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Any chance of ever introducing the "Deus Vult" Crusader t-shirt as a pocketed hoodie? I just went to the store and I love the Crusader design so much, but I really want it on a black hoodie, so I was so bummed out to see that it wasn't available as a hoodie at all. I feel silly even commenting about this, but I really want one.😂 If it ever is available I'll order one immediately!
Not included because, sadly, it is not lethal and thus not an execution but a torture method. Which means you will survive with the damage done afterwards. truly a fate worse than death.
@@Mr.Marbleswhen my brother was in Afghanistan he was tortured relentlessly for years. When he was freed he did very well and was making progress on his ptsd. Then he watched that show it was so torturous that he immediately shot himself.
Don’t you know? The powers that be want “the worst” to always encompass ethnically white considered individuals. 😂 Asians are the 2nd individuals you are allowed to demonize as they are also pale skin. Where you been?? We still have disgusting things going on today but 🤐🤐🤐 they don’t fit the narrative of “white man evil.” Didn’t you notice the very obvious underlying theme? That the Persians didn’t commit any atrocities & these are all secretly Whitemen??💀
I think the Mayan priest wouldn't count because the intention was sacrifice, not just capital punishment, and they also cut their own man parts and bled all over. Blood from here, blood from there...They just seemed to have had LOTS of blood involved in their beliefs. Tbh I feel bad for the clean up crew working at a Mayan ritual temple! Thats A LOT of blood covered stairs to take care of! I think I would have quit by the 600th stair and just volunteered to be sacrificed 😂
This sort of thing is why the US Constitution has the Eighth Amendment, banning “cruel and unusual punishments”. These methods of theatrical cruelty was what the authors had in mind.
Instead they just set up prisons outside of the US where they can do it. That said even prisons in the US have a terrible report for things such as solitary confinement often keeping prisoners isolated for longer than the 14 days mandated by international human rights laws as the maximum duration
@@crwydryny International human right "laws" don't really exist. Laws come from a governmental body and there is no international government body able to enforce their will on the US (AKA do something against the US's consent). I think you are referring to the UNODC rules, but the UN has no actual enforcement mechanism, nor does it even in reality have any authority over such matters (Neither would we want it too, considering how horrid the UN institution is). Saying It's violating "international law" is kinda just empty rhetoric.
Burning a person (dead or alive) in Egypt was to also ensure the person could not enter the afterlife (no body to mummify). This was reserved for rebels against the crown.
Ive seen this list in some form or another so many times but its incredibly fascinating having a deeper dive into the real history of each device, and not just the macabre bits. Marvelous job as always my friend!
Besides the pain that these execution methods must have caused, what I find disturbing is that people spent quite some time coming up with these detailed and sometimes lengthy methods!
I remember a novel of Gary Jennings "The Jorneyer" about Marco Polo travelling to China, where the lingchi was very vividly described. Also recently read a visual novel about Medieval China, "The Hungry Lamb", where that method is also referenced several times.
I read about the Brazen Bull in a fantasy/magical realism novel. Was horrified of course. How much more horrifying to find out that it might have been a real thing.
@@erichinkle7347 yes, there was an historical Daji and the famous one from the Ming era novel Fengsgen Yanyi, where there are both Su Daji (a normal and actually kinda sweet girl) and the Spirit of the 1000 Years Old, 9 Tailed Fox who murders and takes her place to lead the Shang Dynasty to ruin, exacerbating Nü Wa's orders. In Japanese legends the Hakumenkinmou Kyuubinokitsune (White-faced, Golden Fur Nine-Tailed Fox) or Tamamo no Mae is said to be the very same vixen or, at least, her reborn. The creation of the scorching brass pillars is detailed in the romance
When I was the 2nd mate, we arrived in Jida in Saudi Arabia. It was Friday and we knew that public executions were taking place on that day. I gathered a few people with me to watch the spectacle, but we were never allowed into the city because we were not Muslims. An interesting fact is that even to check the cargo marks on the stern and on the bow, I was forced to walk along a strictly laid out red carpet in front of me, which I should not have left since I am a Christian.
Funny that Muslims wherever they go in the world, cry victims and claim to be oppressed. Meanwhile on Islamic countries, they treat non-Muslims like dirt on boots. Hypocrisy is Islam.
I didn’t even bother to get off when we ported in Jeddah. Too much paperwork to not even be allowed anywhere. Plus we only had a short port stay anyways.
I suppose it may have something to do with how relatable the imagery is. I don't know about you, but many people had to deal with very unpleasant situations with some blood, but most don't deal with torture and violent death.
It was Edward Long _shanks,_ not 'sharks'. 'Longshanks' was an appellation which spoke of his height, as he was supposedly far taller than his contemporaries.
Technically, the nickname Long shanks means long legs. Shanks being a term for legs. However, Edward did get the nickname for being extremely tall for his period.
I had a book on Canute and Vikings in which the Blood Eagle was mentioned and it was in honour of the King of the Gods Odin, but it was in the book I had it was said that Alfred the Great would have been the person for it to happen to
‘Breaking upon the Wheel’ or ‘Wheelbraiding’ is a nasty form of execution you should look into. Used primarily by the Dutch and Flemish people around the time of the burgeoning spice trade (think Dutch East Indies). I would recommend researching the voyage of the Dutch East India vessel ‘Batavia’ that left Holland in 1629. The whole voyage was insane from start to shipwreck and the punishment inflicted on the perpetrators of this violent murderous rampage after the shipwreck is particularly brutal. A story so unbelievable it would make a great movie. I can’t remember the name of the author but the book Batavia’s Graveyard details the whole affair and aftermath. Love the channel. Kindest Regards from the UK.
99% it's bullshit, because it's not medically plausible. Also, Ctesias had a reputation for writing bullshit, like about a race of people in India with just one leg and foot so big that they held up as a parasol...
The quote "For in general, those who plan an evil thing aimed at others are usually snared in their own devices" is quite apt. Apparently the first person in the American colonies to be sentenced to the stocks was the man who built the stocks. He was sentenced for the crime of making them too poor in quality.
I hope there is also the very horrific one in this video, where a person would be put in a hollow tree, made to not be able to get out of it, and then stuffed with milk and honey. The insects will do the rest. And they would keep coming back to stuff and smear them with milk and honey to prolong their suffering. Truly horrific.
@@kaltaron1284 Yeah, that's the one. I guess when you don't have boats you resort to slightly different versions. I forgot where I heard / read that though, unfortunately.
The idea that the screams of the victim would be modified is not correct. instead the inventer wanted to create an instrument that would represent the suffering of the victim, even long after the victim would have fallen unconscious or died. to do this you simply need a flute or similar instrument that would be blown with the steam created from the water content of the victim. imagine a whistling kettle you place a steak in.
what I find even more horrific than the methods is how villy nilly they were used. If they were reserved for regicide or mass murder it would be one thing, but.. divulging the contents of a book, seriously?
"Divulging the contents of a book", can mean treason, if the book is just secret enough. Meanwhile in China, entire families have been executed because one of them allowed someone else to misspell words. Let me elaborate: The "misspeller" was a student, the wrong words looked like the name of the Qing emperor "missing the head stroke", the person who allowed the student to write them that way was a high court mandarin grading the final exam of that student as "passed" (and the person who reported that to His thin-skinned Majesty was for sure an intrigant asshole who set the entire thing up). But nevertheless: a high court member who failed to follow the Imperial name taboo, was killed _with his entire extended family_ for High Treason, and students from that particular province were not admitted to exams for two years. And that was just ONE example how people were killed for much less.
There were a few British officers who pentrated (in disguise) various places in central asia during 'The Great Game' between Russia and the UK. Most were discovered and executed. One of those travellers described a method of execution which I have always thought the most terrible (in Bukhara I think). It was a large locked store room filled with stacks of coffin shaped boxes. They had an opening like a letterbox near the top of each box. Each day a guard would enter and offer a skin of water and some food at the letterbox openings. When this offering was no longer accepted, it was assumed that the offender inside had died and another 'coffin' could be placed on top of that particular stack. Other central asian sultanates had deep pits which contained both living and dead prisoners in which people were more or less eaten alive by insects. They were sometimes removed from these for beheading, as an act of mercy. The Sultan of Delhi was also rather inventive in the matter of gruesome executions. In native American cultures there were also Many horrible versions of death by torture, from Canada to the Tierra Del Fuego.
My number 1 will always be scaphism. The fact that the whole idea is to keep the victim alive as long as possible while insects, magots and infections slowly eat away at them. Imagine being blind, sun burnt and covered in insect bites while magots crawl under your skin, and into orifaces eating you from the inside, your fingers becoming necrotic as nerves and blood vessels are destroyed and your flesh rotting and falling off while you're pinned unable to move. All the while your captors are doing everything possible to keep you alive for as long as possible... Now imagine it with today's medical technology. I actually discussed this is a D&D group pointing out how D&D healing spells could essentially make this last for as long as the torturer desires... Ok now I've given everyone nightmares sleep well 😊
8:18 crying right now at the pronunciation you’ve had to take on of certain things, to be able to say a “naughty” word without being clocked by the ai bots. (deemed naughty only by the TH-cam Overlords)
I have a morbid fascination with these sort of ways of cruelty we humans have invented in order to cause maximum pain and humiliation on each other. And every time, along with the feeling of "wow, that is pretty crazy" is a deep bitterness and hatred for those people who cause these torments to be inflicted.
Phalaris killing Perilaüs with his own device, as a ”Thank you.”, really reminds me of Ivan IV / Ivan Groznyj / Ivan the Terrible (which, I think, is a *_Terrible_* (pun intended) name; when, at least, in Modern English, ”Terrifying” or ”Imposing” would be better translations of «Грозный» / ”Groznyj”) piercing the eyes of the Italian architect, who designed Saint Basil’s Cathedral; so that he could never create anything, as beautiful, as Saint Basil’s Cathedral, ever again. 😱😨😰
Ivan Groznyj is such a fascinating historical figure. I wonder if his infamous temperament could have been due to bipolar disorder or some other now classified mental illness.
@@lonelystrategos Yes, he is. That’s, actually, very plausible, and a very interesting possibility; given that he did have short, spontaneous, erratic, bursty periods, and then long periods of prayer, repentance, and depression, too. This certainly sounds like bipolar personality disorder, or, depending on the severity of the episodes, borderline personality disorder.
Not surprised to see Blood Eagle on the list Kinda thought they were raised up into the air after the deed was done, symbolizing a flying eagle. I guess there were no actual mentions of it. Thought i heard it somewhere
You gotta love all the references to sources. I am sick & tiered of all the YT or TikTok “historians” that talk bs without knowing anything about the subject. So yeah awesome job Metatron❤
Thinking about how my coworker said he felt like someone gave him a Blood Eagle. He’s a but younger than me so I thought it was some new schoolyard prank, kinda like Purple Nurples or Indian Burns. No, he legit meant the execution method. I still laugh at the thought that someone’s elementary school bully trying to execute someone for lunch money. 😂
I think you’ll get better traction with the old thumbnail. I know TH-cam likes the soy face thumbnail, but the other one gives you an idea of what will be covered. You see a strange device onscreen and are morbidly curious to its function. Anyway, keep up the good work man. Been watching a lot of your stuff lately.
To my modern mind (with all the problems associated) it seems so odd that ancient people were happy to use barbaric methods to cause fear, but then also resort to propaganda about how the methods their enemies use are cruel and barbaric. I often wonder if it was actually an attempt by tge ruler to shift the overton window so they could use crueler than normal punishments, as long as they stop short of what people "know" the enemy uses.
It's crazy what people are willing to do to each other. I would say it is true that most people are just apes in clothes. The amount of individuals unable to even graps the concept that "it can happen to me as well" is astonishing.
It used to shock me. Then I heard about the things people like Geoffrey Dhamer and the like did to teenage children, and I thought, “Yeah. I would do a blood eagle on that guy.” I understood historical figures a little more after that, and was a little less horrified by them.
Very interesting video Although TH-cam is really such a creatively and culturally dead platform that you had to blur a bunch of historical drawings and depictions that were the point of the subject of the video Imagine having to censor medical textbooks because of some of the operations and its depictions can be considered gruesome and gory
I'm sure you just slipped up, (especially knowing now that you MEMORIZE every script!) but you obviously meant Edward Longshanks, not Longshark for Edward I at around 13:00. Not denying though, Longshark would be a pretty badass name for a mediaeval king! ETA: Someone got there before me!
Curious that I recentely ran into two of these in fiction. The Poena Cullie was a mayor point in Steven Saylor´s novel Roman Blood and scaphism was the method of the week of an episode of Instinct I saw two nights ago.
Greetings, Noble One! I have two questions: first, do you believe "the wicker man" was actually used as a real execution method? I mean, building a huge humanlike structure out of wood and burning it was not a good idea: the structure would collapse before the completion of the execution and the prisoners could escape. Second, have you ever considered making a video on the Lusitanians, Viriathus and their resistance against Roman expansion? Thank you and keep these wings wide spread!!!
The one I was thinking about was the Persian turtle. I don't remember the actual name of it, but it's the one where you're left floating in between two rafts in a swamp with bugs eating you alive.
As a mid 40 Grandpa, I highly appreciate this Video. Not only the detail about every single Method, but as reminder that we don't talk about death enough in our current society. We as humans have an expiration date. And it never hurts to face that and ask ourselves if we're prepared for it. And the people around us as well. Thank you for all your great work and all my love to you, your team and your loved once.
Theres supposedly a story about the execution of the man who killed King Brian Boru, Brodir. The jist of his execution being: "Wolf the Quarrelsome cut open his belly, and led him round and round the trunk of a tree, and so wound all his entrails out of him,". Its in my head this method was common enough to have a name but i cant remember it (unless it was a one-off)
i remember there being a method similar to scaphism that was more like having a man pinned down with grates dividing up his body, and rats would be let loose at his feet, and the rats would eat their way through his body from the feet up, and insects were involved to. I think it was called the steps to heaven or something like that?
Humanity’s ingenuity in how to inflict sickening pain on each other is terrifying. One thing is to come up with a device or procedure to execute with unspeakable pain that alone is quite evil. Second; one have those who would decide that a person should be subjected to it. Thirdly; the crowds watching this with morbid curiosity and/or delight for the spectacle. I have to add that I am impressed that you actually produced “Bjørn” (Bjorn in English) the right way. With the sound of “Ø”. Very few do this.
@@simoncobian2816 crazy, but not unbelievable. We lived through covid just a few years ago. Imagine what those lunatics would do if they had more power.
You should check out Serbian Nobel price winner Ivo Andric and his novel Bridge over river Drina,where he describes Impaling in detail! Gypsy gets a piece of gold for every day victim survies !
I figured the Blood Eagle would be in this list. I was recently informed that this ritual persists within parts of the world, including here in the US as indicated in a police database that a friend was tasked with managing. To think, this ritual has existed in MY lifetime, in MY country..... I wish humanity as a whole was better than this.
I appreciate your perspective on the brazen bull. It has always struck me as unlikely. I also think it may be the reason for the myth that the inventor of the guillotine was killed by it
I first heard about scaphism some years ago on Dan Carlin's "Hardcore History", "King Of Kings" a trilogy. I was wondering what you thought of his work. On a various current historian tip, thoughts on Victor Davis Hanson ("The Second World Wars"; VDH!), Frank Dikötter ("The People's Trilogy"), Stephen Kotkin ("Stalin" trilogy), Bruce Gilley ("The Case for Colonialism"), Barbara Tuckman ("The Proud Tower")? What current historians of note do you find interesting? Have you considered doing deep dives into particular historical subjects or events, ancient to modern, the Bronze Age Collapse, the Siege of Malta, the Russian or Chinese Revolutions, the French one, for that matter, the unification of Italy, the Papacy? As a historian, perhaps you can do a video about those moderns in your profession that you revere, admire, find noteworthy. Maybe another mentioning particularly worthy books on various topics throughout History. Anyway, love your videos. I started watching during the Plague Years and have been a fan since.
'Lighting the Heaven Lamp' 點天燈as described by one 姜红梅？ The deaths of Mr. Elephant Hill and 袁崇煥， or even the eviction of the descendants of latter's head keeper?
I would like to make a reaction of the 3 episodes of Rome`s largest invasion, the Dacian Wars from the channel Historia Militum, would like to hear your opinion and if you would want to add something new, and to say how good are the descriptions in the 3 videos
The more outlandish execution methods were probably tried exactly once, and they just used the threat of doing it again to scare everyone else into line. They're just too impractical.
The story is of one Bull that has a bad reputation. It does sound like it was saved and used as a decorative piece so perhaps an archaeologist would find it if it exists.
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Any chance of ever introducing the "Deus Vult" Crusader t-shirt as a pocketed hoodie? I just went to the store and I love the Crusader design so much, but I really want it on a black hoodie, so I was so bummed out to see that it wasn't available as a hoodie at all. I feel silly even commenting about this, but I really want one.😂 If it ever is available I'll order one immediately!
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I think that to justly evaluate which execution is worse than another you'd need to experience them yourself 🤔
I watched a whole episode of Netflix's Cleopatra.
One of the worst execution methods must be being forced to listening to tiktok "historians"
Slava the Googledebunkers😂😂
That's why you have to be a Googledebunker!
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That's torture, not execution.
Is it execution if they make you sewer slide?
Forgot to include watching whole Netflix Cleopatra show
Not included because, sadly, it is not lethal and thus not an execution but a torture method. Which means you will survive with the damage done afterwards.
truly a fate worse than death.
C'mon man let's be humane, that's too evil
@@washlifeusa 🫣I'd rather crawl into a burning bronze Bull than watch that show
They aren’t white, pshh we can only include Whites & Asians. Derrrr
@@Mr.Marbleswhen my brother was in Afghanistan he was tortured relentlessly for years. When he was freed he did very well and was making progress on his ptsd. Then he watched that show it was so torturous that he immediately shot himself.
"the Metatron has spread his wings" takes on a different meaning after listening to someone talk about the blood eagle
Metatron: "These are the ten most horrible execution methods in history."
Comanche warrior: "Hold my fire water."
Mayan priest: "Amateurs."
Narcos are worse than prehispanic Aztec priests
Don’t you know? The powers that be want “the worst” to always encompass ethnically white considered individuals. 😂 Asians are the 2nd individuals you are allowed to demonize as they are also pale skin. Where you been??
We still have disgusting things going on today but 🤐🤐🤐 they don’t fit the narrative of “white man evil.” Didn’t you notice the very obvious underlying theme? That the Persians didn’t commit any atrocities & these are all secretly Whitemen??💀
Brazen bull is kinda fire, mate.
“What did you say, Punk?”
I think the Mayan priest wouldn't count because the intention was sacrifice, not just capital punishment, and they also cut their own man parts and bled all over. Blood from here, blood from there...They just seemed to have had LOTS of blood involved in their beliefs. Tbh I feel bad for the clean up crew working at a Mayan ritual temple! Thats A LOT of blood covered stairs to take care of! I think I would have quit by the 600th stair and just volunteered to be sacrificed 😂
This sort of thing is why the US Constitution has the Eighth Amendment, banning “cruel and unusual punishments”. These methods of theatrical cruelty was what the authors had in mind.
Indeed. It's why the US doesn't allow public executions (at least anymore), either.
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Is society doing better or worse as a result of these changes? Seems to me no one is afraid of punishment anymore.
Instead they just set up prisons outside of the US where they can do it.
That said even prisons in the US have a terrible report for things such as solitary confinement often keeping prisoners isolated for longer than the 14 days mandated by international human rights laws as the maximum duration
@@VespasianJudea There's a difference between no punishments at all and public executions.
@@crwydryny International human right "laws" don't really exist. Laws come from a governmental body and there is no international government body able to enforce their will on the US (AKA do something against the US's consent). I think you are referring to the UNODC rules, but the UN has no actual enforcement mechanism, nor does it even in reality have any authority over such matters (Neither would we want it too, considering how horrid the UN institution is). Saying It's violating "international law" is kinda just empty rhetoric.
Burning a person (dead or alive) in Egypt was to also ensure the person could not enter the afterlife (no body to mummify). This was reserved for rebels against the crown.
More a state power flex thing than a religious punishment.
Also dying in a foreign land was thought to be a fate worse than death,
I wonder if this isn’t the same derivation of beliefs that lead to Islam believing the very same. Minus the mummification.
@@VespasianJudea u can say the same for the other abrahamic religons.
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I don’t recall that being a thing in Christianity. They burned women as to not expose them naked to the crowd.
Human creativity reaches it peak when we are trying to kill each other. That certainly hasn’t changed through history.
Fine art does take on a rather unique direction when the human body is your canvas with a blade as your paint brush...
@@Clrcbst that’s incredibly macabre
Or, when we are aroused lol
Maybe watching this just before having dinner wasn't the best idea I ever had...
I'm eating a burger right now while watching it
Probably shouldn’t have chosen the boiled beef lung and tripe as your meal of choice l…..
I let TH-cam autoplay while eating lunch 🤷🏼♀️.
I'm eating red chicken curry right now, that stuff is delicious!
I dunno about you but this just makes me more hungry.
Ive seen this list in some form or another so many times but its incredibly fascinating having a deeper dive into the real history of each device, and not just the macabre bits. Marvelous job as always my friend!
Besides the pain that these execution methods must have caused, what I find disturbing is that people spent quite some time coming up with these detailed and sometimes lengthy methods!
Mortal Kombat playing in the background seems apropos.
(That's a beautiful cabinet BTW)
I remember a novel of Gary Jennings "The Jorneyer" about Marco Polo travelling to China, where the lingchi was very vividly described. Also recently read a visual novel about Medieval China, "The Hungry Lamb", where that method is also referenced several times.
I read about the Brazen Bull in a fantasy/magical realism novel. Was horrified of course. How much more horrifying to find out that it might have been a real thing.
There's a similar execution method in ancient China, with scalding hot brass pillars. Attrubuted to King Zhou of Shang and his concubine Daji
@@dariovirga7711 Daji? Wasn't she the one who, in legend, became the kitsune Tamamo no Mae?
@@erichinkle7347 yes, there was an historical Daji and the famous one from the Ming era novel Fengsgen Yanyi, where there are both Su Daji (a normal and actually kinda sweet girl) and the Spirit of the 1000 Years Old, 9 Tailed Fox who murders and takes her place to lead the Shang Dynasty to ruin, exacerbating Nü Wa's orders. In Japanese legends the Hakumenkinmou Kyuubinokitsune (White-faced, Golden Fur Nine-Tailed Fox) or Tamamo no Mae is said to be the very same vixen or, at least, her reborn. The creation of the scorching brass pillars is detailed in the romance
I was looking for inspiration for a real cruel tyrant in my D&D campaign! This was part of what I was looking for!
very interesting vid!
When I was the 2nd mate, we arrived in Jida in Saudi Arabia. It was Friday and we knew that public executions were taking place on that day. I gathered a few people with me to watch the spectacle, but we were never allowed into the city because we were not Muslims. An interesting fact is that even to check the cargo marks on the stern and on the bow, I was forced to walk along a strictly laid out red carpet in front of me, which I should not have left since I am a Christian.
Funny that Muslims wherever they go in the world, cry victims and claim to be oppressed. Meanwhile on Islamic countries, they treat non-Muslims like dirt on boots.
Hypocrisy is Islam.
I didn’t even bother to get off when we ported in Jeddah. Too much paperwork to not even be allowed anywhere. Plus we only had a short port stay anyways.
What is wrong with my brain? Hearing about a little bit of blood, panic. Hearing about torture and death, calm.
I suppose it may have something to do with how relatable the imagery is. I don't know about you, but many people had to deal with very unpleasant situations with some blood, but most don't deal with torture and violent death.
It was Edward Long _shanks,_ not 'sharks'.
'Longshanks' was an appellation which spoke of his height, as he was supposedly far taller than his contemporaries.
Yea but "Long Sharks" is funnier.
He had a shoal of Greenland sharks patrolling his moat, hence Longsharks !!
Technically, the nickname Long shanks means long legs. Shanks being a term for legs. However, Edward did get the nickname for being extremely tall for his period.
@@rebeccaorman1823and there I thought it was refering to his third leg as well🤣
@@ravnjokr very funny. It referred to the fact Edward was 6 feet 2 inches tall at a time when the average hight for men was just over 5 feet.
I had a book on Canute and Vikings in which the Blood Eagle was mentioned and it was in honour of the King of the Gods Odin, but it was in the book I had it was said that Alfred the Great would have been the person for it to happen to
‘Breaking upon the Wheel’ or ‘Wheelbraiding’ is a nasty form of execution you should look into. Used primarily by the Dutch and Flemish people around the time of the burgeoning spice trade (think Dutch East Indies). I would recommend researching the voyage of the Dutch East India vessel ‘Batavia’ that left Holland in 1629. The whole voyage was insane from start to shipwreck and the punishment inflicted on the perpetrators of this violent murderous rampage after the shipwreck is particularly brutal. A story so unbelievable it would make a great movie. I can’t remember the name of the author but the book Batavia’s Graveyard details the whole affair and aftermath.
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That boat one....how did someone think up of that shit?!?!?!
99% it's bullshit, because it's not medically plausible.
Also, Ctesias had a reputation for writing bullshit, like about a race of people in India with just one leg and foot so big that they held up as a parasol...
To quote (sort of) Hunter x Hunter, never underestimate the wickedness of mankind
they were floating around ideas
"Well you see, the other day i left this uneaten sandwich out in the sun and..."
no smartphones then
History was my favorite subject in school, and I still love learning more about it. So, keep these videos coming. Please.
That giant fire golem in Shadow of the Erdtree looks like the description of the Gaelic simulacra. The arms and legs are made of burnt people
The quote "For in general, those who plan an evil thing aimed at others are usually snared in their own devices" is quite apt. Apparently the first person in the American colonies to be sentenced to the stocks was the man who built the stocks. He was sentenced for the crime of making them too poor in quality.
The man who invented the guillotine was guillotined .(I think)
I hope there is also the very horrific one in this video, where a person would be put in a hollow tree, made to not be able to get out of it, and then stuffed with milk and honey. The insects will do the rest. And they would keep coming back to stuff and smear them with milk and honey to prolong their suffering.
Truly horrific.
He has the boat version in the video. Where is the tree version mentioned?
@@kaltaron1284 Yeah, that's the one. I guess when you don't have boats you resort to slightly different versions. I forgot where I heard / read that though, unfortunately.
@@Leftyotism Might have been one of dankula's videos IIRC.
The Brazen Bull lives rent free in my nightmares tbh. Up there with the Iron Maiden
this reminds of visiting Medieval Times as a kid and the walk up to the show was a tour through all the crazy torture devices of the times : D
This is the training video they show to new Night lords chaos space marines.
Good thing I play Grey Knights.
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The idea that the screams of the victim would be modified is not correct.
instead the inventer wanted to create an instrument that would represent the suffering of the victim, even long after the victim would have fallen unconscious or died.
to do this you simply need a flute or similar instrument that would be blown with the steam created from the water content of the victim.
imagine a whistling kettle you place a steak in.
Imagine watching Acolyte in 0.5 speed ... now bulll or this? Choose
You cruel bastard!^^
The Acolyte is so boring it might put be to sleep.
10:08 I love imagining that Metatron uses obscure software to input or typeset these texts.
Im sure Vlad the Impaler had some pretty gnarly execution methods we dont even know about.
You would be correct
what I find even more horrific than the methods is how villy nilly they were used. If they were reserved for regicide or mass murder it would be one thing, but.. divulging the contents of a book, seriously?
They took religion a bit more serious than most people nowadays.
"knowledge is power"
to divulge the secrets of the gods to the profane has ever been a crime.
@@kaltaron1284 Religion had always been taken way too seriously by their zealots
Physical pain isn't the only pain
"Divulging the contents of a book", can mean treason, if the book is just secret enough.
Meanwhile in China, entire families have been executed because one of them allowed someone else to misspell words.
Let me elaborate: The "misspeller" was a student, the wrong words looked like the name of the Qing emperor "missing the head stroke", the person who allowed the student to write them that way was a high court mandarin grading the final exam of that student as "passed" (and the person who reported that to His thin-skinned Majesty was for sure an intrigant asshole who set the entire thing up). But nevertheless: a high court member who failed to follow the Imperial name taboo, was killed _with his entire extended family_ for High Treason, and students from that particular province were not admitted to exams for two years.
And that was just ONE example how people were killed for much less.
There were a few British officers who pentrated (in disguise) various places in central asia during 'The Great Game' between Russia and the UK.
Most were discovered and executed. One of those travellers described a method of execution which I have always thought the most terrible (in Bukhara I think).
It was a large locked store room filled with stacks of coffin shaped boxes. They had an opening like a letterbox near the top of each box.
Each day a guard would enter and offer a skin of water and some food at the letterbox openings.
When this offering was no longer accepted, it was assumed that the offender inside had died and another 'coffin' could be placed on top of that particular stack.
Other central asian sultanates had deep pits which contained both living and dead prisoners in which people were more or less eaten alive by insects. They were sometimes removed from these for beheading, as an act of mercy.
The Sultan of Delhi was also rather inventive in the matter of gruesome executions.
In native American cultures there were also Many horrible versions of death by torture, from Canada to the Tierra Del Fuego.
Longshanks not longshark.... but longshark sounds cooler though so fair play . Excellent channel.and great orator
Very interesting. I heard about the bag and beasts thrown in the river in The Untouchable movie (Kostner, De Niro). But it was for corruption.
I love his adoption of the word muppets
My number 1 will always be scaphism. The fact that the whole idea is to keep the victim alive as long as possible while insects, magots and infections slowly eat away at them.
Imagine being blind, sun burnt and covered in insect bites while magots crawl under your skin, and into orifaces eating you from the inside, your fingers becoming necrotic as nerves and blood vessels are destroyed and your flesh rotting and falling off while you're pinned unable to move. All the while your captors are doing everything possible to keep you alive for as long as possible... Now imagine it with today's medical technology.
I actually discussed this is a D&D group pointing out how D&D healing spells could essentially make this last for as long as the torturer desires... Ok now I've given everyone nightmares sleep well 😊
@@HedonisticPuritan-mp6xvso true 😂😂😂
As I told my brother when he got married "should have commented murder it's a shorter sentence"
I’ve Seen Worse
Im so glad I live in a place and time where this doesn't happen
13:00 Edward I Longshark known for his long shark like legs 😂😂
Did he have frickin' laser beams on his legs?
Longshanks, for he had long limbs! Not longshark!
Great vid tho!
There is archaeological evidence for crucification in the form of wrist bones; this was found at Mendes, Egypt, and dates to the Ptolemaic period.
8:18 crying right now at the pronunciation you’ve had to take on of certain things, to be able to say a “naughty” word without being clocked by the ai bots.
(deemed naughty only by the TH-cam Overlords)
I have a morbid fascination with these sort of ways of cruelty we humans have invented in order to cause maximum pain and humiliation on each other. And every time, along with the feeling of "wow, that is pretty crazy" is a deep bitterness and hatred for those people who cause these torments to be inflicted.
4:47 interesting inclusion of the Icon of Hieromartyr Antipas, Bishop of Pergamum!
It is a fascinating depiction.
Phalaris killing Perilaüs with his own device, as a ”Thank you.”, really reminds me of Ivan IV / Ivan Groznyj / Ivan the Terrible (which, I think, is a *_Terrible_* (pun intended) name; when, at least, in Modern English, ”Terrifying” or ”Imposing” would be better translations of «Грозный» / ”Groznyj”) piercing the eyes of the Italian architect, who designed Saint Basil’s Cathedral; so that he could never create anything, as beautiful, as Saint Basil’s Cathedral, ever again. 😱😨😰
Ivan Groznyj is such a fascinating historical figure. I wonder if his infamous temperament could have been due to bipolar disorder or some other now classified mental illness.
@@lonelystrategos Yes, he is. That’s, actually, very plausible, and a very interesting possibility; given that he did have short, spontaneous, erratic, bursty periods, and then long periods of prayer, repentance, and depression, too. This certainly sounds like bipolar personality disorder, or, depending on the severity of the episodes, borderline personality disorder.
This was a great video!! Informative and interesting!!
15:59 Oh, so that's where Oda got that from.
It looks kinda harmless in one piece because oden was too tough
Not surprised to see Blood Eagle on the list
Kinda thought they were raised up into the air after the deed was done, symbolizing a flying eagle.
I guess there were no actual mentions of it. Thought i heard it somewhere
Thanks to this video (min 16:00 more or less) I learnt that the inspiration of Kozuki Oden from One Piece is Ishikawa Goemon
Thanks!
Thanks for the new video ! 😊
You gotta love all the references to sources. I am sick & tiered of all the YT or TikTok “historians” that talk bs without knowing anything about the subject.
So yeah awesome job Metatron❤
Thinking about how my coworker said he felt like someone gave him a Blood Eagle. He’s a but younger than me so I thought it was some new schoolyard prank, kinda like Purple Nurples or Indian Burns.
No, he legit meant the execution method. I still laugh at the thought that someone’s elementary school bully trying to execute someone for lunch money. 😂
1:00 I'll wait to see if you mention the Blood Angel, the Iron Maiden, and the Judas Cradle.
I think you’ll get better traction with the old thumbnail. I know TH-cam likes the soy face thumbnail, but the other one gives you an idea of what will be covered. You see a strange device onscreen and are morbidly curious to its function.
Anyway, keep up the good work man. Been watching a lot of your stuff lately.
On a totally different note, did anyone else see the resemblance between Juvenal and Mr Bean??? 😂
Love your videos, thank you... 🎉🎉🎉
To my modern mind (with all the problems associated) it seems so odd that ancient people were happy to use barbaric methods to cause fear, but then also resort to propaganda about how the methods their enemies use are cruel and barbaric.
I often wonder if it was actually an attempt by tge ruler to shift the overton window so they could use crueler than normal punishments, as long as they stop short of what people "know" the enemy uses.
12:59 🤔Did Metatron just call Edward "Longshanks" Edward "Loan Shark????" 😆
It's crazy what people are willing to do to each other. I would say it is true that most people are just apes in clothes. The amount of individuals unable to even graps the concept that "it can happen to me as well" is astonishing.
It used to shock me.
Then I heard about the things people like Geoffrey Dhamer and the like did to teenage children, and I thought,
“Yeah. I would do a blood eagle on that guy.”
I understood historical figures a little more after that, and was a little less horrified by them.
"Muppets up there" made me laugh 😂😂😂😂
Very interesting video
Although TH-cam is really such a creatively and culturally dead platform that you had to blur a bunch of historical drawings and depictions that were the point of the subject of the video
Imagine having to censor medical textbooks because of some of the operations and its depictions can be considered gruesome and gory
22:03 The background music he chooses to play as he speaks of such a torture weird me out XD
Well researched and informative and I learned a lot about a difficult subject.
You know, sometimes I get sick of the smut on the interwebs and it's nice to watch a good ol, apolitical and uplifting youtube motion picture. Nice
I'm sure you just slipped up, (especially knowing now that you MEMORIZE every script!) but you obviously meant Edward Longshanks, not Longshark for Edward I at around 13:00. Not denying though, Longshark would be a pretty badass name for a mediaeval king!
ETA: Someone got there before me!
Are you ever going to talk about in full detail the book of Enoc? I think there was a name there “Metatron”
I think it was one of the the angels or archangels mentioned in it. (And other Apocrypha and Jewish folklore, I believe )
I've been to Agrigento, luckily I didn't come into contact with the bull. Fantastic city, especially the Valle dei Templi or Valley of the Temples.
Curious that I recentely ran into two of these in fiction.
The Poena Cullie was a mayor point in Steven Saylor´s novel Roman Blood and scaphism was the method of the week of an episode of Instinct I saw two nights ago.
Greetings, Noble One! I have two questions: first, do you believe "the wicker man" was actually used as a real execution method? I mean, building a huge humanlike structure out of wood and burning it was not a good idea: the structure would collapse before the completion of the execution and the prisoners could escape. Second, have you ever considered making a video on the Lusitanians, Viriathus and their resistance against Roman expansion? Thank you and keep these wings wide spread!!!
The one I was thinking about was the Persian turtle. I don't remember the actual name of it, but it's the one where you're left floating in between two rafts in a swamp with bugs eating you alive.
Scaphism
@@Mr-melon54 that's the one
As a mid 40 Grandpa, I highly appreciate this Video. Not only the detail about every single Method, but as reminder that we don't talk about death enough in our current society. We as humans have an expiration date. And it never hurts to face that and ask ourselves if we're prepared for it. And the people around us as well. Thank you for all your great work and all my love to you, your team and your loved once.
Theres supposedly a story about the execution of the man who killed King Brian Boru, Brodir. The jist of his execution being: "Wolf the Quarrelsome cut open his belly, and led him round and round the trunk of a tree, and so wound all his entrails out of him,". Its in my head this method was common enough to have a name but i cant remember it (unless it was a one-off)
i remember there being a method similar to scaphism that was more like having a man pinned down with grates dividing up his body, and rats would be let loose at his feet, and the rats would eat their way through his body from the feet up, and insects were involved to. I think it was called the steps to heaven or something like that?
A perfect video to watch after just having had a conflict with a client!
It is said that after the execution, the sky darkened and a deep voice was heard in the sky saying "Fatality!".
Humanity’s ingenuity in how to inflict sickening pain on each other is terrifying. One thing is to come up with a device or procedure to execute with unspeakable pain that alone is quite evil. Second; one have those who would decide that a person should be subjected to it. Thirdly; the crowds watching this with morbid curiosity and/or delight for the spectacle.
I have to add that I am impressed that you actually produced “Bjørn” (Bjorn in English) the right way. With the sound of “Ø”. Very few do this.
Keep up the great videos !!
It’s crazy how people can inflict such pain on others
@@simoncobian2816 crazy, but not unbelievable. We lived through covid just a few years ago. Imagine what those lunatics would do if they had more power.
Or the pain people inflict on themselves when we cater to their delusions.
You should check out Serbian Nobel price winner Ivo Andric and his novel Bridge over river Drina,where he describes
Impaling in detail! Gypsy gets a piece of gold for every day victim survies !
I figured the Blood Eagle would be in this list. I was recently informed that this ritual persists within parts of the world, including here in the US as indicated in a police database that a friend was tasked with managing. To think, this ritual has existed in MY lifetime, in MY country..... I wish humanity as a whole was better than this.
Source?
Me after reading the video title: "It's going to be the brazen bull isn't it?"
That last one goes hard af, rip Marcantonio Bragadin.
Great video as always, just let me be a little pedantic, Heim in the nordic languages, old and new, isn't pronounced as high+m, but as in Hailey-ley+m
Brazen bull was in manga called Usogui. It was a part of gambling game that had to do with counting seconds as I recall.
Weeb
I appreciate your perspective on the brazen bull. It has always struck me as unlikely. I also think it may be the reason for the myth that the inventor of the guillotine was killed by it
Click bait, but get yo bag. You've earned it
You forgot the mostest horrible “Death by a thousand ferret bites”.
Boiling alive is scary, being alive and living with the damage for the rest of your life is horrifying.
13:00 I think it was Longshanks and not Longshark
I think that the Catherine's wheel also deserves a mention. I get shivers thinking about that.
This is my favorite capital punishment video since Dan Carlin's Painfortainment
I first heard about scaphism some years ago on Dan Carlin's "Hardcore History", "King Of Kings" a trilogy. I was wondering what you thought of his work. On a various current historian tip, thoughts on Victor Davis Hanson ("The Second World Wars"; VDH!), Frank Dikötter ("The People's Trilogy"), Stephen Kotkin ("Stalin" trilogy), Bruce Gilley ("The Case for Colonialism"), Barbara Tuckman ("The Proud Tower")? What current historians of note do you find interesting? Have you considered doing deep dives into particular historical subjects or events, ancient to modern, the Bronze Age Collapse, the Siege of Malta, the Russian or Chinese Revolutions, the French one, for that matter, the unification of Italy, the Papacy? As a historian, perhaps you can do a video about those moderns in your profession that you revere, admire, find noteworthy. Maybe another mentioning particularly worthy books on various topics throughout History. Anyway, love your videos. I started watching during the Plague Years and have been a fan since.
'Lighting the Heaven Lamp' 點天燈as described by one 姜红梅？
The deaths of Mr. Elephant Hill and 袁崇煥，
or even the eviction of the descendants of latter's head keeper?
I am not surprised to see the blood eagle, scaphism, flaying and the stake in this video.
I would say the "Blood Eagle" but I dont think there are any clear historical records of it actually having been used.
I would like to make a reaction of the 3 episodes of Rome`s largest invasion, the Dacian Wars from the channel Historia Militum, would like to hear your opinion and if you would want to add something new, and to say how good are the descriptions in the 3 videos
The Vikings series showed Bjorn doing the blood-eagle execution to King Aela while Ivar was standing there just watching the process
The more outlandish execution methods were probably tried exactly once, and they just used the threat of doing it again to scare everyone else into line. They're just too impractical.
The story is of one Bull that has a bad reputation. It does sound like it was saved and used as a decorative piece so perhaps an archaeologist would find it if it exists.