crime 🤭
@@AlwaysXAlex State sponsored crime, to stop crime. The UN could use acts of terror to stop the Russian's attacking the Ukraine. Vladimir Putin gets the wheel!
Now i understand why,
the English "I'm feeling tired." and
the German "Ich fühle mich gerädert."
Are literal translations with the same meaning.
Yooooo 😂
Having broken bones moved around is one of the most horrific feelings ever but having that done all over your body and the limbs twisted in agonizing cramped positions... I think most would have gone into shock and died quite fast.
This is why you rule. No one else thinks like this.
This is the kind of video that I would see on 3 a.m and not be able to sleep for some time
It's always that one short before bed
They might have been idiots, but they definitely picked out unique ways to kill a person.
This actually feels wholesome a little, when you survive for weeks days they let you go and gave you medical treatment
I can't totally comprehend how these things were normal back then
They need to bring back punishments like this for today’s criminals
When you’re nostalgic for the past, think about this. Be wary of politicians who try to sell you on the good old days.
When Marcellus Wallace said "I'm going get medieval on your ass." he wasn't kidding.
Wow and people say video games are the reason kids are violent…
if your death sentence includes keeping you alive, shit is going to be bad
That last part sounds like that would be the worst way to live.
“Why does the people care for you so much?”
“Because I committed crimes”
This would stop our crime problems.