Between June and September 1692, some 19 men and women were found guilty of witchcraft and executed in the small religious community of Salem, Massachusetts, in northeastern America.
A horror that shocked the world, the Salem witch trials have spawned hundreds of films, books, scholarly articles and plays, including Arthur Miller’s acclaimed 1953 work The Crucible.
The executed men and women were convicted on the spurious evidence of a group of young village girls who claimed to have been bewitched.
Paranoia, fed by ongoing family feuds and attacks by Native Americans, developed into a wave of hysteria that quickly spread throughout colonial Massachusetts. Another 150 men, women and children were accused in the spring of 1692, and were only spared the gallows by confessing.
Source - https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/11-shocking-moments-in-history/
A horror that shocked the world, the Salem witch trials have spawned hundreds of films, books, scholarly articles and plays, including Arthur Miller’s acclaimed 1953 work The Crucible.
The executed men and women were convicted on the spurious evidence of a group of young village girls who claimed to have been bewitched.
Paranoia, fed by ongoing family feuds and attacks by Native Americans, developed into a wave of hysteria that quickly spread throughout colonial Massachusetts. Another 150 men, women and children were accused in the spring of 1692, and were only spared the gallows by confessing.
Source - https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/11-shocking-moments-in-history/
On the morning of 19 May 1536, Henry VIII’s second wife, Anne Boleyn, became the first English queen to be publicly executed. Charged with adultery, incest and conspiring the king’s death, Anne was beheaded on a scaffold erected on Tower Green, within the walls of the Tower of London. Her death, says historian Suzannah Lipscomb, “is so familiar to us that it is hard to imagine how shocking it would have been”.
Anne and Henry had been married for little more than three years at the time of her death. For her, Henry had left his wife of nearly 24 years and the mother of his child (the future Mary I), and broken with the Catholic Church. By the spring of 1536, however, Henry’s affection had waned and he was hotly pursuing Anne’s lady-in-waiting, Jane Seymour.
Along with five courtiers, including Anne’s brother, George, Anne was arrested and imprisoned in the Tower of London in early May 1536. Mark Smeaton, William Brereton, Francis Weston and Henry Norris were tried and found guilty of adultery with the queen, and of conspiring the king’s death, while Anne and her brother were found guilty of high treason. By 19 May, all six convicted had been executed.
Reporting on Anne’s execution in 1536, Eustace Chapuys, the Spanish ambassador to Henry’s court, wrote: “No one ever shewed more courage or greater readiness to meet death than she did”.
Today, nearly 500 years after her execution, historians cannot agree why Anne had to die. This episode of Witness explores Anne’s final hours and considers why she was executed…
Source - https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/11-shocking-moments-in-history/
Anne and Henry had been married for little more than three years at the time of her death. For her, Henry had left his wife of nearly 24 years and the mother of his child (the future Mary I), and broken with the Catholic Church. By the spring of 1536, however, Henry’s affection had waned and he was hotly pursuing Anne’s lady-in-waiting, Jane Seymour.
Along with five courtiers, including Anne’s brother, George, Anne was arrested and imprisoned in the Tower of London in early May 1536. Mark Smeaton, William Brereton, Francis Weston and Henry Norris were tried and found guilty of adultery with the queen, and of conspiring the king’s death, while Anne and her brother were found guilty of high treason. By 19 May, all six convicted had been executed.
Reporting on Anne’s execution in 1536, Eustace Chapuys, the Spanish ambassador to Henry’s court, wrote: “No one ever shewed more courage or greater readiness to meet death than she did”.
Today, nearly 500 years after her execution, historians cannot agree why Anne had to die. This episode of Witness explores Anne’s final hours and considers why she was executed…
Source - https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/11-shocking-moments-in-history/
FUCK MY PARENTS MAN! Just because my room isn't fucking spotless, that doesn't make me LAZY or DISGUSTING! Excuse me, but I remember this being MY room, if you don't like how it looks, STAY OUT OF IT! And even though I didn't see trash on the floor also does not make me lazy, I DIDN'T SEE IT SO HOW THE FUCK WAS I SUPPOSE TO PICK IT UP?! If I forgot something, THEN I FORGOT! I AM NOT MAKING EXCUSES! And I AM NOT CLEANING UP AFTER YOU! Like you tell me to clean up after myself, BUT YOU DON'T EVEN GET UP TO PUT YOUR CUP IN THE SINK??? I just-
Does anyone's parents call you lazy a lot, even though you're practically doing everything?
Does anyone's parents call you lazy a lot, even though you're practically doing everything?
The remains were most commonly ground up into a fine powder that could be made into pills or stirred into drinks like hot chocolate! People thought that ingesting a certain part of the body would help to cure illnesses in that part of
their own, for example crushed skull powder was believed to cure headaches.
Mummy remains were particularly valued as remedies – in fact, there are so few mummies these days precisely because of this high demand for human flesh at the time.
Source - https://www.buzzfeed.com/valezabakolli/disturbing-historical-facts
their own, for example crushed skull powder was believed to cure headaches.
Mummy remains were particularly valued as remedies – in fact, there are so few mummies these days precisely because of this high demand for human flesh at the time.
Source - https://www.buzzfeed.com/valezabakolli/disturbing-historical-facts
At the time the mortality rate was so high that doctors weren’t always present to make sure the patient was actually dead, so witnesses would often take the apparent lack of breathing or a pulse as enough of a confirmation.
The problem got so bad that people started taking additional measures to make sure the corpse was dead before burying them, including shouting in their ear, sticking needles under their toenails, and whipping them with nettles.
In Germany they went a step further, and set up ‘hospitals for the dead’ to observe the rotting process before the bodies were buried. Some of these were around till the 1950s!
Source - https://www.buzzfeed.com/valezabakolli/disturbing-historical-facts
The problem got so bad that people started taking additional measures to make sure the corpse was dead before burying them, including shouting in their ear, sticking needles under their toenails, and whipping them with nettles.
In Germany they went a step further, and set up ‘hospitals for the dead’ to observe the rotting process before the bodies were buried. Some of these were around till the 1950s!
Source - https://www.buzzfeed.com/valezabakolli/disturbing-historical-facts
so im curious.. who ever created us decided that "i will give the male sex a glizzy with cheese on the tip.. put some sprinkles and boom i will name it penis" like they gotta be so stupid... and then i thought.. why did they give the female sex a hotdog bun as a private part (dont forget the sprinkles and make it the same skin of the inside of your cheeks) theyre stupid asf and they even gave them names like wtf?!?!?! THEY EVEN ADDED SPRINKLES,, and boom they thought "Instead of making it look how they should i will make them look nasty and slimy" LIKE BRO thats gross
This case of star-crossed lovers got weird fast. In fourteenth-century Portugal, the king’s son, Don Pedro, fell in love with Inês de Castro. There were only a couple of problems with this: for one, his father, King Afonso IV, did not approve, because Inês was illegitimate.
For another, Don Pedro was married. His father had arranged for him to marry a noblewoman named Constanza. Inês was Constanza’s lady-in-waiting. When Don Pedro refused to stop seeing her, the king had her killed.
When Don Pedro acceded to the throne two years later, he exhumed her body, had it clothed in royal dress, and “crowned” her queen. According to historical legend, he made the other nobles all kiss her hand as a sign of their devotion. These are the history questions everyone gets wrong.
Source - https://www.rd.com/list/disturbing-history-facts/
For another, Don Pedro was married. His father had arranged for him to marry a noblewoman named Constanza. Inês was Constanza’s lady-in-waiting. When Don Pedro refused to stop seeing her, the king had her killed.
When Don Pedro acceded to the throne two years later, he exhumed her body, had it clothed in royal dress, and “crowned” her queen. According to historical legend, he made the other nobles all kiss her hand as a sign of their devotion. These are the history questions everyone gets wrong.
Source - https://www.rd.com/list/disturbing-history-facts/
During Pope Gregory IX’s term, he declared that cats were associated with devil worship, resulting in their mass extermination.
Ironically, it is believed that this large-scale expunging of felines helped to spread the Bubonic Plague, which ravaged Europe in the 1300s and killed over a hundred million people. No cats meant the rat population (which carried the plague) ran wild.
Source - https://twentytwowords.com/insanely-creepy-historical-facts-they-never-taught-you-in-school/
Ironically, it is believed that this large-scale expunging of felines helped to spread the Bubonic Plague, which ravaged Europe in the 1300s and killed over a hundred million people. No cats meant the rat population (which carried the plague) ran wild.
Source - https://twentytwowords.com/insanely-creepy-historical-facts-they-never-taught-you-in-school/
I'm always looking for taboo, retro stylized series to get into because the art is very distinct for the era and there's a certain dynamic between the characters that doesn't happen today.
Think Kaze to Ki no Uta, Zetsuai 1989, that kind of thing.
Think Kaze to Ki no Uta, Zetsuai 1989, that kind of thing.