Not so much the joke itself. But your reaction on the "thinking about trojans" made it so much funnier. I actually made a couple of my old teachers have similar reactions to my jokes when i was in school."
Johnny Appleseed, born John Chapman in 1774 was a reverend and pioneer conservationist who introduced Apple trees into large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and Ontario by establishing nurseries from which people could purchase sapplings
@@gregcourtney751 I mean, it's not like they were good for anything else. Apples are VERY genetically divergent, and most edible apples are propagated through grafting. For religious reasons he didn't do that.
@@Jp41999 I mean, I don’t remember who said this but the way to tell what a good civilization is two things: people, and alcohol. You need clean water to make alcohol.
Fun fact: In the Salem witch trials no witch was every actually burned. Most of them were hung and some were crushed with huge stones. Burning was a European thing.
As far as I know, Paul Bunyan was a real person who was really tall for the time. He wasn't like Godzilla tall, only like a foot taller than the average person. I'm not sure where the ox came from though.
Paul Bonyan was a french canadian woodcutter who emigrated to the US. His last name was french so the people of his town started calling him Paul Bonyan because he often used the french expression "Bon-Yenn!" witch his a french canadian expression for surprise. More than 1 million of french canadian moved the the US during the 19th century because of the poor quality of life here due to the british dominance. He was very tall and very very strong and stories about him became legend.
There is no person that ever existed, they are a collection of old folk tales that later merged into one thing through many retellings and an author who collected folk tales to create the story we know today. Many people actually think they may have not been actual folktales and K. Bernice Stewart & Homer A. Watt just made it all up and connected it to folktales from lumberjacks lol. The version most Americans know was entirely made up by William B. Laughead who was an advertising copywriter in 1916, he created the name Babe the blue ox and the stories of him creating famous landmarks. It's an entirely fictional character.
Ancestral fault is not a thing. You didn't do anything. Why do you have to apoligize on behalf of those Idiot Ancestors? I'm an Austrian and one of my Great-Grandfathers was a Hardliner Nazi, who fought even after the war was over. This Guy was an absolute Idiot, but only he has any fault over it and only he can apoligize for what he did. Well he himself did technically nothing. He did not any Massmurders or anything like that. He was just a Soldier. But you get what I mean right?
@@admiralmonocle3874 Its true it doesnt make much sense to say sorry when the person themselves did not do anything. But its still good to sometimes take note of our recent ancestry. If for example, there are unjust laws giving a person extra priviliges or removing rights from others unlike them based on old criterias. It puts that person in a position to properly fight back that injustice, as it can often be harder or impossible for the group oppressed by those same laws to do so. If such a situation arrives and the person doesn't do anything about it are they not a bit responsible for that specific ongoing injustice? Saying sorry would still not change anything however.
21:04 - In some parts of Swedish folklore, the witches were said to have been riding on a flying cow. The cow being upside down and flying backwards. This came from witnesses who claimed to have seen it with their own eyes. This was part of the Swedish hysteria surrounding witches and the burning there of.
@@liamwilkinson9732 I was told it had to do with Germanic women making beer “ black cars for mice and brooms for both sweeping and brewing perposes with the handle “ but I’ve also heard that one and like 30 more lol
You should watch through Futurama. One of the running gags is how Fry, a guy from the past who was accidentally frozen and wakes up in the far future, is constantly running across things the future folks get wrong about history. Plus, it's just a hilarious and entertaining show.
Speaking of troy and Achilles, my theory is that achilles is that the story is that his armor was super strong, that it made him seem invincible, but because of the exposed skin in his sandals, he was able to get killed
So you think he wasn’t dipped into the river of the underworld to become nigh invulnerable, with the exception of his mothers finger that covered part of his heel? Sounds like some Troy fake news propaganda to me. Would you just so happen to be interested in a giant wooden horse? I happen to have one soars that I need to get rid of.
21:00 the witches riding the broom came from people witnessing some ceremonies where "witches' would get on brooms (made of straw) and jump as high as they could to show the wheat (also straw ... sort of) how tall to grow. then as how most things go, the stories got more and more exaggerated in each retelling, till they were said to be flying (like superman)
Paul Bunyan is a legendary hero and enormous lumberjack in American and Canadian folklore. The figure originated in the oral tradition of North American loggers and was subsequently popularized in a 1916 advertising leaflet for the Red River Lumber Company by freelance writer William B. Laughead (1882-1958). Historians think Bunyan was modeled in part on a real lumberjack: Fabian Fournier, a French-Canadian timberman who traveled south after the Civil War and worked as the foreman of a logging team in Michigan. Fournier's mythology fused with that of another French-Canadian lumberman, Bon Jean, through time. By the early 20th century, both men had become associated with an entire nation of people called Canada who lived in large forests and liked to listen to stories at night. Bunyan first appeared in print in 1900 in a collection of poems called The Lumberjack. The poet and journalist William Allen White wrote the introduction to this book. It tells the story of Bunyan trying to save his family business from going under. To do this, he goes to work for the largest company in their town, which happens to be owned by his relatives. However, Bunyan soon realizes that working for money is not what matters most in life. It is how you treat others that counts. With no other options left, he decides to go north into the big woods and make his living cutting trees. Since then, Bunyan has become a popular figure in America. He appears in comic books, television shows, and movies. There are even two national parks named after him. One is in Minnesota and the other in Maine.
There’s also the French-Canadian Joseph "Jos" Montferrand born Joseph Favre who was from 1802 to 1864 known as the Ottawa valley figure of Big Joe Mufferaw. Who was 6 foot 4 and is known to have done well in boxing and street-fights and was a voyageur and then lumber worker in the ottawa area with legends of him protecting Quebecois against irish canadians
He basically said it himself while discussing the Trojan War. A possibly real person does some impressive things and oral tradition exaggerates them to the point that a really tall lumberjack gets turned into a giant reshaping the land.
BTW, the story with the Trojan Horse is a bit more complicated. First, it had no "wheels". Second, they made a complicate ruse leaving a "disgruntled Greek" behind, who would tell the trojans that if they put the horse inside the city, the city will be protected by the gods. Third, the trojans didn´t buy it. Laokoon, a priest of Apollo (or Poseidon, depends who you read) said loudly "I am sure the belly of that horse is full of warriors" and threw a javelin to the horse, and it sounded hollow. The trojans started gathering wood under it to burn it down. But Laokoon had been passionately hugging some priestess in the temple, and Apollo (or Poseidon) was very pissed. So suddenly two very big snakes came out of the water and ate him and his sons alive. The trojans saw this as a warning of the gods, so they stopped the destruction of the horse and brought it inside. Edited> typos, grammar.
It was Poseidon. Because Odysseus failed to give him a proper sacrifice as thanks for killing Laokoon, Poseidon ensured that Odysseus would never sail back to Ithica
You're the type of history teacher that there should be more of in this world. Making history interesting is a challenge in of itself, and you pull it off flawlessly.
I was told in my witchcraft history class(we cover Britain, Germany/central Europe and Salem) that the stereotypical female witch riding a broom came from because woman cleaned the house back in those days that was the tool commonly associated seeming for male witches because most men did farm work male which is why male witches ride pitch forks.
well, witches didn`t exactly ride only on brooms. In stories they just had a kind of "flying paste" they applied to something and then that thing could fly.
I heard claim that the idea of witches riding brooms came from Pagan Europe. Supposedly it had something to do with the harvest. What is more of the modern romanticism was how the broom was heard. The sweeping business end of the broom was pointed up. That handle tip was down at the ground.
19:55 Funnily enough, there's actually a Gilbert & Sullivan opera where, while the witch doesn't escape being burned, she does place a curse on her persecutor's family line so they have to commit daily crime or perish in agony, which sets the conflict for the protagonist who's a descendant of that line. The opera is called _Ruddigore_ , for those curious.
Paul Bunyan was a folk tell mostly know in Minnesota (I believe) for “creating” the Great Lakes and the many lakes in Minnesota and the blue Ox was Paul’s friend after Paul freed the Ox from a trap but that’s the most I know from the story
A small correction/addition, most what we associate with the greeks comes from the minoans, one of the early cultures on the island of crete. The mycenians later took oder the minoan land and culture after it was weakened by natural catastrophes. Overwise fun and informational video as always!
The story of Paul Bunyan was one I was curious about as well. Aparently according to some sources (museums, the internet, etc....) Paul Bunyan was largely based off a real lumberjack named Fabian Fournier, a rather large man for his time (6' back then).
If I remember rightly, one theory of why witches are associated with brooms is actually from Germanic beer brewers, but I can't find my source anymore. Shame too, as it was a very well-drawn comic strip
From what I remmember, the idea of witches riding brooms was more literal than intended. Most people who were thought to practice witchcraft were women, and of those women a common drug used for wholistic medicine which they practiced was a halucigen that had to be administered some how, well one common way of administering it was to put it on the end of a broom handle and well.... ride ... it ..... Ya. I don't know how true it is, its been a while since I seen the origin stories but ya, that's one theory at least.
Some small mistakes, the Sphinx does not predate the pyramids. It’s widely accepted by Egyptologists that the Sphinx was commissioned by the Pharaoh Khafre in the late 25th century BC. That’s after the Great Pyramid of Khufu was built. Khufu was Khafre’s father, and Khafre would not inherit the throne until after the death of his brother and predecessor Djedefre. Also, the Great Pyramids at Giza are only a few of the many dozens of pyramids built in Saqqara. Many of them are older than both the Sphinx and the Great Pyramids. The very first was Djoser’s step pyramid, designed by his grand vizier Imhotep. The great pyramids also don’t really include any significant nods to Osiris or Isis. They were built using predominantly Heliopolitan cosmology, which held Ra, Atum, Khepri and Khnum in particular esteem. Cults of Osiris and Isis emerged much much later. Also Egyptian ceremonial writings are hieroglyphs, not hieroglyphics.
Just one point I need to mention regarding the 100 years war. It wasn't necessarily the gunpowder which bought the English to lose the war. The English army had been using cannons for about a 100 years. During the battle of Crecy, the English used their cannons on the battlefield for the first time and used them again in the seige of Halfleur. The main reasons for England's collapse was firstly because of political infighting within the English nobility, Henry VI was a child at this time and various barons bickered of who would be the King's protector when they should have been concentrating on consolidation. France saw this weakness and banded together behind the Dauphin and of course Joan D'Arc. Not only this, but France recognised by now that Feudal armies were becoming obsolete and started to move towards professional soldiers and mercenaries. Cannon fire was used by the French against English held castles on a couple of occasions, but by the time the French had took their crown back, Henry was already facing losing his own English crown against members of his own family. ... and we all know what happened after that. It was ironic that the same thing that caused France's crown to fall to the English was the same reason that England's crown fell to the descendents of the king who started the war in the first place. Is that hubris??? Kinda sounds like hubris.
I dig the way your brain works. You see something unusual and immediately ask where it came from instead of just accepting it like we’ve all been our whole lives. These vids are awesome
13:50 - Babe was born during the "blue" snow. So, of course, she's blue. Though, I think I heard somewhere that she was a calf who died from the cold, and while Paul Bunyan was able to revive her, she retained the "blue" color from the cold.
It is true that the American Buffalo.. or rather Bison was hunted to near extinction, but I did find this. "As of July 2015, an estimated 4,900 bison lived in Yellowstone National Park, the largest U.S. bison population on public land." (Geremia C, Wallen R, White PJ.) They're not on the endangered species list anymore, but a good chunk of them are hybrids and only 5% (out of 150,000 which is around 7500) are pureblood bison. There's a whole wiki-article about Bison Conservation about this stuff that I can't do justice here.
Fun fact: Godzila's real name is Gordon Zillias, he had his name legally changed after he turned 18 to distance himself from his family who had a bad reputation for causing wonton destruction in the old country. But old habits came back to haunt, and the rest is history.
2:14 The Sphinx doesn't predate the Pyramids, most historians generally attribute it to Khafre, the son of Khufu (who built the Great Pyramid), who also built the 2nd largest Pyramid at Giza. This is generally assumed because Khafre also build a larger funerary complex around his pyramid, that also connected to the Sphinx, which was probably carved out of the rock that was left during the excavation of the quarry for his pyramid.
Lol they claim the sphinx was built 7000 years before the Giza pyramids(ca. 2500 BC). C'mon I admire Egypt, but Egyptologists, Afrocentrics and other Egyptian lovers always try to make Egypt be older than it is. They also claim that Khafre carved out the original face of the sphinx and changed it with his face 😂
Regarding the broom: I once saw a video on that topic. The idea proposed was that witches were just brewing beer to make a nice buck. When others started to enter the buisiness, the easiest way to get rid of them was accusing them of witchcraft. So there you get the kettle. The cat was for hunting mice, since you were likely to get some in that business and the broom was probably just for cleaning and maybe eveh hung above the door to indicate, you could get beer there. If i can find it, I try to post the link.
5:19 that is incorrect Champillion didnt use the Rosetta stone to decipher the hieroglyphs he used Coptic to work out Demotic and then used Demotic to translate the hieroglyphs . Common misperception though .
I'm not sure if Tom hiding in the rafters was in the written stories, but I do recall that scene from the 1995 movie "Tom & Huck" starring Johnathan Taylor Thomas as Tom Sawyer and Brad Renfro as Huckleberry Finn.
You're right. Except for the Tim part. Tom Sawyer gets to witness his own funeral from the rafters. He eventually interrupts the ceremony to let them know he's not dead.
Would love to see your reaction to Rammsteins "Deutschland" Musicvideo. It goes through german history from the roman empire until today, with many details most viewers dont even get. Seeing a history teachers reaction to it would be so nice!
where broom riding comes from: pagan ritual of dancing with poles, or the best nearest pole-like household appliance, the broom. Now only seeing paintings of these dances could be interpreted as flying on the broom. (Cauldron comes from brewing beer btw.)
The thing to note about the current hypothesized location of Troy is that the original discoverer didn't even realize what he actually found at the time. For many years, they thought they were just working on an isolated site, but the more that the area around them kept getting dug up by modern workers, the more sites they kept finding. It wasn't until they started finding government structures that they realized that there was an entire city buried under the dirt.
Sphinx doesn't pre-date the pyramids. It was built along with Khafre's pyramid -likely uncovered when they were building the causeway and they couldn't move the stone. Today the causeway is crooked and goes around the Sphinx, which is most likely the face of Khafre.
John Chapman, AKA Johnny Appleseed was what we might consider today an orchard consultant. He went through the Ohio valley assisting and sometimes planting and maintaining apple orchards. He is buried in Fort Wayne, IN.
The riding of brooms myth came from an old rural English tradition where on the full moon after the first planting, the townsfolk would go out into the field, stand astride brooms and leap into the air to show the crops how high they wanted them to grow.
The builders were also given a burial place of Honour beside the pyramids. I remember when they found them, everyone was talking about the discovery in the archaeology community.
Man, you'll love Futurama then, they have lots of historic jokes and even, being on year 3000 (and so on) they invent a lot of fake historic events wich some are alamingly possible xD
Johnny Appleseed was Joh Chapman, a Swedenborgian minister who moved through Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. At the time, planting orchards was a common method of developing land for claims. Chapman often went into an uncleared area ahead of other settlers and tried to start the process.
Have to make the obvious comment that neither the French nor British flags shown in the Hundred Years' War part are accurate to the period! And Joan was captured by the Burgundians, and given to the English.
Doubly so since the Scottish were explicitly on the side of the French during the HYW, yet the Union flag implies they were, well, united. Even weirder is the fact that it's the pre-1801 union to give the impression of being a historical flag while being the exact opposite.
I love your vibe, Mr. Terry! Can't pinpoint what exactly it is, just the ... motivation you give of. Pretty neat! Thanks for explaining some of those jokes.
witches riding broomsticks came from the sale and marketing of ale in the late middle ages. Ale makers and sellers were primarily women selling the excess ale from that week's batch. It was made in/served out of cauldrons, and the women would wear large pointed hats in markets and on the streets to signal that they were currently selling ale. Later, alehouses used bundles of sticks (aka broomsticks) as signage to indicate they sold ale. Cats were also associated with witches, because ale was made of grain, and brewers often kept cats to keep rodents out of their brewing grain.
Chief Wiggum was originally based on Edward G Robinson. Kinda cool they have Wiggum playing the "Slave Overseer" as Edward G Robinson played Dathan (the slave Overseer) in the movie The Ten Commandments.
the buffalos joining in on the laughter while looking at each other in worry and uncertainty is just wonderful comedy 😂also when homer starts believing that he killed all the buffalo and starts crying in apparent remorse only to then spot two more and shoot them right away, then return to crying in remorse, as if actually worried, can be seen as a pretty deep critique of some aspects of societies and humanity as a whole, in my opinion. the simpsons were really packing a punch back in their heyday.
The earliest known image of witches on brooms dates to 1451, when two illustrations appeared in the French poet Martin Le Franc's manuscript Le Champion des Dames (The Defender of Ladies). In the two drawings, one woman soars through the air on a broom; the other flies aboard a plain white stick.
Another historical fun fact: "Fire!" as a command to archers or catapults didn't exist. This command came up after the invention of early gunpowder powered weapons, and it was telling the shooters to light the fuses, which means that it took a while between the command and the shot.
Story about the finding of troy. There were actually a bunch of different cities in troy location (want to say up to even like 10 different cities through the ages) The guy who found it theorized one of the lower cities (the farther down you go older you go) was the mythical troy. And in process of going to it destroyed a lot of the upper layers and newer cities. We know theorize that the mythological troy that could of possibly been sacked by the Mycenaean was one of the higher up ones that the guy destroyed
The Paul Bunyan story Started in Bangor Maine, when lumber was in big demand, it was also said that Paul was lonely so he found a Ox in the "Blue" Ridge mountains where he would wrestle with the Ox, day Babe (the Ox) threw Paul down and it was said that when Paul got up he had to leverage himself by digging in the ground, giving us the Finger Lakes in New York. One day when Paul and Babe were so tired Paul was dragging his ax on the ground giving us the Grand Canyon. Then he got to old and settled in Washington State 🙄
As far as i am aware, Johnny Appleseed was a actual person. The story I heard goes that the US Govt had so much land after the Louisiana purchase that they were giving it away to anyone that could "tend" to it. So John Chapmann gathered as many apple cores and seeds from cider mills as he could and just threw them everywhere he went on his way west to "Claim" the land as his nursery. The man, as you might expect, was mad as a hatter. But there is a memorial to him at his birth site in Massachusetts.
Re: longbows vs. crossbows-longbows took a lot of practice (laws in England prescribed how often & penalties), as well as a good diet. Part of the reason the French called the English “rosbifs” aka roast beef.
Working on the pyramids was also a way to pay your taxes during growing season. The skilled workers were well paid because it was their literal job. They were also well organized on-site with decent lodgings(for the time)
21:09 Riding a broom comes from the Slavic folklore. In Slavic language "broom" (miotła) is the same word as "thrower" (miotacz) and "sword" (miecz). And in Slavic folklore ancient kings and gods were flying across world on a long, metal stick throwing flames from the backside. (Polish orthography used for Slavic words) There is a legend about king Samon (Zamo) in 630AD flying on a thrower/broom to meet prophet Mehmed flying on carpet (in Arabic "carpet" and "room" are the same word: "divan"), it suprisingly coincides with a legend about Mayan king Pacal also flying on a broom behind Ocean for some high council. Remember that rocket-engine is much, much, much easier to build and to use than normal piston-engine. Where the tradition sais were landing places for wizzards/wiches, now we build stadiums and actual airports, and it is usually perfectly geodetically in line between "woman" churches (st. Mary, st. Claire) in all the Central and Eastern Europe.
I recall reading somewhere that in parts of Europe, when these women would meet in their covens, they would brew halocins - hence the whole cauldron thing - and then paint the concoction on their bodies with something akin to a broom...hence the broomstick being associated with witches.
Paul Bunyan is a legend that comes to the States from Quebcois (French Canadian) immigrants. The same character exists in Quebec " Bon Jean" or in old french bugne. The first reference to him in the States is in Michigan, where many French Canadians settled.
Johnny Appleseed was born in Leominster MA, the rest stop on Route 2 in Leominster is called the Johnny Appleseed Visitors' Center. He was a missionary for the Swedenborgian (The New Church) and besides apple trees (of a variety only useful for making cider) he also planted dogfennel, now regarded as a noxious and invasive weed.
From what I found online both the Paul Bunyan folktale and the John Appleseed folktale are based on real people. Paul Bunyan was based on a real French-Canadian timberman who made his way south and got a job as a foreman of a logging crew in Michigan after the civil war. While Johnny Appleseed was a farmer named John Chapman. He was born in Leominister, Massachusetts in 1774. He had a dream to produce so many apples that no one could ever go hungry.
Witch flying on brooms came about from old pagan rituals where they were trying to make the crops grow by dancing leaping high into the air while mounted on the brooms, pitchforks, and poles like they were horses.
Paul bunion was a folk story he saved this frozen little calf and it stayed blue. He loved it so much it grew big like himself. They used to play alot and they made the plains and basically formed alot of America's land marks. Then he lost his bull and buried him where the black hills are today. Then he went to Alaska never to be seen again.
Some experts think the Paul Bunyan myths were inspired by an actual lumberjack who was much stronger and physically larger than an average person. And over time he eventually became an actual giant that was used to explain things like the grand canyon.
Opium was available in the US during the 1800's and even earlier, it was used not only for its pain numbing effects but to induce constipation to treat diarrhea and prevent death from dehydration
Johnny Appleseed aka John Chapman, came from Leominster, MA (Also home of the pink plastic lawn flamingo). If I recall, there was a study done re: The Odyssey, trying to identify the various events from the voyage. Our local library in Fitchburg, MA had copies of the Salem trials transcripts.
opium is actually from the middle east and come from a flower called the poppy. (very pretty flower, usually red. my grandma had some in her back yard many years ago.) more specifically you cut the bulb that becomes the flower and harvest the milk like substance that comes out and dry it into a powder. it's been around for a very long time.
About the broom riding, one theory is drugged up naughty stuff. People ate contaminated grain and suffered from ergotism, which comes with convulsions and mania and, consequently, horniness to the umpteenth degree. So, sometimes you'd see convulsing maniacs speaking in tongues and "misappropriating" broom handles.
Paul Bunyan is marketing copy for a lumber company... Johnny Appleseed is a Sweedenborgian itinerant preacher named John Chapman. He died in 1845 in Ft. Wayne Indiana.
I instantly see that I will like this guy. This is my first video watch of the channel. I see a Mario mushroom, Fallout mascot, and a Destiny goast. I immediately know I will like this channel. The background decor really displays your personality so that is what I look at first with new youtubers I discover.
Ok, so as a Swede, I'll have to say. 1. We didn't have horns on our helmets. 2. Most Vikings were actually quite friendly. Swedish Vikings were for the most part farmers, and were developing agriculture as a way of living. Norwegian Vikings were explorers, they were the first people to set foot on Iceland, Greenland (which they later sold to Denmark), and parts of North America, like the east coast of Canada, and partway down to what today is known as Manhattan, they even traded with the local natives. 3. For the most part it was only the Danish Vikings that were rude, they were the most violent ones that conquered parts of England & Scotland, the Faroe Isles, parts of northern France, and raided what today is known as Istanbul.
- Barney appeared to represent Dionysus in the Odyssey skit. - I've actually heard that the association of witches with brooms originally was originally with the plant 'broom' and later transferred to the cleaning utensil it was commonly made into
I feel like the simpson's one is more like a play on school feeling like a prison or something, and you're just there slaving away doing whatever the grown-ups laid out for you. They just put it under an Egyptian themed skin.
The Lore podcast just covered witches and broomstick. For an abbreviated spoiler, magical transport was always an important witch lore and witch trials. As you proceed into the 1700’s the broomstick was predominant artefact cited.
Im not sure if you've seen the show, but I think you would really like Stargate SG1. Its a sci-fi show, but a lot of the stuff they deal with has to do with myths or ancient religions being based in reality, the ancient gods were alien races, and they cover a bunch of other mythology like Atlantis, King Arthur, and more.
Gunpowder was the WMD of the ancient world. It changed warfare forever. In fact the Middle Ages was basically one big Cold War with the Holy Roman Empire vs the Ottomans, with the Crusades being their version of the Vietnam War.
Babe was a separate yarn, an even early legend to Paul Bunyun, the two were syncretized as they were both popular tales in the area around early 18th century.
These tall tales and yarns were largely told by loggers to ease boredom, as well as very exaggerated accounts of actual feats, with Bunyun becoming a stand-in for that "great guy" in your logging camp, the charismatic guy, the intelligent guy who came up with an ingenious or, perhaps just bizarre, solution to a camp's dilemma, or very strong guy that solo'd a large tree... They all had their stories exaggerated and became Paul Bunyun
One story about Babe is that he was a small, weak calf discarded by his mother who froze in the winter, Paul Bunyun found Babe near death, and, taking pity on him, carried Babe back to his camp or warmed him up next to a fire with warm Maple syrup (or booze). Babe had turned blue because he was so cold, but Paul Bunyan saved him and he grew to be very large, merely by eating the same diet as Paul Bunyan and merely by being by his side
Johnny Appleseed was a real person. Not with that name of course, but there was a young man who travelled across America (probably just the Ohio area) planting apple trees
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What was your favorite joke?
The scottish janitor being the slave driver is funny.
Scottish janitor one
Not so much the joke itself. But your reaction on the "thinking about trojans" made it so much funnier. I actually made a couple of my old teachers have similar reactions to my jokes when i was in school."
Your face during the Trojan joke was so worth it. 🤣
*insert something here about yo momma jokes*
Johnny Appleseed, born John Chapman in 1774 was a reverend and pioneer conservationist who introduced Apple trees into large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and Ontario by establishing nurseries from which people could purchase sapplings
And then he was mauled to death by a bear.
And his gardens were made to make alcoholic cider. Yum.
@@gregcourtney751 What else would you drink? Stale water? Yuck.
@@gregcourtney751 I mean, it's not like they were good for anything else. Apples are VERY genetically divergent, and most edible apples are propagated through grafting. For religious reasons he didn't do that.
@@Jp41999 I mean, I don’t remember who said this but the way to tell what a good civilization is two things: people, and alcohol.
You need clean water to make alcohol.
Fun fact: In the Salem witch trials no witch was every actually burned. Most of them were hung and some were crushed with huge stones. Burning was a European thing.
Only Giles Corey was crushed
One was crushed but not as a witch he was crushed because he wouldn't enter a plea of guilty or not guilty
There’s some illustrations of dunking machines, where they were tied to basically a seesaw and dunked and held* under to see if they’d die. :(
@@nickihere8753 that's still Europe
@@billwhite515 the Chad who told them to add more weight when asked for a confession
As far as I know, Paul Bunyan was a real person who was really tall for the time. He wasn't like Godzilla tall, only like a foot taller than the average person. I'm not sure where the ox came from though.
Maybe a farmer?
Paul Bonyan was a french canadian woodcutter who emigrated to the US. His last name was french so the people of his town started calling him Paul Bonyan because he often used the french expression "Bon-Yenn!" witch his a french canadian expression for surprise. More than 1 million of french canadian moved the the US during the 19th century because of the poor quality of life here due to the british dominance. He was very tall and very very strong and stories about him became legend.
There is no person that ever existed, they are a collection of old folk tales that later merged into one thing through many retellings and an author who collected folk tales to create the story we know today. Many people actually think they may have not been actual folktales and K. Bernice Stewart & Homer A. Watt just made it all up and connected it to folktales from lumberjacks lol.
The version most Americans know was entirely made up by William B. Laughead who was an advertising copywriter in 1916, he created the name Babe the blue ox and the stories of him creating famous landmarks. It's an entirely fictional character.
I thought Paul Bunyan was like 10 or 15 feet tall
@@jabber1990 the story I heard was that he was 63 axe handles tall. 36in or 3ft is your standard axe handle 63x3=189ft tall
mr terry: "i apologize on behalf of my ancestors"
as a german, i feel you...
Ancestral fault is not a thing. You didn't do anything. Why do you have to apoligize on behalf of those Idiot Ancestors?
I'm an Austrian and one of my Great-Grandfathers was a Hardliner Nazi, who fought even after the war was over. This Guy was an absolute Idiot, but only he has any fault over it and only he can apoligize for what he did.
Well he himself did technically nothing. He did not any Massmurders or anything like that. He was just a Soldier. But you get what I mean right?
@@admiralmonocle3874 Right? You guys didn't do jack shit, no need to apologize.
@@admiralmonocle3874 germans have been badly indoctrinated in their schools to feel bad about their history. It's a big problem
@@admiralmonocle3874 Its true it doesnt make much sense to say sorry when the person themselves did not do anything. But its still good to sometimes take note of our recent ancestry. If for example, there are unjust laws giving a person extra priviliges or removing rights from others unlike them based on old criterias. It puts that person in a position to properly fight back that injustice, as it can often be harder or impossible for the group oppressed by those same laws to do so. If such a situation arrives and the person doesn't do anything about it are they not a bit responsible for that specific ongoing injustice? Saying sorry would still not change anything however.
@@zayne50 no but his dear old grandpapa probably fucking did😂😂
21:04 - In some parts of Swedish folklore, the witches were said to have been riding on a flying cow. The cow being upside down and flying backwards. This came from witnesses who claimed to have seen it with their own eyes. This was part of the Swedish hysteria surrounding witches and the burning there of.
I heard it was because women were pleasuring themselves with various objects, brooms included. But that sounds interesting. I'll check it out!
@@liamwilkinson9732 i heard the same thing
@@liamwilkinson9732 I was told it had to do with Germanic women making beer “ black cars for mice and brooms for both sweeping and brewing perposes with the handle “ but I’ve also heard that one and like 30 more lol
@@johnbarnes9542 maybe we should settle for the most reasonable explanation: witches really were flying around on broomsticks
@@liamwilkinson9732 wait, you want to check the brooming? Oh god spare you
His face after the "wood and Trojans" joke...
This is why Trojans is a horrible idea for a condom company
@@billwhite515 Seamen goes inside thing, they penetrate inside something else, and then break out.
They arrived on boats after all.
So Spartan Condoms or Athenian Condoms are better
@@billwhite515 historically, yup.
Kinda don't want hidden objects to get out and wreck your livelihood
You should watch through Futurama. One of the running gags is how Fry, a guy from the past who was accidentally frozen and wakes up in the far future, is constantly running across things the future folks get wrong about history.
Plus, it's just a hilarious and entertaining show.
Futurama is one of comedy animations greatest!
Speaking of troy and Achilles, my theory is that achilles is that the story is that his armor was super strong, that it made him seem invincible, but because of the exposed skin in his sandals, he was able to get killed
So you think he wasn’t dipped into the river of the underworld to become nigh invulnerable, with the exception of his mothers finger that covered part of his heel?
Sounds like some Troy fake news propaganda to me.
Would you just so happen to be interested in a giant wooden horse? I happen to have one soars that I need to get rid of.
@@frankwest5388 sure, I'll take it. I'll offer it as a gift to the gods
21:00 the witches riding the broom came from people witnessing some ceremonies where "witches' would get on brooms (made of straw) and jump as high as they could to show the wheat (also straw ... sort of) how tall to grow. then as how most things go, the stories got more and more exaggerated in each retelling, till they were said to be flying (like superman)
Paul Bunyan is a legendary hero and enormous lumberjack in American and Canadian folklore. The figure originated in the oral tradition of North American loggers and was subsequently popularized in a 1916 advertising leaflet for the Red River Lumber Company by freelance writer William B. Laughead (1882-1958).
Historians think Bunyan was modeled in part on a real lumberjack: Fabian Fournier, a French-Canadian timberman who traveled south after the Civil War and worked as the foreman of a logging team in Michigan. Fournier's mythology fused with that of another French-Canadian lumberman, Bon Jean, through time. By the early 20th century, both men had become associated with an entire nation of people called Canada who lived in large forests and liked to listen to stories at night.
Bunyan first appeared in print in 1900 in a collection of poems called The Lumberjack. The poet and journalist William Allen White wrote the introduction to this book. It tells the story of Bunyan trying to save his family business from going under. To do this, he goes to work for the largest company in their town, which happens to be owned by his relatives. However, Bunyan soon realizes that working for money is not what matters most in life. It is how you treat others that counts. With no other options left, he decides to go north into the big woods and make his living cutting trees.
Since then, Bunyan has become a popular figure in America. He appears in comic books, television shows, and movies. There are even two national parks named after him. One is in Minnesota and the other in Maine.
Minnesota was the only place I'd heard of him, so I thought it was a state thing
There’s also the French-Canadian Joseph "Jos" Montferrand born Joseph Favre who was from 1802 to 1864 known as the Ottawa valley figure of Big Joe Mufferaw. Who was 6 foot 4 and is known to have done well in boxing and street-fights and was a voyageur and then lumber worker in the ottawa area with legends of him protecting Quebecois against irish canadians
He basically said it himself while discussing the Trojan War. A possibly real person does some impressive things and oral tradition exaggerates them to the point that a really tall lumberjack gets turned into a giant reshaping the land.
Paul Bunyan is not folklore but fakelore.
BTW, the story with the Trojan Horse is a bit more complicated. First, it had no "wheels". Second, they made a complicate ruse leaving a "disgruntled Greek" behind, who would tell the trojans that if they put the horse inside the city, the city will be protected by the gods.
Third, the trojans didn´t buy it. Laokoon, a priest of Apollo (or Poseidon, depends who you read) said loudly "I am sure the belly of that horse is full of warriors" and threw a javelin to the horse, and it sounded hollow. The trojans started gathering wood under it to burn it down.
But Laokoon had been passionately hugging some priestess in the temple, and Apollo (or Poseidon) was very pissed. So suddenly two very big snakes came out of the water and ate him and his sons alive.
The trojans saw this as a warning of the gods, so they stopped the destruction of the horse and brought it inside.
Edited> typos, grammar.
You almost rhymed
@@MDG-mykys Now I notice. And I see a lot of editing needs now that I reread. With the years, I write worse and worse.
@@wimpow Now, 'if we just built this wooden badger'? (Sir Bedevere, I believe)
Ha, destiny has a weird sense of humor xD
It was Poseidon. Because Odysseus failed to give him a proper sacrifice as thanks for killing Laokoon, Poseidon ensured that Odysseus would never sail back to Ithica
You're the type of history teacher that there should be more of in this world. Making history interesting is a challenge in of itself, and you pull it off flawlessly.
I was told in my witchcraft history class(we cover Britain, Germany/central Europe and Salem) that the stereotypical female witch riding a broom came from because woman cleaned the house back in those days that was the tool commonly associated seeming for male witches because most men did farm work male which is why male witches ride pitch forks.
well, witches didn`t exactly ride only on brooms. In stories they just had a kind of "flying paste" they applied to something and then that thing could fly.
The fact that whatever school you attend teaches witchcraft history but not how to write intelligible sentences has me very worried about the future.
@@MikeNascimbeni well I'm not great at English or languages in general but doesn't stop me from learning about history.
I heard claim that the idea of witches riding brooms came from Pagan Europe. Supposedly it had something to do with the harvest. What is more of the modern romanticism was how the broom was heard. The sweeping business end of the broom was pointed up. That handle tip was down at the ground.
Holy shit ‘witchcraft history class’ this has to be in america, only schools as shitty as theirs would have these kinds of ridiculous classes
19:55 Funnily enough, there's actually a Gilbert & Sullivan opera where, while the witch doesn't escape being burned, she does place a curse on her persecutor's family line so they have to commit daily crime or perish in agony, which sets the conflict for the protagonist who's a descendant of that line.
The opera is called _Ruddigore_ , for those curious.
My favorite Simpsons history was when they did Lewis and Clark. I also liked when they did Mozart, and Queen Elizabeth I.
Paul Bunyan was a folk tell mostly know in Minnesota (I believe) for “creating” the Great Lakes and the many lakes in Minnesota and the blue Ox was Paul’s friend after Paul freed the Ox from a trap but that’s the most I know from the story
14:28 Lord knows I'm not overly in love with the historical anthologies, but Homer's song here cracks me up every time.
A small correction/addition, most what we associate with the greeks comes from the minoans, one of the early cultures on the island of crete. The mycenians later took oder the minoan land and culture after it was weakened by natural catastrophes.
Overwise fun and informational video as always!
The story of Paul Bunyan was one I was curious about as well.
Aparently according to some sources (museums, the internet, etc....) Paul Bunyan was largely based off a real lumberjack named Fabian Fournier, a rather large man for his time (6' back then).
If I remember rightly, one theory of why witches are associated with brooms is actually from Germanic beer brewers, but I can't find my source anymore. Shame too, as it was a very well-drawn comic strip
From what I remmember, the idea of witches riding brooms was more literal than intended. Most people who were thought to practice witchcraft were women, and of those women a common drug used for wholistic medicine which they practiced was a halucigen that had to be administered some how, well one common way of administering it was to put it on the end of a broom handle and well.... ride ... it ..... Ya. I don't know how true it is, its been a while since I seen the origin stories but ya, that's one theory at least.
@@sterlingodeaghaidh5086 Damn, not only did the witches have fun tormenting kids but also traumatizing their poor brooms…
Some small mistakes, the Sphinx does not predate the pyramids. It’s widely accepted by Egyptologists that the Sphinx was commissioned by the Pharaoh Khafre in the late 25th century BC. That’s after the Great Pyramid of Khufu was built. Khufu was Khafre’s father, and Khafre would not inherit the throne until after the death of his brother and predecessor Djedefre.
Also, the Great Pyramids at Giza are only a few of the many dozens of pyramids built in Saqqara. Many of them are older than both the Sphinx and the Great Pyramids. The very first was Djoser’s step pyramid, designed by his grand vizier Imhotep.
The great pyramids also don’t really include any significant nods to Osiris or Isis. They were built using predominantly Heliopolitan cosmology, which held Ra, Atum, Khepri and Khnum in particular esteem. Cults of Osiris and Isis emerged much much later.
Also Egyptian ceremonial writings are hieroglyphs, not hieroglyphics.
Just one point I need to mention regarding the 100 years war.
It wasn't necessarily the gunpowder which bought the English to lose the war. The English army had been using cannons for about a 100 years. During the battle of Crecy, the English used their cannons on the battlefield for the first time and used them again in the seige of Halfleur.
The main reasons for England's collapse was firstly because of political infighting within the English nobility, Henry VI was a child at this time and various barons bickered of who would be the King's protector when they should have been concentrating on consolidation. France saw this weakness and banded together behind the Dauphin and of course Joan D'Arc. Not only this, but France recognised by now that Feudal armies were becoming obsolete and started to move towards professional soldiers and mercenaries.
Cannon fire was used by the French against English held castles on a couple of occasions, but by the time the French had took their crown back, Henry was already facing losing his own English crown against members of his own family. ... and we all know what happened after that.
It was ironic that the same thing that caused France's crown to fall to the English was the same reason that England's crown fell to the descendents of the king who started the war in the first place. Is that hubris??? Kinda sounds like hubris.
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I dig the way your brain works. You see something unusual and immediately ask where it came from instead of just accepting it like we’ve all been our whole lives. These vids are awesome
13:50 - Babe was born during the "blue" snow. So, of course, she's blue. Though, I think I heard somewhere that she was a calf who died from the cold, and while Paul Bunyan was able to revive her, she retained the "blue" color from the cold.
It is true that the American Buffalo.. or rather Bison was hunted to near extinction, but I did find this. "As of July 2015, an estimated 4,900 bison lived in Yellowstone National Park, the largest U.S. bison population on public land." (Geremia C, Wallen R, White PJ.)
They're not on the endangered species list anymore, but a good chunk of them are hybrids and only 5% (out of 150,000 which is around 7500) are pureblood bison. There's a whole wiki-article about Bison Conservation about this stuff that I can't do justice here.
I love the cut away's to the history, ancient Egypt has to be one of my favourite subjects
The boat scene reminded me of "The Outlaw Josey Wales."
"Well, Mr. Carpetbagger, we got somethin' in this territory called a Missoura boat ride..."
People accused of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials were mostly hanged rather then burned at the stake.
hanged
Hanged, not hung.
Fun fact: Godzila's real name is Gordon Zillias, he had his name legally changed after he turned 18 to distance himself from his family who had a bad reputation for causing wonton destruction in the old country. But old habits came back to haunt, and the rest is history.
2:14
The Sphinx doesn't predate the Pyramids, most historians generally attribute it to Khafre, the son of Khufu (who built the Great Pyramid), who also built the 2nd largest Pyramid at Giza. This is generally assumed because Khafre also build a larger funerary complex around his pyramid, that also connected to the Sphinx, which was probably carved out of the rock that was left during the excavation of the quarry for his pyramid.
Lol they claim the sphinx was built 7000 years before the Giza pyramids(ca. 2500 BC). C'mon I admire Egypt, but Egyptologists, Afrocentrics and other Egyptian lovers always try to make Egypt be older than it is. They also claim that Khafre carved out the original face of the sphinx and changed it with his face 😂
@@alissa6 The base of the Sphinx was damaged by water. There was no water in Giza when the pyramids were built (or after).
Regarding the broom:
I once saw a video on that topic.
The idea proposed was that witches were just brewing beer to make a nice buck.
When others started to enter the buisiness, the easiest way to get rid of them was accusing them of witchcraft.
So there you get the kettle. The cat was for hunting mice, since you were likely to get some in that business and the broom was probably just for cleaning and maybe eveh hung above the door to indicate, you could get beer there.
If i can find it, I try to post the link.
5:19 that is incorrect Champillion didnt use the Rosetta stone to decipher the hieroglyphs he used Coptic to work out Demotic and then used Demotic to translate the hieroglyphs . Common misperception though .
I'm not sure if Tom hiding in the rafters was in the written stories, but I do recall that scene from the 1995 movie "Tom & Huck" starring Johnathan Taylor Thomas as Tom Sawyer and Brad Renfro as Huckleberry Finn.
The Tim Sawyer thing, I thought he was hiding in the rafters at his own funeral.
You're right. Except for the Tim part. Tom Sawyer gets to witness his own funeral from the rafters. He eventually interrupts the ceremony to let them know he's not dead.
@@WildBluntHickok One little typo of one letter that's right next to the other letter on the keyboard and you never hear the end of it. lol.
one of my favorites was Mr. Burns hitting a Cray computer "you call this a super computer?"
Would love to see your reaction to Rammsteins "Deutschland" Musicvideo. It goes through german history from the roman empire until today, with many details most viewers dont even get. Seeing a history teachers reaction to it would be so nice!
Actually, I’ve seen that video. It’s great. Very powerful!
where broom riding comes from: pagan ritual of dancing with poles, or the best nearest pole-like household appliance, the broom. Now only seeing paintings of these dances could be interpreted as flying on the broom. (Cauldron comes from brewing beer btw.)
Don't feel too bad, Mr. Terry. If I recall correctly, Marge was a witch. So your ancestors were completely justified.
Phew. I no longer need to carry this shame.
@@MrTerry Happy to help, though be aware that, depending on who they were, your ancestor might've been a snowman or a gopher.
The thing to note about the current hypothesized location of Troy is that the original discoverer didn't even realize what he actually found at the time. For many years, they thought they were just working on an isolated site, but the more that the area around them kept getting dug up by modern workers, the more sites they kept finding. It wasn't until they started finding government structures that they realized that there was an entire city buried under the dirt.
Sphinx doesn't pre-date the pyramids. It was built along with Khafre's pyramid -likely uncovered when they were building the causeway and they couldn't move the stone. Today the causeway is crooked and goes around the Sphinx, which is most likely the face of Khafre.
Sphinx definitely predates the pyramids. Khufu writes that he restored the sphinx and he was before khafre.
@@Aeneiden Source?
John Chapman, AKA Johnny Appleseed was what we might consider today an orchard consultant. He went through the Ohio valley assisting and sometimes planting and maintaining apple orchards. He is buried in Fort Wayne, IN.
The riding of brooms myth came from an old rural English tradition where on the full moon after the first planting, the townsfolk would go out into the field, stand astride brooms and leap into the air to show the crops how high they wanted them to grow.
The builders were also given a burial place of Honour beside the pyramids. I remember when they found them, everyone was talking about the discovery in the archaeology community.
Man, you'll love Futurama then, they have lots of historic jokes and even, being on year 3000 (and so on) they invent a lot of fake historic events wich some are alamingly possible xD
Johnny Appleseed was Joh Chapman, a Swedenborgian minister who moved through Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. At the time, planting orchards was a common method of developing land for claims. Chapman often went into an uncleared area ahead of other settlers and tried to start the process.
Can someone explain to me the ,,wood and trojans'' joke? I dont get it. Is it some english joke? I dont speak english that well so idk.
Trojan is a condom brand and having wood is when your d!ck is hard like a tree
Trojans are a brand of condom and wood is slang for boner
8:15 "you just destroyed Altantis"
😂😂😂
Have to make the obvious comment that neither the French nor British flags shown in the Hundred Years' War part are accurate to the period!
And Joan was captured by the Burgundians, and given to the English.
Doubly so since the Scottish were explicitly on the side of the French during the HYW, yet the Union flag implies they were, well, united.
Even weirder is the fact that it's the pre-1801 union to give the impression of being a historical flag while being the exact opposite.
7:33 lmao.
My brain, "How's he gonna field that one?"
Mr.Terry: sidestep and a head bob. Difficultly averted.
could u explain it to me please? i don't realy get it and im kinda curios
I love your vibe, Mr. Terry! Can't pinpoint what exactly it is, just the ... motivation you give of. Pretty neat!
Thanks for explaining some of those jokes.
witches riding broomsticks came from the sale and marketing of ale in the late middle ages. Ale makers and sellers were primarily women selling the excess ale from that week's batch. It was made in/served out of cauldrons, and the women would wear large pointed hats in markets and on the streets to signal that they were currently selling ale. Later, alehouses used bundles of sticks (aka broomsticks) as signage to indicate they sold ale. Cats were also associated with witches, because ale was made of grain, and brewers often kept cats to keep rodents out of their brewing grain.
Chief Wiggum was originally based on Edward G Robinson. Kinda cool they have Wiggum playing the "Slave Overseer" as Edward G Robinson played Dathan (the slave Overseer) in the movie The Ten Commandments.
the buffalos joining in on the laughter while looking at each other in worry and uncertainty is just wonderful comedy 😂also when homer starts believing that he killed all the buffalo and starts crying in apparent remorse only to then spot two more and shoot them right away, then return to crying in remorse, as if actually worried, can be seen as a pretty deep critique of some aspects of societies and humanity as a whole, in my opinion. the simpsons were really packing a punch back in their heyday.
The broom riding is associated with the Women who ran bars, that’s also where the cauldron and large hats also come into witch folklore
The earliest known image of witches on brooms dates to 1451, when two illustrations appeared in the French poet Martin Le Franc's manuscript Le Champion des Dames (The Defender of Ladies). In the two drawings, one woman soars through the air on a broom; the other flies aboard a plain white stick.
Another historical fun fact: "Fire!" as a command to archers or catapults didn't exist. This command came up after the invention of early gunpowder powered weapons, and it was telling the shooters to light the fuses, which means that it took a while between the command and the shot.
that german archeologist was heinrich schliemann
he found troy in the 1870s
Story about the finding of troy.
There were actually a bunch of different cities in troy location (want to say up to even like 10 different cities through the ages)
The guy who found it theorized one of the lower cities (the farther down you go older you go) was the mythical troy. And in process of going to it destroyed a lot of the upper layers and newer cities.
We know theorize that the mythological troy that could of possibly been sacked by the Mycenaean was one of the higher up ones that the guy destroyed
7:27-7:35 I’m sorry, but his instant disappointment was just the best 😂
The Paul Bunyan story Started in Bangor Maine, when lumber was in big demand, it was also said that Paul was lonely so he found a Ox in the "Blue" Ridge mountains where he would wrestle with the Ox, day Babe (the Ox) threw Paul down and it was said that when Paul got up he had to leverage himself by digging in the ground, giving us the Finger Lakes in New York. One day when Paul and Babe were so tired Paul was dragging his ax on the ground giving us the Grand Canyon. Then he got to old and settled in Washington State 🙄
As far as i am aware, Johnny Appleseed was a actual person. The story I heard goes that the US Govt had so much land after the Louisiana purchase that they were giving it away to anyone that could "tend" to it. So John Chapmann gathered as many apple cores and seeds from cider mills as he could and just threw them everywhere he went on his way west to "Claim" the land as his nursery.
The man, as you might expect, was mad as a hatter. But there is a memorial to him at his birth site in Massachusetts.
Re: longbows vs. crossbows-longbows took a lot of practice (laws in England prescribed how often & penalties), as well as a good diet. Part of the reason the French called the English “rosbifs” aka roast beef.
Working on the pyramids was also a way to pay your taxes during growing season. The skilled workers were well paid because it was their literal job. They were also well organized on-site with decent lodgings(for the time)
21:09 Riding a broom comes from the Slavic folklore. In Slavic language "broom" (miotła) is the same word as "thrower" (miotacz) and "sword" (miecz). And in Slavic folklore ancient kings and gods were flying across world on a long, metal stick throwing flames from the backside. (Polish orthography used for Slavic words)
There is a legend about king Samon (Zamo) in 630AD flying on a thrower/broom to meet prophet Mehmed flying on carpet (in Arabic "carpet" and "room" are the same word: "divan"), it suprisingly coincides with a legend about Mayan king Pacal also flying on a broom behind Ocean for some high council. Remember that rocket-engine is much, much, much easier to build and to use than normal piston-engine.
Where the tradition sais were landing places for wizzards/wiches, now we build stadiums and actual airports, and it is usually perfectly geodetically in line between "woman" churches (st. Mary, st. Claire) in all the Central and Eastern Europe.
I recall reading somewhere that in parts of Europe, when these women would meet in their covens, they would brew halocins - hence the whole cauldron thing - and then paint the concoction on their bodies with something akin to a broom...hence the broomstick being associated with witches.
Paul Bunyan is a legend that comes to the States from Quebcois (French Canadian) immigrants. The same character exists in Quebec " Bon Jean" or in old french bugne. The first reference to him in the States is in Michigan, where many French Canadians settled.
Johnny Appleseed was born in Leominster MA, the rest stop on Route 2 in Leominster is called the Johnny Appleseed Visitors' Center. He was a missionary for the Swedenborgian (The New Church) and besides apple trees (of a variety only useful for making cider) he also planted dogfennel, now regarded as a noxious and invasive weed.
"The Bush set me up!" was a joke ribbing on Marion Barry.
From what I found online both the Paul Bunyan folktale and the John Appleseed folktale are based on real people. Paul Bunyan was based on a real French-Canadian timberman who made his way south and got a job as a foreman of a logging crew in Michigan after the civil war. While Johnny Appleseed was a farmer named John Chapman. He was born in Leominister, Massachusetts in 1774. He had a dream to produce so many apples that no one could ever go hungry.
Witch flying on brooms came about from old pagan rituals where they were trying to make the crops grow by dancing leaping high into the air while mounted on the brooms, pitchforks, and poles like they were horses.
Paul bunion was a folk story he saved this frozen little calf and it stayed blue. He loved it so much it grew big like himself. They used to play alot and they made the plains and basically formed alot of America's land marks. Then he lost his bull and buried him where the black hills are today. Then he went to Alaska never to be seen again.
Some experts think the Paul Bunyan myths were inspired by an actual lumberjack who was much stronger and physically larger than an average person. And over time he eventually became an actual giant that was used to explain things like the grand canyon.
The Simpsons are so old that the memories from previous episodes could be added to this list :D
As I understand Paul Bunyan is essentially a conglomeration of various lumberjack tall tails that became a mascot for logging
Opium was available in the US during the 1800's and even earlier, it was used not only for its pain numbing effects but to induce constipation to treat diarrhea and prevent death from dehydration
Johnny Appleseed aka John Chapman, came from Leominster, MA
(Also home of the pink plastic lawn flamingo).
If I recall, there was a study done re: The Odyssey, trying to identify the various events from the voyage.
Our local library in Fitchburg, MA had copies of the Salem trials transcripts.
opium is actually from the middle east and come from a flower called the poppy. (very pretty flower, usually red. my grandma had some in her back yard many years ago.) more specifically you cut the bulb that becomes the flower and harvest the milk like substance that comes out and dry it into a powder. it's been around for a very long time.
Broom riding: I've heard that in some rituals a witch will hold her broom above her head and jump, showing her crops how tall to grow
Riding the broom came from ancient pre-historic civilizations observing comet activity across the night sky.
About the broom riding, one theory is drugged up naughty stuff.
People ate contaminated grain and suffered from ergotism, which comes with convulsions and mania and, consequently, horniness to the umpteenth degree.
So, sometimes you'd see convulsing maniacs speaking in tongues and "misappropriating" broom handles.
Rosetta Stoned: when you get so high you start speaking a foreign language
In Red Dead Redemption, there is an achievement for wiping out the buffalo population. Easily the most messed up achievement I've ever gone for lol
14:45 They completely missed the opportunity to make a joke about how Homer could only carry back 100 pounds of the buffalo.
Paul Bunyan is marketing copy for a lumber company... Johnny Appleseed is a Sweedenborgian itinerant preacher named John Chapman. He died in 1845 in Ft. Wayne Indiana.
I instantly see that I will like this guy. This is my first video watch of the channel. I see a Mario mushroom, Fallout mascot, and a Destiny goast. I immediately know I will like this channel. The background decor really displays your personality so that is what I look at first with new youtubers I discover.
7:00 And the legend is that the Oracle of Delphi existed before Mycenaean took over Peloponnesus
Ok, so as a Swede, I'll have to say.
1. We didn't have horns on our helmets.
2. Most Vikings were actually quite friendly. Swedish Vikings were for the most part farmers, and were developing agriculture as a way of living. Norwegian Vikings were explorers, they were the first people to set foot on Iceland, Greenland (which they later sold to Denmark), and parts of North America, like the east coast of Canada, and partway down to what today is known as Manhattan, they even traded with the local natives.
3. For the most part it was only the Danish Vikings that were rude, they were the most violent ones that conquered parts of England & Scotland, the Faroe Isles, parts of northern France, and raided what today is known as Istanbul.
Living on Lake Michigan, I know this one! Yes, Paul Bunyan and Babe was a folktale to explain how the Great Lakes we're formed
Wiggum said fire the catapult, but it isn't a gunpowder weapon so there is no fire.
- Barney appeared to represent Dionysus in the Odyssey skit.
- I've actually heard that the association of witches with brooms originally was originally with the plant 'broom' and later transferred to the cleaning utensil it was commonly made into
I feel like the simpson's one is more like a play on school feeling like a prison or something, and you're just there slaving away doing whatever the grown-ups laid out for you. They just put it under an Egyptian themed skin.
The Lore podcast just covered witches and broomstick. For an abbreviated spoiler, magical transport was always an important witch lore and witch trials. As you proceed into the 1700’s the broomstick was predominant artefact cited.
Im not sure if you've seen the show, but I think you would really like Stargate SG1. Its a sci-fi show, but a lot of the stuff they deal with has to do with myths or ancient religions being based in reality, the ancient gods were alien races, and they cover a bunch of other mythology like Atlantis, King Arthur, and more.
Gunpowder was the WMD of the ancient world. It changed warfare forever. In fact the Middle Ages was basically one big Cold War with the Holy Roman Empire vs the Ottomans, with the Crusades being their version of the Vietnam War.
Paul Bunyun is a mix of Canadian and midwest American stories, told around logging camps. Back then entire little towns followed the logging
Babe was a separate yarn, an even early legend to Paul Bunyun, the two were syncretized as they were both popular tales in the area around early 18th century.
These tall tales and yarns were largely told by loggers to ease boredom, as well as very exaggerated accounts of actual feats, with Bunyun becoming a stand-in for that "great guy" in your logging camp, the charismatic guy, the intelligent guy who came up with an ingenious or, perhaps just bizarre, solution to a camp's dilemma, or very strong guy that solo'd a large tree...
They all had their stories exaggerated and became Paul Bunyun
One story about Babe is that he was a small, weak calf discarded by his mother who froze in the winter, Paul Bunyun found Babe near death, and, taking pity on him, carried Babe back to his camp or warmed him up next to a fire with warm Maple syrup (or booze). Babe had turned blue because he was so cold, but Paul Bunyan saved him and he grew to be very large, merely by eating the same diet as Paul Bunyan and merely by being by his side
Him: “furious Typers, there were no horns on Vikings helmets
Me:” there not called buffalo there bison
Babe the Ox was blue, because he nearly froze to death, and instead of dying, he just turned blue permanently.
Johnny Appleseed was a real person. Not with that name of course, but there was a young man who travelled across America (probably just the Ohio area) planting apple trees
The broom thing came from the idea that witches were disobedient housewives or something.