As a child in London I remember our Victorian home being renovated. Inside one of the chimneys a box was discovered containing a dead bird and various other items like small bottles sealed with wax and little packages tired with cord. Our builder said he'd seen lots of these and they were known as builder's sacrifices. Apparently children's shoes were often included too. He also explained about witch's bottles buried under the floors etc and apotropaic markings on the north facing roof beams of many houses to protect from evil. They were usually 7 vertical lines denoting the 7 sacraments and/or the Chi Rho sign for Christ. Many of these marks were done in the 17th and 18th centuries, long after the Protestant Reformation had reduced the number of sacraments to two. I find it fascinating how ancient traditions are adapted and evolved to be used even in relatively modern times
Y'know what is the BEST butchering BY FAR...? Effortlessly :D it is so not effortless for him... He always says efforletlessly for what ever fucking reason xD??
"Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs!" - British Governor, Charles Napier
@@felidaebi6239 Charles Napier's dates are 1782-1853. The last person to be burned for witchcraft in England was in 1727. The Witchcraft Act 1735 ended prosecutions for alleged witchcraft in England. So to be fair to the then British Governor, he wasn't wrong.
I love how Simon has different personas for each channel he hosts. I found him on the today I found out channel but stayed a subscriber for the casual criminalist and while watching this I halfway expected him to talk about how hard the name pronunciations were. Thank you for your hard work and dedication Simon. You’re awesome!
It's so jarring. I watched this channel first, and loved it, but then watched his others, realised he doesn't actually talk the way he narrates on this channel, and now I find it difficult to come back. Even though I find these vids really really interesting.
Right? You gotta love a culture that is that straight forward. Like they would have seen a European Iron Maiden and renamed it a "Stabbing Coffin" or something, or seen a baptism and just name it a "Baby Dunking".
@@Im-Not-a-Dog Looking at youkai names is especially fun with their obviousness. My personal favorite is called shirime, meaning “butt eye” (shiri = butt, me = eye). It’s a humanoid creature with an eyeball where its butthole should be. This particular youkai isn’t evil or anything…it just thinks surprising people is fun.
One of the examples of straightforward, if amusing, names the Japanese give things is "yodare kake", the 'bib' of armor lames attached to the lower edge of the face armor which protected a samurai's neck and throat; the term literally means "dribble hang".
I would think sacrificing someone in the foundation or the structure of the building would only bring bad omens in the form of the ghost of the sacrifice haunting the building
Actually, the belief is quite the opposite because they are based on religions that are about spirit worshiping not god worshiping. So ghosts are viewed very differently in those belief systems and having them around or even created deliberately or taken under your control can be beneficial for the people performing the ritual. But if you look at how spirit creations are done with some of these religions, like, yeah, no. Hell, no. Even when there's no explicit killing involved, still no.
"Following religious custom, a twelve year old widow is burned on a pyre to join her deceased husband in death." That single sentence contains an eyewatering number of tragedies.
Animal sacrifices related to buildings are well documented in the British isles to ward off witchcraft . Collecting trophy heads was an important practice by some Celtic and Germanic tribes. Sati is recorded by westerners as late as the 1930's in Hindu Bali with a particular cremation mentioned where not only the wife but other young women or girls were burned. It was speculated that they were drugged as they appeared to go willingly into the fire. Animal sacrifices are still very common in Bali.
@@WooarghMost U.S Natives lived lives on the move, with very few, if any, permanent settlements. In such cultures it was usually the old and feeble who self sacrificed, by staying behind, once they became too weak to travel. In some northern cultures on Eurasia, elderly or sick "went for walk" in the snow, giving their life, so that those who were left, could eat their portion of winter storages. It seems that once a human population starts farming, they start oppressing each other with slavery, or limiting women into breeding machines... This is also when cultures start sacrificing young and healthy people, and the sacrifices seem less willing. Hunter gatherers seem to give more individual freedom, as long as you are born (and stay) healthy. Less discrimination based on arbitrary things like looks or sex. But once you became a burden, the community couldn't afford to look after you.
On animal sacrifice, I head that many earlier Christians took the tradition of burying a dog on a new cemetery. It's spirit was supposed to guard the dead ones from demons or evil spirits. On new church grounds, too. I believe some cultures saw a black dog or a cat to be a best animal for such sacrifice? Italian homes saw a black cat as lucky, and Ireland saw them as unlucky, so perhaps that played a part?
We have a local Somali population that practices female circumcision on very young girls. The local Feminists don't seem to mind at all. " It is truly a wonder how marvelously God created man to so well endure the suffering of others ". Voltaire.
When he said some of the disturbing rituals are much more recent, I was like "Awesome, let's see who those freaks are that were sacrificing people for stupid reasons" only for the first example to be from my own culture.
I don't believe for a second that any of the women "performing" sati were doing so voluntarily, more likely it was a way to get rid of and extra mouth to feed by the family of the husband.
I wouldn't take that bet. Different cultures that are way older than we can imagine have some messed up baggage. In India and Pakistan there's as bad or worse as Sati considered totally cool and normal there by some.
Bro that "binding of the years" shit is WILD! It stopped me in my tracks at work so I could pull my phone out and watch it. That kind of stuff is so intriguing to me. Love the content dude!
Hey maybe the reason it's so hard to get permits for construction is because the gods come and tell the city council not enough blood was spilt to build that addition on your house
Maybe the reason certain constructions fail or seem shoddy even when built properly, or breakdown faster than they should is because they didn't get enough blood sacrifice in the construction process? Lol
There is a rather long local Australian take on what Noah, if asked by God today to build an Ark in Australia...he would fail because of the government bureaucracy around such a project and God doesn't end up flooding the world because our bureaucracy was punishment enough.
Im mexican, and i live in mexico city relatively close to the hill of the star. It has been a natural reserve for little more than a hundred years, although the urban expansion means it is much smaller than in the 1900s. On the base of the reserve (not the hill, that starts way sooner but is urban landscape) there is a museum telling you about the sacrifice and ceremonies of the new fire, as well as old skeletons foumd on the hill. On the top of the hill, visible from everywhere where you can see the hill which is all high rise buildings, buildings in the hills to the east, or high enough houses like mine, you can see the syraight line that is the base of the pyramid where the sacrifices were made. Runners, cyclists, hikers, and tourists finish their tour of the hill in the pyramid, right next to the table where the sacrifices were made. The hill is beautiful, and from the pyramid you can see all of the city if visibility is good. You can even see mexicos tallest mountains, the Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl, active and sleeping volcanies respectively. If you want to see for yourself, go on google maps and search "cerro de la estrella". Cerro meaning hill, and estrella, star. God i love my city
sacrificing someone and placing the body in the edifice, sounds like a perfect recipe for a really good haunting. Sometimes Nuke's Top 5 or 10, usually has some creepy content
Japanese Human Pillars are REALLY interesting since the majority of them aren't officially recorded so when doing restorations on very old structures there is actually a very likely possibility someone will come across one by random chance. They were put in walls, floors, sometimes even hidden rooms in addition to being put into the foundation. They where apparently usually carpenters and there is supposedly a superstition in Japan if you were building a fortification or other kind of building where the lay out needed to be kept secret the chief builder(s) that had to have the whole lay out memorized for the construction would become the pillar(s) to protect the security of the place.
@@pambronson4467 I'll have to go looking for those. Egyptians almost sounds like a given when you think about it and how they viewed death. But I never would have thought of the Norse or even Pirate Factions doing this... well maybe I could see it from the Norse since the whole "Odin hung himself in the tree of life" thing.
How can you tell how many of them were not workmen killed accidentally during the construction? I remember hearing that several workers were killed building 20th Century skyscrapers or even making spectacle movies. In ancient times, would it not be logical to bury them in situ?
I mean I am no expert and maybe that is the case for some of them. But it's to my understanding that these are both mummified as if they were ritualistically killed, dressed, and entombed with offerings and sacred scrolls. And they do not match known burial traditions for those eras and places. The biggest issue trying to know for sure is isolated Japan was so Xenophobic in some places very rural villages had almost cult like traditions and it was taboo to allow anyone outside the village to know about or see their rituals. It got so "diverse" from village to village and stories of really extreme rituals where making it back to the Palace more than once the Emperor or their Proxy had to send High Priests from the Imperial Temple/Sect to make sure people weren't getting crazy with their interpretation of the Shinto Religion essentially a Spiritual Wellness Check and even those High Priests were often threatened and shunned away from the more cult like villages as outsiders with no business seeing or knowing what they do. On top of all that it REALLY doesn't help that the more cult like villages often developed their form of Japanese Writing that only select people in the village could read to protect the taboo and secrecy of the village regarding their religious texts so some of what there is to go on today is mostly gibberish if the language died with the old villages.
We could forward all those videos to the people who go around saying "Oh, things were so much better when *I* was growing up, what has the world come to?" etc.
I seem to remember a cache of Viking skulls being found among the Nazca trophies (probably sailed off course and were lost), which makes me wonder what their final days were like.
Did they sail up the Amazon then stagger into the desert? Or around the straights and up the Pacific coast, and over the mountains?.... or during a really warm summer, across Canada and down the Bering... Hard to get Vikings into the Nazca...
Traced my ancestors to the Scythians. To honor their leader they buried women, pets, etc. ate their own when they past, and drunk from the skulls of their enemies! My husband’s face when I mentioned this!
Religious dudes: We need a sacrifice. Who out there will put up less of a struggle and make this easy? Other religious dudes: Hmmm, I am a man, hence it shouldn't be me. Other religious dudes: We agree. Let us toss women, children, the lame and weak into the flames or bury them alive because we're stronger than them. Supreme religious dude: Yes. I will preside over it.
The whole sacrificing people for buildings and especially burying people alive is effin gruesome. And it's all over the place, some strange strange pan proto spiritualism (not the best word) that kept popping up as recently as the 12-1300s Considering how the past was the worst and how central social pressure, bullying and perpetuating trauma over generations must have been on the ground realities, I can sort of understand how a depressed abused member of the community with solid paranormal beliefs could think that getting sacrificed at least served some purpose compared to the psychological hell their society was otherwise putting them through. And consider the love bombing present in so many human sacrifice traditions (at least across ancient and medieval Europe and South America)
How the first human sacrifice happened; probably. -Shaman "Alright guys as you know it won't rain and we've been dancing like crazy. What should we do? Well... We gotta kill Doug. Now, hear me out..."
I love how his accent changes from a more formal one to something more guttural when he does the little end pieces advertising his other videos. It's like 'Hey, I can be strict, but I'm really a crazy person'.
Woman have historically been less valuable in most cultures, I don’t understand how this is surprising looking at the world we are in and what horrors still happen in some corners.
No, because the all-important thing was the purity of the women. They couldn't remarry because if the bride wasn't a virgin when she married her husband would have no guarantee a child she conceived was his (I guess they locked up or restricted the women a lot, otherwise they'd have no confidence in that anyway), and caring for them would be a burden- so the solution was to kill them. They'd literally rather kill them than run the SLIGHTEST risk of being cuckolded. Maybe there was also an aspect of making sure the husbands were happy in the afterlife, but either way, it revolved solely around male concerns.
The Celts were Headhunters. A King would consult with the severed heads of his enemies before he made big decisions. The thinking behind it being that the heads never gave bad advice. Also, it minimised rivalries between other members of his council or warband. The King would consult with his homeboys, then go and discuss it with his collection of rotting heads before making his decision. What's the point of factions if the only thing that swayed the King were the dead voices of all the men he'd slain in battle? How badly do you want the King to make you a trusted advisor?
Very interesting, glad those rituals aren't common anymore! Human sacrifice and keeping heads as trophies are some morbid pursuits. Thank you for the video.
I remember seeing a documentary that included the entombing an Abbot, who willingly had himself entombed alive in the foundations of an Abby somewhere on the west coast of either Scotland or Ireland in the early years of Christianity. I have no idea if it really happened, however, I have found that the more more bizarre the story the more likely it is to have happened.
Hindu widows had almost no social standing. They had no rights to any property. Good sons cared for their mother, but it wasn't required. A widow could go work in a temple as a sex worker, but this avenue wasn't open to high class women. Widows had few choices.
That was excellent thanks Simon. Particularly liked the sacrifice that involved lighting a fire inside the victim then carrying that flame around. Aztec Olympics
I remember this weird ritual where you'd go to a place, look around, grab an item, then go in front of this person and say "I'd like to rent this tape, please". The two persons would then exchange this ancient papyrus-like object called "money" for this other ancient item called "tape". After some time, the person would then have to return the precious item to the structure.
That practice was taken over by the cult of the Red Box. I have heard tales that now days you can sacrifice bits of coin to a spider cult known as the dark web.
The horrible stuff that people did/do in the name of religion and gods. If they had buried/sacrificed the priests, or whoever decided that a human sacrifice was needed, the practice would been very short lived.
I came across a story once, and I will be the first to admit that a story might be all it is, but, supposedly a local leader went to the Imperial Governor of the region to complain when Sati was banned. The Governor was somewhat perplexed and asked, "Why do you want to go around and burn people alive?" "It's our tradition," the local leader said. "Hmm, I see," the governor replied. "Traditions are important, we have one back in England where we hang people who burn other people alive. "So by all means follow your tradition, then we'll follow ours."
It's most likely a story since I've heard variations of it in other places and cultures. It might have some basis in truth though, as in one real incident occured that went along these lines and it's legend spread around the world.
Fuck*ng horrifying, yet completely understandable to hear that from the average human. In my parts we have a saying: "Better for the village to die than its tradition..."
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A lot of ads can be filtered out by Adblock, but many youtubers use those annoying ads that are part of the video. 2 mins is a bit extreme, downvote. Personally, I mute the sound and move the bar until I reach the end of the ad. But I will make a note to myself which products and companies I will avoid in the future and will recommend to people around me not use them either. Seems to be a common practise more so every year. Nobody likes to be spoonfed bs ads. If the content is great, people will donate to the youtuber freely.
I feel your pain in the pronunciation of the Meso-American civilization’s. I have been there numerous times and can’t pronounce the names until I repeat then over and over. The “X” is usually silent.
Nahuatl pronunciations are tricky for us westerners sometimes. I have found X to be pronouced as Sh...for instance Xipe Totec (god of spring and regeneration) is pronounced: "Sheepay Toe tek" Xiuhtecuhtli, the god of fire mentioned in this video is pronounced: "Shoota cootly"
There were definitely a lot of nasty punishments/executions for Europeans accused of witchcraft, I know that's one good example. Idk if some people would call them 'rituals,' but things like that certainly happened often enough to be disturbing. Also, how hundreds, if not thousands, of people would show up to watch public executions in western Europe and cheer on the executioners. And sometimes attempt to drink the blood from beheaded people.
Anchorites still exist, though 100% voluntarily. (I don't know if it ever wasn't voluntary, tbh, though I know becoming a nun often wasn't in the past. But anchorites had a window to talk to people through and an involuntary one would just be begging to leave one would think.)
The Aztecs celebrated their New Years by sacrificing stuff & not sleeping.Today’s humans celebrate New Year by sacrificing time & not sleeping.I now see the similiarities between us & the Aztecs.
Peter and Iona Opie, in their magisterial Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, theorise that the jolly old song 'London Bridge is Falling Down' testifies to this practice of architectural human sacrifice. The bridge falls down over over and over again, whatever the quality of the materials used, until we "Set a man to watch it o'er".
The customs involving bloodletting and deliberately touching fire make me wonder how many people died from infections thereafter? Did they have any medicines or salves to wash the wounds with? I would expect they must've had some, but what an unpleasant "hangover" that must've been once the celebrating was done :( I'd have chickened out on that one for sure. As much as I have the utmost respect for trying to let indigenous peoples practice their customs unhindered by modern outsiders, there are certain things here and there that I'm glad have been put a stop to, like the Sati, considering how many women and young girls were able to be forced into it against their will. If someone volunteers then that's one thing, but involuntary is not right. Something surprising I learned the other day was that during the 1960 Chilean 9.5 earthquake, a coastal indigenous village sacrificed one of their 5-year-old boys to the ocean as a religious plea to stop the destruction from the earthquake and related tsunami. If someone had volunteered for this then that's one thing, but it's questionable to me whether a 5-year-old would have enough understanding of the situation to willingly sacrifice himself. I think the local police did investigate the situation, but idk all the details.
Simon Whistler aka Fact Boy is slowly taking over TH-cam with his influence and we will not rest until he has all the channels!!! lol good work Simon and cast you guys are amazing and keep me going most days!! much love from Oregon state!!!! long time fact boy fan!!!
Man, you didn’t bring up thesmophoria ☹️ I wanted to hear about Greek women making penis bread and sacrificing pigs and sobbing and punching each other while cursing 😂😂😂😂 (At least that’s what I remember from my college friend’s project that I was an actress for) (I also was the scholar analyzing the festival and concluded that it was aliens before she told me to stick to the script 😂😂😂)
So right before chapter 2 ads hit. The first starts out “melted to perfection” it was about some restaurants paninis but I found it fitting when chapter 2 was about fire sacrifice
It's pretty interesting seeing just how imaginative and downright stupid religious ideas were throughout our history. Thank the non-existent deities we don't sacrifice people anymore.
@@thevastexpanse3530 They do in Benin, and I'm sure many other places. People have committed ritual human sacrifice in modern day America, thankfully most have been caught and imprisoned. It's happened in Europe, too.
At 9:00 it reminds me of the way they celebrate Easter in Greece, where the priest will announce that Jesus was resurrected by saying "here receive the light (or knowledge)" and everyone will light their candles on a flame shared by the church and others then carry that home to be kept alight. The way religions all tied up and had the same traditions is fascinating.
Britain too. The old folktale is that Vortigern tried to have young Merlin interred under the fortress he was trying to build on a hill. Merlin lead him into the caverns underneath, which explained the constant collapses of the walls. A theme in many old tales in the North.
How many things we find acceptable to day will be found acceptable tomorrow? Using our current prison system today, compared to yesterday, it's acceptable. But future generation will have developed entirely different systems when they realize the previous system we acknowldge today is barbaric.
Human sacrifice was far more effective than having task masters with a sword at everyone's throats for maintaining control. Every religion has been used for the bolstering the morally bankrupt idea of the Divine Right of Kings
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I feel like this video belongs on your darker side of history channel
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As a child in London I remember our Victorian home being renovated. Inside one of the chimneys a box was discovered containing a dead bird and various other items like small bottles sealed with wax and little packages tired with cord. Our builder said he'd seen lots of these and they were known as builder's sacrifices. Apparently children's shoes were often included too. He also explained about witch's bottles buried under the floors etc and apotropaic markings on the north facing roof beams of many houses to protect from evil. They were usually 7 vertical lines denoting the 7 sacraments and/or the Chi Rho sign for Christ. Many of these marks were done in the 17th and 18th centuries, long after the Protestant Reformation had reduced the number of sacraments to two.
I find it fascinating how ancient traditions are adapted and evolved to be used even in relatively modern times
Completely loved your comment! Very interesting, thank you!
Wow intriguing I had never heard of this
Wow, thank you for sharing this information!
As a builder, there's more than a few home owners I'd like to include in the foundation.
I think this ritual was common among Italian-American community :D
Ditto lots of homeowners think that of some of the more incompetent builders😂
Amen to that brother!
SGT Smith
😂 I bet!
Thank you. Needed that laugh 👌
It pisses me off that they broke their word to that poor lady. A person ought to keep their word to the dead, since there's no way to apologize.
"Hey guys let's slice our tongues and then have a big feast. Yes. That is absolutely the order these things should happen"
No citrus please.
I think non of them complained...
My guess is they routinely used hallucinogenics and between that and the religious fervour (aka brainwashing) they barely noticed the pain
@@susie9893😂😂😂I think they noticed the pain.😂😂😂😂
Hindsight is 2020
It’s been I don’t know how many years and I still can’t get enough of Simon’s pain from having to make damn near impossible pronunciations.
Even if he would COMPLETELY run out of content (LOL!), I would still stick around just for that
His pronunciation of aztec/spanish words is my favorite.
He absolutely butchers everything Irish 🤣
TBF that Mezzo-American stuff is impossible. No wonder people think they were aliens!
Y'know what is the BEST butchering BY FAR...? Effortlessly :D it is so not effortless for him... He always says efforletlessly for what ever fucking reason xD??
"Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs!" - British Governor, Charles Napier
Jolly good show. Almost. Except for the burning alive.
i think he forgot witch hunt
@@felidaebi6239 Charles Napier's dates are 1782-1853. The last person to be burned for witchcraft in England was in 1727. The Witchcraft Act 1735 ended prosecutions for alleged witchcraft in England. So to be fair to the then British Governor, he wasn't wrong.
I love how Simon has different personas for each channel he hosts. I found him on the today I found out channel but stayed a subscriber for the casual criminalist and while watching this I halfway expected him to talk about how hard the name pronunciations were. Thank you for your hard work and dedication Simon. You’re awesome!
brain blaze is the one to view
It's so jarring. I watched this channel first, and loved it, but then watched his others, realised he doesn't actually talk the way he narrates on this channel, and now I find it difficult to come back. Even though I find these vids really really interesting.
Started with brain blaze, and now i half expect him to shout "AM I RIGHT PETER?!" on all his channels
“Hitobashira” literally means “human pillar.” The Japanese are nothing if not incredibly straightforward with naming things.
Right? You gotta love a culture that is that straight forward. Like they would have seen a European Iron Maiden and renamed it a "Stabbing Coffin" or something, or seen a baptism and just name it a "Baby Dunking".
@@Im-Not-a-Dog Looking at youkai names is especially fun with their obviousness. My personal favorite is called shirime, meaning “butt eye” (shiri = butt, me = eye). It’s a humanoid creature with an eyeball where its butthole should be. This particular youkai isn’t evil or anything…it just thinks surprising people is fun.
One of the examples of straightforward, if amusing, names the Japanese give things is "yodare kake", the 'bib' of armor lames attached to the lower edge of the face armor which protected a samurai's neck and throat; the term literally means "dribble hang".
German does this too
Bra is bust holder lol
@@larapalma3744 My sister studied abroad in Berlin and she actually told me this recently! But I love this specific example 😂😂😂 boob container
I would think sacrificing someone in the foundation or the structure of the building would only bring bad omens in the form of the ghost of the sacrifice haunting the building
Ghosts don't exist, so building is even safer ;^)
Actually, the belief is quite the opposite because they are based on religions that are about spirit worshiping not god worshiping. So ghosts are viewed very differently in those belief systems and having them around or even created deliberately or taken under your control can be beneficial for the people performing the ritual.
But if you look at how spirit creations are done with some of these religions, like, yeah, no. Hell, no. Even when there's no explicit killing involved, still no.
Bodies hidden in concrete create weak spots. Ghosts may not exist, but necrotic gas has power.
The sprit of a sacrificial person is happiness in the next life
You get your ideas from Hollywood horror flicks
“Damn we mixed this concrete wrong, anyone have any ideas how we can get this foundation stable again?”
“Have we buried any infants under it yet?”
"Following religious custom, a twelve year old widow is burned on a pyre to join her deceased husband in death."
That single sentence contains an eyewatering number of tragedies.
Wow, I didn't even think about that... How awful
Especially people watching a twelve year old girl burn to death.
I'm stunned. That's such a horrible ritual, it's hard to even comprehend.
@Pops Mcgee * eye roll
Thought they abandoned that years ago?
Animal sacrifices related to buildings are well documented in the British isles to ward off witchcraft . Collecting trophy heads was an important practice by some Celtic and Germanic tribes. Sati is recorded by westerners as late as the 1930's in Hindu Bali with a particular cremation mentioned where not only the wife but other young women or girls were burned. It was speculated that they were drugged as they appeared to go willingly into the fire. Animal sacrifices are still very common in Bali.
So Europe does these literally disgusting rituals too. He said that every continent has done them but the US has never done any of them OMG.
@@WooarghMost U.S Natives lived lives on the move, with very few, if any, permanent settlements. In such cultures it was usually the old and feeble who self sacrificed, by staying behind, once they became too weak to travel. In some northern cultures on Eurasia, elderly or sick "went for walk" in the snow, giving their life, so that those who were left, could eat their portion of winter storages.
It seems that once a human population starts farming, they start oppressing each other with slavery, or limiting women into breeding machines... This is also when cultures start sacrificing young and healthy people, and the sacrifices seem less willing.
Hunter gatherers seem to give more individual freedom, as long as you are born (and stay) healthy. Less discrimination based on arbitrary things like looks or sex. But once you became a burden, the community couldn't afford to look after you.
On animal sacrifice, I head that many earlier Christians took the tradition of burying a dog on a new cemetery. It's spirit was supposed to guard the dead ones from demons or evil spirits. On new church grounds, too.
I believe some cultures saw a black dog or a cat to be a best animal for such sacrifice? Italian homes saw a black cat as lucky, and Ireland saw them as unlucky, so perhaps that played a part?
@@Wooargh bet there’s bodies in all the foundations of US state buildings !
Why would they do witch craft type things to ward off witchcraft? I don’t understand
This couldda been a heck of a lot longer and darker.. I'm very surprised alot of sadistic things weren't listed.
I was thinking the same thing. Probably gonna have a part 2 then.
We have a local Somali population that practices female circumcision on very young girls. The local Feminists don't seem to mind at all. " It is truly a wonder how marvelously God created man to so well endure the suffering of others ". Voltaire.
@@george40nelson4firstly it’s an ancient Egyptian tradition. Also feminist do care about it.
When he said some of the disturbing rituals are much more recent, I was like "Awesome, let's see who those freaks are that were sacrificing people for stupid reasons" only for the first example to be from my own culture.
Oof
😂😂
Keeping the head of an enemy…just feels something young children, trapped on an island, would end up doing…
Your childhood must have been very interesting.
@@pakde8002 this is a literary reference, he's talking about Lord of the Flies, dude
South Park kids maybe
With flies lol
I bet Simon has a blood ritual he does with every new writer he keeps chained up in the Blazement
#FreeDanny
He's be more likely to perform a ritual sacrifice for the creation of each new channel.
#KeepDanny
What we need here is a union organizer from WGA
By the warp! i suddenly have an idea for novel construction materials! Blood for the blood god! Skulls for the skull throne!
Over here, Inquisitor!
The Tyranids have sensed a new prey
The Emperor sees your sins.
Chaco Conats!
Ha ha ha!
Ahhh I'm glad to see a fellow khorn enthusiast
So important that we don't forget where we have come from and how critical protection of the vulnerable is.
I don't believe for a second that any of the women "performing" sati were doing so voluntarily, more likely it was a way to get rid of and extra mouth to feed by the family of the husband.
100% although I will say. I bet like there was one. Just due to the odds. Romeo and Juliet style. But that’s it. Like easily 99.9999999% unwilling.
I wouldn't take that bet. Different cultures that are way older than we can imagine have some messed up baggage. In India and Pakistan there's as bad or worse as Sati considered totally cool and normal there by some.
I wonder how many of these women had young children. Super fucked up.
@@Monica_Leigh 0 they probably were young children. Alot of Ancient people are fucked
Agree!. They blame widows for their husband dying as they were “bad luck”. Made her impossible to marry off again.
Bro that "binding of the years" shit is WILD! It stopped me in my tracks at work so I could pull my phone out and watch it. That kind of stuff is so intriguing to me. Love the content dude!
Hey maybe the reason it's so hard to get permits for construction is because the gods come and tell the city council not enough blood was spilt to build that addition on your house
Maybe the reason certain constructions fail or seem shoddy even when built properly, or breakdown faster than they should is because they didn't get enough blood sacrifice in the construction process? Lol
There is a rather long local Australian take on what Noah, if asked by God today to build an Ark in Australia...he would fail because of the government bureaucracy around such a project and God doesn't end up flooding the world because our bureaucracy was punishment enough.
Didn't ancient pantheons have a god of bureaucracy? Certainly the Sumerians.
As a great Bavarian philosopher once said: „Even the future isn‘t as bright as it once used to be.“
truer words have never been said
These types of sideprojects are fun 😎 a bit different from the usual and always stuff I've never heard about before 👍
And you’ll never use other than trivial pursuit or who wants to be a millionaire lol
Thanks :)
Im mexican, and i live in mexico city relatively close to the hill of the star. It has been a natural reserve for little more than a hundred years, although the urban expansion means it is much smaller than in the 1900s. On the base of the reserve (not the hill, that starts way sooner but is urban landscape) there is a museum telling you about the sacrifice and ceremonies of the new fire, as well as old skeletons foumd on the hill. On the top of the hill, visible from everywhere where you can see the hill which is all high rise buildings, buildings in the hills to the east, or high enough houses like mine, you can see the syraight line that is the base of the pyramid where the sacrifices were made. Runners, cyclists, hikers, and tourists finish their tour of the hill in the pyramid, right next to the table where the sacrifices were made. The hill is beautiful, and from the pyramid you can see all of the city if visibility is good. You can even see mexicos tallest mountains, the Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl, active and sleeping volcanies respectively. If you want to see for yourself, go on google maps and search "cerro de la estrella". Cerro meaning hill, and estrella, star. God i love my city
I'd love to go there and see that!
sacrificing someone and placing the body in the edifice, sounds like a perfect recipe for a really good haunting. Sometimes Nuke's Top 5 or 10, usually has some creepy content
Japanese Human Pillars are REALLY interesting since the majority of them aren't officially recorded so when doing restorations on very old structures there is actually a very likely possibility someone will come across one by random chance. They were put in walls, floors, sometimes even hidden rooms in addition to being put into the foundation. They where apparently usually carpenters and there is supposedly a superstition in Japan if you were building a fortification or other kind of building where the lay out needed to be kept secret the chief builder(s) that had to have the whole lay out memorized for the construction would become the pillar(s) to protect the security of the place.
The Norse, the Egyptians, and even some Pirates utilized human offerings in this manner.
@@pambronson4467 I'll have to go looking for those. Egyptians almost sounds like a given when you think about it and how they viewed death. But I never would have thought of the Norse or even Pirate Factions doing this... well maybe I could see it from the Norse since the whole "Odin hung himself in the tree of life" thing.
How can you tell how many of them were not workmen killed accidentally during the construction? I remember hearing that several workers were killed building 20th Century skyscrapers or even making spectacle movies. In ancient times, would it not be logical to bury them in situ?
@@pambronson4467 Pirates? You mean, like the Sea Peoples?
I mean I am no expert and maybe that is the case for some of them. But it's to my understanding that these are both mummified as if they were ritualistically killed, dressed, and entombed with offerings and sacred scrolls. And they do not match known burial traditions for those eras and places. The biggest issue trying to know for sure is isolated Japan was so Xenophobic in some places very rural villages had almost cult like traditions and it was taboo to allow anyone outside the village to know about or see their rituals. It got so "diverse" from village to village and stories of really extreme rituals where making it back to the Palace more than once the Emperor or their Proxy had to send High Priests from the Imperial Temple/Sect to make sure people weren't getting crazy with their interpretation of the Shinto Religion essentially a Spiritual Wellness Check and even those High Priests were often threatened and shunned away from the more cult like villages as outsiders with no business seeing or knowing what they do. On top of all that it REALLY doesn't help that the more cult like villages often developed their form of Japanese Writing that only select people in the village could read to protect the taboo and secrecy of the village regarding their religious texts so some of what there is to go on today is mostly gibberish if the language died with the old villages.
Please make a channel called "The past was the worst" and do videos comparing the past and how easy we have it in modern times
We could forward all those videos to the people who go around saying "Oh, things were so much better when *I* was growing up, what has the world come to?" etc.
The Irish used to keep heads outside their huts back in the day
I seem to remember a cache of Viking skulls being found among the Nazca trophies (probably sailed off course and were lost), which makes me wonder what their final days were like.
Did they sail up the Amazon then stagger into the desert? Or around the straights and up the Pacific coast, and over the mountains?.... or during a really warm summer, across Canada and down the Bering... Hard to get Vikings into the Nazca...
Traced my ancestors to the Scythians. To honor their leader they buried women, pets, etc. ate their own when they past, and drunk from the skulls of their enemies! My husband’s face when I mentioned this!
Religious dudes: We need a sacrifice. Who out there will put up less of a struggle and make this easy?
Other religious dudes: Hmmm, I am a man, hence it shouldn't be me.
Other religious dudes: We agree. Let us toss women, children, the lame and weak into the flames or bury them alive because we're stronger than them.
Supreme religious dude: Yes. I will preside over it.
The whole sacrificing people for buildings and especially burying people alive is effin gruesome. And it's all over the place, some strange strange pan proto spiritualism (not the best word) that kept popping up as recently as the 12-1300s
Considering how the past was the worst and how central social pressure, bullying and perpetuating trauma over generations must have been on the ground realities, I can sort of understand how a depressed abused member of the community with solid paranormal beliefs could think that getting sacrificed at least served some purpose compared to the psychological hell their society was otherwise putting them through. And consider the love bombing present in so many human sacrifice traditions (at least across ancient and medieval Europe and South America)
Seems to me like burying someone alive inside the walls of your castle is a great way to have a haunted castle. You know if ghosts were real
But they're not, so.... stupid comment.
In the case of Japan, the ghost of that dutiful sacrifice would probably help protect the place.
How the first human sacrifice happened; probably.
-Shaman "Alright guys as you know it won't rain and we've been dancing like crazy. What should we do? Well... We gotta kill Doug. Now, hear me out..."
Seeing Simon come across ancient South American languages cracks me up every time 😂😂
I love how his accent changes from a more formal one to something more guttural when he does the little end pieces advertising his other videos. It's like 'Hey, I can be strict, but I'm really a crazy person'.
🤫 1:58 to skip the ads 😉
Were the husbands burned on the pyre of their dead wives? No? I thought not.
Woman have historically been less valuable in most cultures, I don’t understand how this is surprising looking at the world we are in and what horrors still happen in some corners.
No, because the all-important thing was the purity of the women. They couldn't remarry because if the bride wasn't a virgin when she married her husband would have no guarantee a child she conceived was his (I guess they locked up or restricted the women a lot, otherwise they'd have no confidence in that anyway), and caring for them would be a burden- so the solution was to kill them. They'd literally rather kill them than run the SLIGHTEST risk of being cuckolded. Maybe there was also an aspect of making sure the husbands were happy in the afterlife, but either way, it revolved solely around male concerns.
Why not!!!!!!
Guya are smarter. ;-)
you can get a new wifex
The Celts were Headhunters. A King would consult with the severed heads of his enemies before he made big decisions. The thinking behind it being that the heads never gave bad advice. Also, it minimised rivalries between other members of his council or warband. The King would consult with his homeboys, then go and discuss it with his collection of rotting heads before making his decision. What's the point of factions if the only thing that swayed the King were the dead voices of all the men he'd slain in battle? How badly do you want the King to make you a trusted advisor?
Head of state
Very interesting, glad those rituals aren't common anymore!
Human sacrifice and keeping heads as trophies are some morbid pursuits.
Thank you for the video.
Geees and I thought my severe OCD rituals were fucked up! Awesome video as always- love from Australia x
I remember seeing a documentary that included the entombing an Abbot, who willingly had himself entombed alive in the foundations of an Abby somewhere on the west coast of either Scotland or Ireland in the early years of Christianity.
I have no idea if it really happened, however, I have found that the more more bizarre the story the more likely it is to have happened.
Hindu widows had almost no social standing. They had no rights to any property. Good sons cared for their mother, but it wasn't required. A widow could go work in a temple as a sex worker, but this avenue wasn't open to high class women. Widows had few choices.
That was excellent thanks Simon.
Particularly liked the sacrifice that involved lighting a fire inside the victim then carrying that flame around. Aztec Olympics
Oh Simon. You had me at Viewer Discretion.
"The past was the worst" i'm stealing that
Yes Simon, almost two weeks after recording we’re finally seeing this one.
I'm liking the more comfortable Simon. And I'm also liking the new beard cut. And then you see the pre recorded show... Beard's back...
Aren't they still occasionally finding kids buried under the corner stones of houses from like the 1600s in the UK?
I remember this weird ritual where you'd go to a place, look around, grab an item, then go in front of this person and say "I'd like to rent this tape, please". The two persons would then exchange this ancient papyrus-like object called "money" for this other ancient item called "tape". After some time, the person would then have to return the precious item to the structure.
That practice was taken over by the cult of the Red Box. I have heard tales that now days you can sacrifice bits of coin to a spider cult known as the dark web.
the temple 'buster of blocks' - where the ritual invocation 'be kind, rewind' could often be heard
I remember this ritual
Would they throw the husband on the fire if the wife died? No, I don’t think so which is why it took so long to outlaw.
The horrible stuff that people did/do in the name of religion and gods. If they had buried/sacrificed the priests, or whoever decided that a human sacrifice was needed, the practice would been very short lived.
First time I became aware of the Hindu practice of burning widows alive was from the Willy Fogg cartoon in the 1980’s
I’m sorry, but at 6:05 when I saw a skull being excavated, I couldn’t help but think of Bully McGuire saying “I’m gonna put some dirt in your eye!”😂
"It's not coffee. It's something better!"
*HERESY DETECTED*
I came across a story once, and I will be the first to admit that a story might be all it is, but, supposedly a local leader went to the Imperial Governor of the region to complain when Sati was banned.
The Governor was somewhat perplexed and asked, "Why do you want to go around and burn people alive?"
"It's our tradition," the local leader said.
"Hmm, I see," the governor replied. "Traditions are important, we have one back in England where we hang people who burn other people alive.
"So by all means follow your tradition, then we'll follow ours."
It's most likely a story since I've heard variations of it in other places and cultures. It might have some basis in truth though, as in one real incident occured that went along these lines and it's legend spread around the world.
Fuck*ng horrifying, yet completely understandable to hear that from the average human. In my parts we have a saying: "Better for the village to die than its tradition..."
Two and a half minutes of advertisement, followed by eleven minutes of actual content, and another minute of advertising. Also interrupted by youtubes' own advertising. Not worth it.
He lost me at the 1 minute point. I think he likes to hear himself talk
A lot of ads can be filtered out by Adblock, but many youtubers use those annoying ads that are part of the video. 2 mins is a bit extreme, downvote. Personally, I mute the sound and move the bar until I reach the end of the ad. But I will make a note to myself which products and companies I will avoid in the future and will recommend to people around me not use them either. Seems to be a common practise more so every year.
Nobody likes to be spoonfed bs ads. If the content is great, people will donate to the youtuber freely.
6:40 If I remember my reading, that would be "shyoo-teh-koot-lee".
People can be so barbaric, sadly they still are. We have seen that on the news, Simon's various channels and probably experienced it ourselves.
Can mortuary cannibalism be a future topic please?
the ad about morning brew being better than coffee hurt me
For a modern example: It is suggested that Imelda Marcos engineered some fatal construction accidents while building a cinema.
I feel your pain in the pronunciation of the Meso-American civilization’s. I have been there numerous times and can’t pronounce the names until I repeat then over and over. The “X” is usually silent.
Nahuatl pronunciations are tricky for us westerners sometimes. I have found X to be pronouced as Sh...for instance Xipe Totec (god of spring and regeneration) is pronounced: "Sheepay Toe tek" Xiuhtecuhtli, the god of fire mentioned in this video is pronounced: "Shoota cootly"
@@k33k32 More 'sh-you' than 'shoo', jammed together into one syllable, but that's close enough for legibility.
Had to look in the comments as I'd heard this pronounced before but looking at it in written format I was like saywhaaaatlacootie
Should have included some of the European examples, like immurement or anchorites.
There were definitely a lot of nasty punishments/executions for Europeans accused of witchcraft, I know that's one good example. Idk if some people would call them 'rituals,' but things like that certainly happened often enough to be disturbing.
Also, how hundreds, if not thousands, of people would show up to watch public executions in western Europe and cheer on the executioners. And sometimes attempt to drink the blood from beheaded people.
Anchorites still exist, though 100% voluntarily. (I don't know if it ever wasn't voluntary, tbh, though I know becoming a nun often wasn't in the past. But anchorites had a window to talk to people through and an involuntary one would just be begging to leave one would think.)
Die Hard, the best Xmas movie
If I have to see the Aztec Sun Stone referred to as a calendar one more time...
The Aztecs celebrated their New Years by sacrificing stuff & not sleeping.Today’s humans celebrate New Year by sacrificing time & not sleeping.I now see the similiarities between us & the Aztecs.
Yeah basically everything somehow happens in EST, realized when I moved to a new timezone
Just signed up for Morning Brew. Cheers.
Peter and Iona Opie, in their magisterial Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, theorise that the jolly old song 'London Bridge is Falling Down' testifies to this practice of architectural human sacrifice. The bridge falls down over over and over again, whatever the quality of the materials used, until we "Set a man to watch it o'er".
Good morning Simon, and away we go!
I find it amazing that lots of ancient cultures got the years length spot-on.
I know, they weren't dumb, but still.
Came back to watch this one again, so interesting and so dark 😎😎😎 do more like this!!!
The customs involving bloodletting and deliberately touching fire make me wonder how many people died from infections thereafter? Did they have any medicines or salves to wash the wounds with? I would expect they must've had some, but what an unpleasant "hangover" that must've been once the celebrating was done :( I'd have chickened out on that one for sure.
As much as I have the utmost respect for trying to let indigenous peoples practice their customs unhindered by modern outsiders, there are certain things here and there that I'm glad have been put a stop to, like the Sati, considering how many women and young girls were able to be forced into it against their will. If someone volunteers then that's one thing, but involuntary is not right. Something surprising I learned the other day was that during the 1960 Chilean 9.5 earthquake, a coastal indigenous village sacrificed one of their 5-year-old boys to the ocean as a religious plea to stop the destruction from the earthquake and related tsunami. If someone had volunteered for this then that's one thing, but it's questionable to me whether a 5-year-old would have enough understanding of the situation to willingly sacrifice himself. I think the local police did investigate the situation, but idk all the details.
Viewer discretion for sure 😃 who came up with these in the first place? Construction isn't going to schedule, bury someone in the walls 😳
Okay, I'll sacrifice my wife!
Legend
It might be good at keeping the contractor on schedule…
Simon Whistler aka Fact Boy is slowly taking over TH-cam with his influence and we will not rest until he has all the channels!!! lol good work Simon and cast you guys are amazing and keep me going most days!! much love from Oregon state!!!! long time fact boy fan!!!
This was only scratching the surface of this topic.
Sometimes i watch a random youtube video and half expect you to just show up with another channel because you Simon, are fricken awesome *clap clap*
"Bob - I'm gonna need you to work some overtime on that project. Remember the post we were going to use? Now you're the post"
"Look on the bright side. Your hard work wouldn't go unnoticed... until said post falls down, then well..." 🤷
So the gangsters putting bodies in concrete foundations are just relegious rites!
..."the pah-st was the wuhrst" brings a smile to my face every time I'm having a crappy day.
Does Simon use the same 10 facial expressions for every thumbnail? lol
10 most common phobias pls
Simon puts out more videos than I have time to watch. Lol
how many channels can one Simon have???
Has anyone ever noticed when someone has a vision telling them a human sacrifice is required, they are never the one sacrificed?
Man, you didn’t bring up thesmophoria ☹️ I wanted to hear about Greek women making penis bread and sacrificing pigs and sobbing and punching each other while cursing 😂😂😂😂
(At least that’s what I remember from my college friend’s project that I was an actress for) (I also was the scholar analyzing the festival and concluded that it was aliens before she told me to stick to the script 😂😂😂)
Why wasn’t the emperor willing to be a sacrifice himself, or his heir?
So right before chapter 2 ads hit. The first starts out “melted to perfection” it was about some restaurants paninis but I found it fitting when chapter 2 was about fire sacrifice
I notice that widowers were not required to immolate themselves on their dead wives funeral pyres.
It's pretty interesting seeing just how imaginative and downright stupid religious ideas were throughout our history. Thank the non-existent deities we don't sacrifice people anymore.
I have 0 doubt that human sacrifices still happen in todays age
Every person who dies of preventable illness because they can't afford health insurance is a sacrifice to Mammon, metaphorically speaking.
Texas is gleefully working up the murder of pregnant women.
@@thevastexpanse3530 They do in Benin, and I'm sure many other places. People have committed ritual human sacrifice in modern day America, thankfully most have been caught and imprisoned. It's happened in Europe, too.
How about you ask a Christian who they believe God is, and what is God like? You will find that these horrific ideas are/were our own, not Gods.
Hello from Balkans,Croatia.You did a good job reading a serbian name.
Love all your chanels.
At 9:00 it reminds me of the way they celebrate Easter in Greece, where the priest will announce that Jesus was resurrected by saying "here receive the light (or knowledge)" and everyone will light their candles on a flame shared by the church and others then carry that home to be kept alight. The way religions all tied up and had the same traditions is fascinating.
Britain too. The old folktale is that Vortigern tried to have young Merlin interred under the fortress he was trying to build on a hill. Merlin lead him into the caverns underneath, which explained the constant collapses of the walls. A theme in many old tales in the North.
"viewer discretion advised" ... The only clickbait I need! 😂
How many things we find acceptable to day will be found acceptable tomorrow? Using our current prison system today, compared to yesterday, it's acceptable. But future generation will have developed entirely different systems when they realize the previous system we acknowldge today is barbaric.
Shoe-teh-coot-li...yeah...had to look that one up. Just....wow! Another badass video btw. Thanks again for owning TH-cam!
How about sacrificing televangelists to Cthulhu in loathsome, unspeakable abominal rites?
Human sacrifice was far more effective than having task masters with a sword at everyone's throats for maintaining control.
Every religion has been used for the bolstering the morally bankrupt idea of the Divine Right of Kings
Heresy, there is nothing better than coffee.