Worst ways to die in history (part 6)
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"they took care"... 68 broken bones later
Gilderoy Lockhart enters the room 🪄
@@TheMidoriDreamsbreaks even more bones
THANKS MAN 😮😂😮😂😅😂😂🎉🎉🎉
took care to keep them alive, yes. There are worse things than death.
@@rockz9783 what bones?
"The second part is where things get a bit twisted" yeah bro was chilling during the first part
💀
twisted like a pretzel
Literally twisted
This mediaeval punishment is still used in Palestine if you’re gay lol.
He meant they would be twisted around the wheel, literally. T'was a good joke indeed.
"i was born in the wrong generation"
Past generation:
Dont commit murder or be a traitor and youre safe
@@medievalfarmerstudio4762 it literally says in this video that it was also a punishment for robbery "so you stole food for your starving family welp enjoy a excruciating death"
was probably a very common occurrence and I get that stealing food back then could cause another to starve but the robber definitely didn't deserve all that for the crime of not wanting to starve
I rather be born 2 generations from now
@@medievalfarmerstudio4762your dumbass never heard of a false conviction
That doesn’t mean they want to be born in the medieval ages lmao
"For your crime of burning down 12 villages, three towns, 32 hamlets, and the slaughter of at least 72,000 and rape of women and children alike, you are sentenced to execution by the Breaking Wheel!"
...
"By the divine intervention of God, you have been pardoned of all your crimes! What will you do now with your newfound freedom?"
I mean what is he gonna do he's fked beyond repair
@@kingming9712 Realistically speaking, whoever is supposed to patch him up will _accidentally_ get him killed.
😂😂😂😂😂
well he's permanently paralyzed, what's the worst thing he could do now?
"Hehe!"
I bet that wheely hurt
😂
Never a truer word anyone spoke
Best comment 😂
Underrated comment😂😂
this hit me like a sack of wet mice
There was a german serial killer who survived for 9 DAYS on the wheel in the 1500s. Brutal.
Give me names pls very interesting
fr i want to know too
@@Pike737Christman Genipperteinga
I am not sure but last or first hit was on neck and than all limbs ( depends if you were broken from lower or from upper ) than if you survive you would be put to that wheel …
They kept him alive on purpose as long as they could . They didn't just leave him, they got him super drunk every single day to help prolong him. Probably for maximum effect of torture
Someone: Makes the wheel
Europe: Let's use this to torture people!!
I'm disappointed the wheels function wasn't put to use at all. I was thinking water wheel, carriage. You know a wheel that rolled.
That's just Europe saying phuc this invention.
It’s always them💀😂
@@DEADGrey-fm8js ikr - Europeans are always evil and no one else ever is 💀 😂
@@DEADGrey-fm8jsyeah its allways us
Why is it always us doing the tortureing
“Video games make people violent!”
Humanity before they even existed:
LocalOnionRingEnjoyer sold me an unregistered firearm behind taco bell
@@what_4836s can confirm this is true
He sold me ten nukes in a Walmart bathroom
He sold me a hamburger laced with crack
@@gemstonepheonix9522 this is true
The moment I heard "first part" my smile disappeared
Why tf were you smiling at that point
Why were you smiling to begin with 💀
Yeah tf were u smiling for
@@AndeLikeTheMint because hes sentenced to the wheel
You weird
“The second part is where things get a bit twisted.”
Bro. We already hit that target.
You missed the pun.
@@TheFakeyCakeMaker Oops.
Twisty braidy lol
You realize the medical of that time was absolutely atrocious and at best you’ll be able to sit up but not without agonizing pain.
It's pretty rare knowledge. You're probably the only one here that knows that.
Big wheel is being a smart ass about it but there's a TON of people up top that seem to have missed that memo and are debating recidivism of criminals pardoned by God.
Because they hare God and must find a way to blame him but I digress. Have a good day and godspeed.
not as bad as we think, a lot of that comes from victorian misinformation. Medieval people documented shit like needle chest decompressions which we do today, surgery to remove cataracts, etc. the low level normal physicians for peasants and shit did what was simple and worked for centuries, the high level 'masters' were the scary ones, because they were actively experimenting to see what new shit did or didnt work. which is to say, making shit up as they went.
The lucky ones died
Fun fact: In German, we even have a phrase that refers to this torture method: "Ich bin gerädert." (literally "I am wheeled") You typically say this after a long day of physical exhaustion, feeling every muscle and bone in your body.
In the Netherlands we have the same phrase for the same : "Ik ben geradbraakt".
The first one to receive this punishment was probably the wheel's inventor.
Made me think of Robespierre
@@CarbonatedCondensation I think he was referring to the inventor of the bronze bull.
@@lepperkin or ludwig the 16th, since he optimized the blade of the guilliotine
@@lepperkinagree with you.
@@Schoko-ii6lythis guy too.
My toxic trait is thinking I could survive all this and somehow still be able to even walk💀
Would you want to?
@@evilsharkey8954 could you possibly elaborate on that? Just in case it’s what I think it is, then no, of course not. Who would even want to?
@@Leethaltimee Getting “medical treatment” for that many broken bones in the days before antibiotics and painkillers.
The luckiest people on the wheel would die of fat embolisms from the trauma of bones breaking.
@@evilsharkey8954 woahh, you didn’t need to write a middle school informative essay on this, all I said was that this is easily a toxic trait of mine, a thing that *everyone* has. You didn’t need to come in here say the facts when obviously this shit is some of the most painful stuff probably for anyone, and that no, I don’t really think much people could ever survive this.
@@Leethaltimee Dude, I wrote two sentences.
Well i think that would wheelie break your spirit
Are you fo wheel? 🤣🤣
This is wheelie inappropriate humour!
Humans are so cruel
I can think of plenty of people that would dandy braided on a wheel
*whites
True I think removal of freedoom is punishment enough
We as a species have always been cruel to each other since the beginning of time and always will be😅
We humans can be extremely violent and destructive creatures😅 that’s why combat sports have always been a thing 🥊👊🏾🤕
In today’s society you got the UFC, in this specific era you knights changing at each other on horseback with big ass wooden poles that almost guaranteed internal bleeding if you were hit by one😅 and in the ancient era, you had gladiators swinging swords and axes at each other’s faces ⚔️🪓
Long story short, we as a species have seriously dialed down our thirst for blood 🩸 compared to our ancestors😅
Bruh the medical treatment would be just as bad as the wheel itself
The fly agaric ointment could work wonders! And if that didn't help, you could always do bloodletting or apply leeches.
Those people are real psychopaths
They're real jerks
I like these "interventions" and "pardoning" rules. I remember one method used to find witches, which consisted in tying woman to a boulder and throwing her in water. If she could swim out, this was considered as a symbol of her witch powers (which led to her death), but if she drowned, she was pardoned to be mistaken for a witch. Quite effective, I say...
Very few that drowned didn't deserve it. The practice was reserved for people who ritualisticaly sacrificed children and played with animal guts and drew arcane and profane symbols all over everything.
Only the truly evil or deranged drowned. Theres been an attempt by various authorities to twist this truth into the idea that random women and girls were drowned for no reason. Absolute nonsense.
@@allistertheeldritchmemegod3537See, that would make sense only if on every single occasion the women put on trial for witchcraft were actually practicing witchcraft. And while the Church believed such people did exist, they honestly didn't really think it necessary to set up entire witch trials for one or 2 people doing that kind of stuff.
It were the common people on the other hand who were terrified of witchcraft, in part due to pagan influences that shaped part of the folklore. And those were the people who brought women to the church while accusing her of witchcraft. As you might be aware, if a crowd of people says something, there is kinda little one can do to make them change their minds, so even in cases where it would be dubious at best to think of the accused as a witch, she would still be subjected to the drowning punishment described above, regardless of whether she could be called one.
So that's why it's always good to assume that at the very least the majority of convicted 'witches' were in fact only mildly eccentric citizens.
@@allistertheeldritchmemegod3537 Yeah, I'm going to call BS. Cite your sources.
@@allistertheeldritchmemegod3537
You sound like a religious nutjob....
And I'm probably right in my assessment of you.
@@christiaanvandenakker901his source is his misogyny
I could think of a few crimes where this should be allowed as a form of punishment.
Absolutely Berserk!
Was looking for this comment.
I didn‘t think that is was a real punishment when I first read the Manga
based reference
This just goes to show how every single invention will eventually be repurposed to hurt someone
Like those oven cinnamon buns you can throw at people.
Like the Dodge Charger
I can’t help admiring the creativity to the point of weaving the person into the spokes. Not tying them on, but actually weaving them in. Love it!
You need help.
@@DaneOrschlovskyprobably just some edgy 12yo
Broooo what do you mean LOVE IT💀
I mean I agree shame we don't have such creativity today
Woah bro you’re so edgy
I didn't expect to be terrified for 1 minute💀
To be fair if you survived all of that it was definitely divine intervention
Im just saying, there was no mass shooters back when they used these things.
Who do you think was dropping the wheel?
There wasn't any guns either
No shit Sherlock, there were no guns at this time
But there were still killers, rapiists, etc, so what's ur point ?
r/whoosh@@OcarinaOfTime
@@josebravo5125 They may have been pretty crude but guns have been around for like 700 years
Fun fact ! There's a french children song called "Jean-Petit qui danse" inspired by this form of torture, where you sing "Jean-Petit is dancing, Jean the dancer Jean-Petit" then you add a part of the body the children are supposed to clap on, such as "With his hands, hands hands", as a reference to the parts of his body that were broken during the process (iirc, Jean-Petit one one of the leader of the Révolte des Croquants movement, happening around the midle of the XVII century, that was caughted and died because of the breaking wheel)
*The breaking wheel in history:* 😬
*The breaking wheel in the fnaf books:* 💀
Fr, that story was brutal as hell! Very well done tho, one of my favorites
This hurts just hearing about it
This is truly a Five Nights at Freddy's moment
These videos are interesting but they always make me feel so sick
In a time when you could die from infection due to a cut. I absolutely believe a single person survived this, divine intervention and healing.
imagine you were starving to death, so your only choice was to rob people and then they do this to you 💀
Than Get a job …. They cut hands of thieves … this was for marauders and outlaws … but it was diferent if you was put to death from uper to lower than first blow was on neck and than limbs and after that you was put into that wheel. Or you was from lower to upper and than blow on neck was last ( more brutal cuz blow on neck was mostly mortal )
@@Jan.jan2024 Did- did you watch the video? He also mentioned robbers.
@@Jan.jan2024my brother do you have even basic knowledge how life was in medieval times?
@@Jan.jan2024 Does that count if you have cancer?
The most gruesome FNAF story is actually called "The breaking wheel"!
Yes! I was looking in the comments for someone who new the story! That story was BRUTAL! Very well done tho!
I have found my people
"You have been sentenced to the Breaking Wheel for murdering 23 people!"
*falls out from the wheel*
"Oh! It must've been a sign from God, those 23 people mustve died mysteriously, You have been pardoned!"
Him putting the bandage on his legs after having broken dones killed me😂😂
Martyr Logarius special treatment for vilebloods
Oh so that’s why there is a wheel as a weapon in Bloodborne
-Video games make people violent.
-Meanwhile people before video games:
Anyone remember the name of the torture wheel that Quasimodo was almost killed on in the beginning of hunchback of Notre Dame? I thought that’s what was going to be talked about in the video but I was wrong 😂
"Break a leg" they said
Could be worse
-Torture inventor
That's cruxifiction but with more steps
Dang, that must hurt.
"and that is how Logarius Wheel was invented"
Well, it's no Brazen bull but I suppose it will do.
The brazen bull was nothing compared to some of the Medieval and Early Modern European tortures. Even some of the non-lethal ones were pretty effed up, like having red hot brad awls shoved under your fingernails.
Another version of this has the victim simply tied to the wheel. The wheel was then released at the top of a steep and rough hill.
Wheel gets invented
Ancient Europeans: that gives me an idea
That they had a rule for if you survived means some people did?
Not sure looked into it for 30 seconds found some dude survived awake for 9 days got sad and gave up
@@bradlybellant3975must’ve been hungry n shit
@@bradlybellant3975n in pain
just so you know, this is medical treatment back in the *15th century* , not modern medicine, so just imagine
To be fair at least they could set your dislocated and broken bones back into place. Which would cover most of the bases
@@stickmaster400 *laughs in Plague
@@explosivegreenNot sure what lack of knowledge about germs has to do with setting someone’s bones back into place.
@@Dave-bd2eoSetting shattered bones and compound fractures, especially the small bones of the hands and feet, is a different animal than straightening the limb and splinting it.
This is the kind of video that I would see on 3 a.m and not be able to sleep for some time
The more I learn about history, I feel like empathy is a very recent phenomenon.
I though they would put there legs into the wheel and spin it.
This is confusing. Ive seen that the victim was tied to a wheel and their bones broken by a club or mallet; or the bones were broken by the wheel. Which is it?
I hope you know that there are multiple ways of doing something? They're similar but not the same 🤦🏻♀️ idk what's so confusing about that.
Different places had different techniques.
Both, and then some more
What I don't understand is why it has to be a wheel. There's nothing that you couldn't do here with a heavy fence or gate
@@bigcheeses I suspect the practice evolved from seeing how destroyed people got when they were run over by wagons, so they tried to emulate that as a form of torture. Being a wheel gives them spokes to thread the broken limbs through.
Great amusement for witnesses.
So that's why Alfred carries a wheel as a weapon in Bloodborne lol
What crime gets THIS as a punishment? 😐
Stealing a carriage belonging to a high official?
Says in the video.
Punishment for: murderers, traitors, and robbers
@@mrdeathbyzombies3704 thanks - I didn't hear that bit - old age 😂
tax evasion
For people who can't see the error in their ways and don't want to listen to the authorities, I think this is called for.
if this isn't bait (I seriously hope you are baiting for attention) then I advise you to seek some level of therapy. mutilation of life is disgusting and does nothing to further society.
@@ethans-d6105what do you mean mutilation doesn't further society, it helps with the food supply.
@@Sir.Fithers "a modest proposal" lol
Sure, seems okay in practice until you realize the system used to convict and sentence people to this was based on some guy being like “yeah maybe he did it, string him up.”
@@Sir.Fithers😂
'I felt like i got wheeled.' in German: 'Ich fühl mich wie gerädert.' you say that when you didn't sleep last night and you are very tired
Imagine dying to a circle with handle bars
We need to bring this back. Europe is far too soft.
Yeah!
Let’s bring it back 😂(jk)
unless..
@@kritzkrieg14 I mean we could definitely stop a lot of crime 🤭
@@AlwaysXAlex State sponsored crime, to stop crime. The UN could use acts of terror to stop the Russian's attacking the Ukraine. Vladimir Putin gets the wheel!
No way, Logarius' wheel is real
I like how there’s the optimism of divine intervention 😊
Yooooo 😂
I heard that the breaking wheel was used in a different way; ones limbs would be tied to a point not on the wheel, and the other limbs tied to the wheel, and the wheel would be pulled / turned away in the opposite direction from the fassening point (where ones legs would be), causing your whole body to be stretched in the process. You would be in excruciating pain as it slowly seperated your joints in your arms and legs.
Instead of "you were in for a really bad time" I heard if you were really annoying and I was like that's a harsh punishment for being annoying
RIP To All Those Who Died As A Result Of This 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️
"I was born in the wrong generation" mfs been real quiet lately
Puts a whole new meaning to 'being tired'
"No hard feelings, we are frieeends, arent we ?"(I read it with Australian accent for some reason)
That was certainly worth knowing, thank you. Brightened up my evening mate!
And that's where the expression "i'm tired" comes from.
It’s wild how they still chose to be “careful” not to let the victim die while breaking his/her bones 😭😭😭
I somehow felt the pain through my skin💀
Fun fact: in Germany people sometimes say “Ich fühle mich wie gerädert” when they are exhausted wich comes from this torture method. It literally translates to “I feel like I have been wheeled”
We need to bring this back
I have never heard breaking on the wheel being done this way. I always heard it being done where your limbs are tied to the spokes, they spin you around, and they just hit you to break your limbs.
I find it funny that I learned this type of torture from Fazbear Frights 💀
I have always agreed with the thought that, if you survive a death sentence then you can go free.
And this is why the US constitution mentions "cruel and unusual punishment".
It's the "you likely wouldn't be running any marathons anytime soon."😭😂
I thought that the bamboo punishment method was pretty grim
This is not "a way to die". This is a torture device.
David Coulthards career really took a nosedive
we need to bring this back
Back when intrusive thoughts were usually acted upon.
I imagine it was frustrating to use that giant wheel to hobble the prisoner rather than a sledgehammer or something
Why did we get rid of this 😂
Ain’t nobody gonna be murdering if this is the punishment 😂😂
There are times when I wish this kind of contraption would still be used.
That sounds wheely painful.
“That wasn’t too bad! - “spoke” to soon!!”
In German we still have a verb "jemanden rädern" basically wheeling someone, but now it means more like to pester someone
I think that’s also where the word „tired“ comes from.
2024: getting grounded is the worthy thing ever!
People before 1900: *it might be crazy what I’m bout to say*
They were just keepin' it wheel.
"They'll give you medical treatment." Good lord, I'd rather stay up in the wheel
So basically “just dont die bro”
Falls from the wheel: I'm just so spoked to be here.
Girl?!?!?!! Did anybody ever survive that tf