Cannibalism & Witchcraft: The True Story of "Hansel and Gretel"

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music:
Arietta Op. 12 Nr. 1 - Edvard Grieg
Cello Concerto Op. 85 In E Minor, Op. 85 I. Adagio - Edward Elgar
Sarabandes - Erik Satie
Sonata No. 14 In C Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 'Moonlight' - Ludwig van Beethoven
Swan Lake Dance of the Little Swans Act II - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Trollmors Vaggsang
sources:
retrospectjournal.com/2016/10...
www.science.smith.edu/climate....
Lucas, Henry S. (October 1930). "The great European Famine of 1315, 1316, 1317"
Nelson, Dr. Lynn H. "The Great Famine and the Black Death 1315-1317, 1346-1351"
www.neh.gov/humanities/2015/m....

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@ctubbs8715 Жыл бұрын

It is easy to take the abundance of the modern world for granted. It's scary to think that if our food ran out, we all could be back in the same situation as Hansel and Gretel 's parents in a short time.

@HorsesOnYT Жыл бұрын

Well said for sure

@Iudicatio 10 ай бұрын

It is apparently already happening in Nort Korea

@jonathanguzman3044 10 ай бұрын

The alleged "abundance of the modern world" is taking a long time to reach the 3rd world. Plenty of people still starving out there. I think you're referring to first world abundance that depends on the looting and pillaging of the third world

@ryanpmcguire 9 ай бұрын

@@jonathanguzman3044please explain how our wealth depends on taking wealth from third world countries

@jonathanguzman3044 9 ай бұрын

@ryanpmcguire it's a lengthy historical development to describe but I'll try to summarize key details. Its started with the age of colonial empires. Western euorpane nations that would eventually become the 1st world conquered, looted, and raped entire continents and parts of Asia such as India and Vietnam primarily due to a huge technologicaladvantage. After sucking out resources and wealth from these places that would eventually become the 3rd world, the west allowed them to become. " independent" but still held great influence and control over their economy. Sometimes the 3rd world goes too far to act in their own interest, so the west intervenes with regime change to install a political leader that is more friendly to western business interests. Key examples of 3rd world countries having their resources and wealth exported to the 1st world are Dole(standard fruit company) in Central America, lithium extraction in Bolivia, and cobalt extraction in the Congo

@everettlopez9127 9 ай бұрын

you have the perfect voice for video essays. these tales of child cannibalism are so soothing to my ears

@kid_icarus1721 9 ай бұрын

Hannibal this you?

@daniellewillis2767 9 ай бұрын

I think it's unsaid that the mother was the witch. Please do the Juniper Tree and The Army Surgeons, also the Jew Among Thorns (early anti Semetic tale, really bad)

@mrjon75 9 ай бұрын

Maybe you're a descendant of the Aztec?

@dillonwalshpvd 9 ай бұрын

Horses. Horses.

@jenniferflores3360 9 ай бұрын

@@kid_icarus1721😂👍

@karennorris7880 9 ай бұрын

This story frightened me as a child. In the version I'm familiar with, Hansel would trick the which into thinking he was not yet fattened up by using a stick to fool the blind witch into thinking it was his finger. Little Red Riding Hood scared me also.

@deadpearls 8 ай бұрын

do you know that fairy tale about pauline who ended up literally being cremated because she used matches? the reason i didnt dare to touch matches until i was 7 lmao

@azap1378 8 ай бұрын

@@nobody98368 I guess the fairy tale worked then, maybe scarring children is indeed the way to go.

@loucorice 8 ай бұрын

To scare you even more: In the version I know it's not a stick, rather a bone. (The witch served Hensel meat earlier and he used one of the bones)

@mini_skinny0296 8 ай бұрын

@@azap1378Maybe it was a way to make them cautious with strangers.

@genericamerican7574 8 ай бұрын

I read the original little mermaid 🧜‍♀️ when I was a kid pre Disney version. It doesn’t turn out for her. It stuck with me to this day for some reason. I was at the beach last week and when the fog lifted and the sun started to hit the water I started saying to the person I was with, “have you ever heard the original little mermaid? 🧜‍♀️ She dies at the end. Cursed to be the shimmering reflection in the ocean.🌊” history was brutal.

@julienicol9202 9 ай бұрын

I took a German fairy tale course in university, what is interesting is that originally the Brothers Grimm didn’t intend on having the stories be for children but they did eventually in later years publish a book intended for children as well as others copying the stories and publishing them too, this didn’t change much of the violence in the stories though. In actuality a lot of stories that later became fairytales were originally intended for an adult audience and contained a lot of sexual references and innuendos, the Brothers Grimm changed the stories so all of the sexual stuff was gone because they were scholars in good standing and very religious (they put a lot of Christian symbols in their versions of fairy tales, like sightings of doves by characters etc) and didn’t mind the violence but the sexual stuff was very much a no no for them. This makes sense in the context of them being very familiar with the bible and the violence in it. The violence in their stories is either “well deserved” in their eyes as in “God punishes the bad and evil characters for their sins” or it’s pointed out that it’s wrong and the good characters get saved somehow for the most part. I’m not saying that it’s a good thing that they left it in I just think that somethings would fly back then that would not today. Us and the Brothers Grimm live in vastly different times in lots of aspects. Edit: Also they usually changed the “bad mothers” or “evil mothers” to “step mothers” because they loved their own mother so much and didn’t want anyone to even have a chance to think that they may not like their own mother, they always wanted to honour her.

@andrefilipe9042 9 ай бұрын

Interesting, are any of the original unaltered versions of the stories stored somewhere?

@julienicol9202 9 ай бұрын

@@andrefilipe9042 I’m sure that they are documented somewhere, just not by the Brothers Grimm. There are also probably several different versions of the original vulgar stories since they were primarily told by word of mouth rather then read and written down, they were usually tavern/drinking stories of the common folk but also in latter years more sanitized and told to royalty and aristocracy by servants who were common folk themselves,like the man who is usually referenced as the origin of the story of Cinderella, Charles Perrault.

@andrefilipe9042 9 ай бұрын

@@julienicol9202 Ahh I see. Thank you very much.

@dwaynebrice1697 9 ай бұрын

❤ well said.

@DoloresLehmann 9 ай бұрын

@@andrefilipe9042 The stories I know about are the original version of "Little Red Riding Hood" which actually ends with the wolf eating the girl. The Brothers Grimm didn't want it to end that way, so they took the ending of "The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats" and pasted it to the story. Then there's the fact that "true love's first kiss" practically never is a way to save anyone. In "The Frog Prince", the princess doesn't kiss the frog to turn him back into a prince, she throws him against the wall. In "Snow White", the prince just falls in love with the beautiful dead princess and asks the dwarfs if he can have her. In an attempt to transport the glass coffin, it falls down and breaks, and through the impact, the bit of poisonous apple falls out of her throat and she awakens. In "Sleeping Beauty", it's not a prince, it's actually a king that finds her, and he doesn't kiss her, he just plainly r*apes her. She goes on sleeping and gives birth to twins, one of which, while trying to find the mother's breast, sucks on her finger and thus takes the splinter out, awakening her. In the absolutely darkest version, she then tries to find the father of her children, and succeeds only for the king's wife to get jealous, take her kids from her, cook them and serve them up to her unfaithful husband in revenge.

@radioruin 9 ай бұрын

The evil step mother trope is WAAAAY older than that. it’s a trope in ancient Roman literature

@chriswaters2327 8 ай бұрын

Why is there no evil stepfather stories?

@Foxaris 8 ай бұрын

@@chriswaters2327Women were pretty much the property of their husband, so the father wasn't really viewed as evil no matter how he treated his wife and children.

@kiwiingenuity6666 8 ай бұрын

Glad the step mother narrative has changed these days

@bruhray1139 8 ай бұрын

@@kiwiingenuity6666changed into fucking porn

@coyotemojo 8 ай бұрын

It's probably rooted in an Indo-European myth about the winter crone trying to hold off the spring maiden

@heidismutti 9 ай бұрын

Stepmothers were super common as so many women died in childbirth. The stepmother was eager to do away with the OG children do her own children could inherit better.

@fajaradi1223 8 ай бұрын

Understandable, but yet unacceptable

@rhuttrho88 8 ай бұрын

What if she died too? Another young wife for Ole boy!😁

@Lokian_Mermaid 8 ай бұрын

Yes, but in many of the original stories, the birth mothers were alive and they were the ones being jealous of their children and harming them. The stories changed the mother to stepmother because the idea of birth mothers being so horrid to their children was a bit hard to take..... Even though it's happened and still does. Originally, Cinderella's father was alive, but constantly too drunk to know what was going on in his own home to his own daughter.

@cincin4515 8 ай бұрын

You been watching too much Disney.

@ericcartman9594 8 ай бұрын

In the animal kingdom often happens that the stepfsther kills the kids to get the femanle to procreate

@erikgilson1687 9 ай бұрын

Where did Hansel get the breadcrumbs if they were starving. Sounds like he was holding out on bread he'd stashed

@KassandraFuria13 9 ай бұрын

Starving does not mean that you have nothing to eat at all !

@erikgilson1687 9 ай бұрын

@@KassandraFuria13 Hansel and Gretel literally were put out into the woods because their parents couldn't feed them

@KassandraFuria13 9 ай бұрын

@@erikgilson1687 not enough food for all, but there was a little food.

@erikgilson1687 9 ай бұрын

@@KassandraFuria13 I'm joking it's a fairy tail, I am not seriously poking holes in a children's story

@KassandraFuria13 9 ай бұрын

@@erikgilson1687 🥰, but it is not only a childrens story and I think it is much older than it is told here. Full of archetypes. I am German by the way and grown up with all these tales. I think children learn a lot out of it and get a lot of strengh ! I remember talking with my patient grandma about it after listening . Her answers to my questions and her reaction to my feelings were lessons for me. That makes it so wonderful to tell these stories to children. You take so much out of their expression and questions either and thus telling the story it is always a fresh and a new experience. You must respect childrens spirit seriously !

@kitten_0078 9 ай бұрын

5:06 the music in the background is called Trollmors Vaggvisa and is a Swedish lullaby. My mother always used to sing it to me and my brother. It's about a troll mother singing to her 11 small trolls to sleep basically.

@bossdogs9199 8 ай бұрын

If you can tell me the name of the music at 1.30 I'd be in your debt

@noeliarocio4367 9 ай бұрын

The only difference with my version of the story is that it was the stepmother the one who pushed her husband to abandon the kids. The rest is the same, so dark!

@michaelwatson5000 8 ай бұрын

The brothers Grimm’s tales went through several editions fairly quickly when they were first published. Starting right after the first edition, Wilhelmina Grimm began sanitizing the stories, making them less jarring to readers. As a part of this, the evil mother in many stories became evil stepmothers (this is from the forward to the English language translation of the first edition by Jack Zipes.)

@basquiatHoover 3 ай бұрын

Who gives asf! Everything ain’t gender based just enjoy the story man

@jimmyjimmy7240 10 ай бұрын

It wasn't "shockingly common," it was "expectedly rare." There are very few accounts of cannibalism we have on record or through folk tale. During the great famine, that last a couple years, there are accounts of cannibalism, for example, although the specifics are often left out. I dig your platform, though. Cool video style.

@GoneNForgotten 9 ай бұрын

Yes because people eating their family members were telling the world about it and writing stories

@jimmyjimmy7240 9 ай бұрын

@@GoneNForgotten yeah, surviving family members, neighbors, government officials. Same way we learn about everything else throughout history.

@juniorjames7076 9 ай бұрын

@@jimmyjimmy7240 The b.s. euro-propaganda passed off as "history" is only currently believed by either small children and the small minded such as yourself.

@diejaykaynz3r078 9 ай бұрын

i guess we can never confirm how often this happened, but i dont think it was that rare. there were dead people everywhere and even people selling meat saying it came from animals.. hunger is a crazy force which can make you do unimaginable things...

@jimmyjimmy7240 9 ай бұрын

@@diejaykaynz3r078 yeah, I think that's fair. We can't know for sure. I still think "common" is a bit hyperbolic.

@TheVioletWolf 8 ай бұрын

I wonder… my ex-husband used to work as a neurodiagnostics tech in a children’s hospital, and most of the “non-accidental trauma” done to children were of the step dads or the mom’s boyfriends… but that’s because a lot of the mothers of these poor babies were working while the guy was a home watching them. Back when the evil stepmother trope came about is because then it was 100% likely that men worked and women stay back to care for the kiddies.

@MollyMcBooter 8 ай бұрын

That's so sad. Your husband must be really strong. I don't think I could deal with seeing kids in that state, especially knowing it's not an accident 😢

@MarkelMathurin 4 ай бұрын

@@MollyMcBooterex*

@Huh.bruh. 8 ай бұрын

I remember back when I was in highschool back in the 1960s. Our history teacher taught us everything one needs to know about cannibalism. He was an exchange teacher visiting Australia for two years. He travelled all over the world teaching History and English literature. Learning other countries cultures. His knowledge on cannibalism was very detailed. Very detailed. The kids teased him about him being a caninabal he didn't deny it, said New Guinea was a good hunting spot.his knowledge on Mythology was also amazing.

@HmsCsi 5 ай бұрын

lmao wtf, cannibal teacher #1

@henkdachief 4 ай бұрын

so what is the perfect way to prepare the meat?

@terrellkane369 2 ай бұрын

@@henkdachiefSoufflé it but cook it slow human meat has a sweet taste too it but when cook fast at high temperatures can Give it more can change the taste of it

@ThatOneMarveller 11 ай бұрын

I am truly shocked that you aren’t super popular by now. Your content is amazing. Thank you for posting. You will be very big very soon.

@mitcheltse 11 ай бұрын

i thought this would be a KZfaqr with millions of subscribers

@juniorjames7076 9 ай бұрын

Opposite. This is the kind of content that gets de-monetized. This is not the narrative the West wants to know.

@Starr_Apathy 9 ай бұрын

@@mitcheltsethey really should be! I think it's because ppl aren't sharing his work. It's so consistently good!

@GuinessOriginal 9 ай бұрын

@@mitcheltseit’s as good as Lemino imo. Certainly up there.

@timmuller5249 9 ай бұрын

The so called facts in the video are 90% bs

@kle1225 Жыл бұрын

Fascinating backstory! It’s so interesting to see how oral traditions change over time based on cultural norms and beliefs; and how the renditions are exemplary of the different times and places of societies. Those picture are freaking awesome

@henkdachief 4 ай бұрын

i was waiting the whole video for the real story behind the cookie house, which is the most interesting part and instead he talks about patriachy!

@Kannot2023 7 ай бұрын

The purpose of fairy tales is to prepare kids for life not to entertain.

@Aivottaja 9 ай бұрын

There is a harrowing account of cannibalism from my neck of the woods during the Great Famine Of 1695-1697. A mother murdered her 6 year old daughter and had her son kill his 7 year old brother who were both eaten. They also killed and ate a boy who was looking for food.

@bdbdkbdbd 8 ай бұрын

omg wtf

@nyxeo 8 ай бұрын

Familytings 😘

@MR-backup 8 ай бұрын

I just don't understand it, in any scenario, I would just rather die.

@ahhamartin 8 ай бұрын

It also happened durimg sieges. Even the generally, historically accepted parts of the Bible mention it. The woman who complained to the king that her friend suggested they eat the first woman's child first and then her own, but hid her own after helpimg eat the first child.

@Aivottaja 7 ай бұрын

@@MR-backup Starvation will make you do things you would never even consider when you're not starving.

@philr5497 8 ай бұрын

My mother was German and had a book of fables that terrified me. Two tales I remember (I'm70 ) were the schnitermiester, a scary guy with huge scissors that cut thumbsucker's thumbs off with an illustration of a geyser of blood shooting out of a crying kid's thumb that just got whacked and another about a boy whom always looked up until he walked off the end of a pier and drowned. While still in Germany my older (7yrs) brother was stuffed in a bag and carried away by Krampus. He complained about that until the day he passed.

@ninalanwert4298 4 ай бұрын

Hey, did you mean "struwelpeter"? Like the short story collection? I'm German and we still have that book in the children's book section, even though no one reads those terrifying Storys to their children anymore. But at 21, my friends and I remember being read that by our (grand-) parents. It's more of a cultural thing know.

@msdd7610 4 ай бұрын

@@ninalanwert4298 I'm not German but lived there between the ages of 15months and 9 and a half years old, and yeah the Struwwelpeter book/collection of stories was present in my childhood - I hated both the Daumenlutscher story and the one of the girl who burnt herself down cause she kept playing with matchsticks

@YujiroHanmaaaa 4 ай бұрын

Struwwelpeter is his name not Schnitermiester

@philr5497 3 ай бұрын

@@YujiroHanmaaaa yes

@rickwrites2612 9 ай бұрын

The medieval period is 476 to 1453 AD from the fall of Rome to the fall of Byzantiym. *The medieval church did not believe in witches* the medieval inquisitions and burnings were about *heresey* (professing a version of Christianity with any deviation from the Church's doctrine) and even that was mostly in high/late middle ages (after 1100), as previously the clergy had debates with heretics (but kept losing the debates, so decided to change tack to killing them). In Rennaissance period In 1486-1529 two German priests Kramer and later Spraeger published Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches) trying to say demonalatry and sorcery were taking place especially among women and to categorize them as forms of heresey (which was already illegal and could result in being burnt alive). Its basically Kramer having issues about sex and women with an obvious torture kink. Even then the Catholic Church CONDEMNED the idea and book (maybe why the book became popular) and held a tribunal which was suspended due to Kramers obsession with sexual practices of alleged witches and his own illegalities. It was only in the EARLY MODERN PERIOD of 1600s that the book resurfaced and its methods really began to be widely employed. Even then, it wasnt so much the Church that sought after witches (they were still much more concerned with heretics) but the regular people. It was essentially a hysterical populist movement.

@juniorjames7076 9 ай бұрын

In Spain, I believe the context of their inquisition was a cover for political purging, since back then, religion and nationalism was intertwined. During the Reconquista, wars and battles were lost due to Muslim, Jewish and Christian spies. Heck, the Ottomans took Constantinople with the help of Christian spies at their service.

@esti-od1mz 9 ай бұрын

As a matter of fact, in Italy almost no witch was killed. It was more of a german thing...

@tophatproductions3031 9 ай бұрын

Yeah, Americans who make videos like this tend to ride roughshod over certain details to fit their own understandings of politics and culture. Another commenter pointed out that "Germany" was not a national entity at this point in time. The references to "politicians" and the "working class" in 13thc. Europe are also just laughable. Also, where did he get the idea that agriculture was only just spreading to Europe by then? A really good style and presentation on these videos, but the author or his scriptwriter need to brush up and stop pandering to an ill-educated Yankee crowd.

@franciscasilva8406 9 ай бұрын

Thank you! So many misleading things in this video, like the idea that cannibalism was "common", it's a shame the misinformation that is being praised because of good visuals and high production value. The investigative part of it is certainly lacking.

@channel1344 9 ай бұрын

The moment the narrator said "witch hunt", I already knew what angle this video was going for. Very disappointing.

@PySimpleGUI 9 ай бұрын

Continuing my swim upstream finding more great writing and art. Every video is incredibly educational and overflows with compassion. Keep letting it flow! 🧡

@RugMann 9 ай бұрын

You should read a brochure sometime it'll be 3x as informative as this 11 minute video

@PJM257 3 ай бұрын

who runs this account and whose money was spent on this lol

@AzuraTarot 9 ай бұрын

as others have already commented, cannibalism was exceedingly rare, even during the greatest famines. The reason why the hags or witches of folk tales are so keen on catching and eating children (or people in general) is that originally, they weren't human at all, they were fairies, just like many hags of celtic folklore. That's where their magic powers come from. Gradually, some of the fairy hags, able to fly and cast spells, were replaced or thought to be human women who sold their soul to the "devil" (invariably a fae-like figure based on celtic and other pagan deities), even though clearly, no human woman has any of the powers commonly ascribed to (real, supernatural) witches. Maybe because the officials needed some scapegoats to burn, and catching a supernatural entity is rather difficult :P

@krishadyn5211 8 ай бұрын

While some critters (like goblins) remain critters, I'm told the human like fae are usually gods of older pantheons.

@JinMeowsoon 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the info, I didn’t consider it that way, I knew druids and animal forests were vilified. The Catholic Church worked really hard to get the monopole on religious beliefs…

@MalO.ver1.0.x 9 ай бұрын

The original stories behind a lot of those fairy tales are sometimes more wicked and disturbing than anyone could ever imagine.

@Maxaldojo 10 ай бұрын

An interesting dichotomy... A story about horrific and tragic children's stories told through artistic images, classical music and an articulate monologue! Well done!

@VideoDotGoogleDotCom 8 ай бұрын

Love the art style.

@Kai_Peters 7 ай бұрын

AI slop

@sirgavalot 9 ай бұрын

While this could easily be an audio only podcast, the choice or art work and type face through this video (and others) is amazing, i love it. Are any of the pieces original?

@Pixelarity64 9 ай бұрын

I'm thinking they are AI generated! They are high-quality, though.

@eingrobernerzustand3741 9 ай бұрын

I mean, Hänsel und Gretel we're made during the 1600s, during the thirty years war. Atleast, that's what's generally claimed where I live. But yeah, while my home was spared of witchmania, we suffered pretty badly during the war, so it's no wonder that even if it's from the 1300s, people who heard about it after the 30 years war broke out would assume it's about that war. I still can't help but doubt the medival interpretation tough, after all, 1300s was far before Luther popularized witches. Most folktales from that period had the devil making deals and bets, not witches. Papal authority was strong enough that superstition was still a punishable offense, as a precursor crime to heresy.

@TheCzarsoham Жыл бұрын

Very well narrated, visuals are amazing, and really puts a lot more things in context!

@palpatine152 4 ай бұрын

I just got introduced to your channel, and I want to say that I find your content, not only very well told and interesting, but very calming. I am going through a very stressed and sleep depraved period, and your videos helped me gain some sleep and rest. Keep up with a great work! You have brilliant narration and ideas!

@TashfikalSami 8 ай бұрын

I felt mesmerised watching the video. It's so well made, full of immaculate artistic visuals, with befitting background scores to amplify the experience. Absolutely loved it

@Tommuli_Haudankaivaja 9 ай бұрын

Napoleon didn't invade and fracture a "country" called Germany. Germany didn't exist until the end of the Franco-Prussian war in the 1870s. Germany, during the invasions of Napoleon, were hundreds of vaguely allied kingdoms, duchies, and principalities. Napoleon actually condensed Germany into a few states. Other than that, very entertaining and informative video. The mistake is easy to make, since the modern people we are, tend to simplify things like the HRE.

@BigKnecht 9 ай бұрын

...he said while grossly simplifying the collective german identity of the HRE.

@Tommuli_Haudankaivaja 9 ай бұрын

@@BigKnecht I'm not going to write a 10 page essay on the HRE here. He could've just said that Napoleon invaded the German people or that he invaded the HRE. It wasn't really the point of the video, so some simplification is acceptable, but just saying a plainly incorrect thing isn't good.

@riccardodececco4404 9 ай бұрын

@blueyedevil3479 9 ай бұрын

If “Germany” did not yet exist … how is he suppose to refer to them as “the German people”

@Tommuli_Haudankaivaja 9 ай бұрын

@@blueyedevil3479 Because the German people is an ethnicity, that has been around for centuries, unlike the country of Germany.

@HaterOfNaturalThings 10 ай бұрын

your production and quality is absolutely amazing, so happy to find your channel! keep it up

@coltonlavely4162 9 ай бұрын

I really appreciate the use of more and more recent typefaces to illustrate the passage of time, that's real nice.

@garlicbread301 7 ай бұрын

This’s by far one of the best videos I’ve seen. Great voice for narrative, awesome animation. Everything’s “chef’s kiss”

@serendipity4922 8 ай бұрын

The paintings, art, and presentations are just so beautiful 🥺 u earned a subscriber from this single video 🎉

@nickchambers3935 9 ай бұрын

1:04 “Napoleon successfully invaded Germany and fragmented the country”. What does this mean when Germany wasn’t a unified country at the time? How could it be even more fragmented than it was before?

@solidsteak3142 7 ай бұрын

Germany was the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation at the time. Meaning that essentialy all Germans were untited in one Reich under one German (Roman) Kaiser. Friedrich ll. Barbarossa being the most prominet example. The people back then considered themselves german, living in a german reich, under a german Kaiser. Naopleon came and destroyed the HRE. Annexing part of it and forcing parts of it under his rule, even forcing them to fight against thier own german brothers.

@JinMeowsoon 5 ай бұрын

@@solidsteak3142 Dont you agree this content creator should have said HRE instead of Germany then? There are so many approximations on this channel.

@Zerkzeez 9 ай бұрын

Glad I discovered this channel. Interesting content, great art style, and the videos are brief.

@judebreheny3925 4 ай бұрын

The story of Hansel and Gretel is not a true story. But it was first created and told within a completely genuine and entirely true historical context. It is a faithful reflection of the 1310s. This is a story published for academics. This is a work of history, not fiction.

@martijnboot4971 9 ай бұрын

Your references to times in history are way off. Napoleon didn't shatter Germany, you could argue he even made it more united than it was. Also, agriculture spreading through Europe in the 13th century? So what did Romans eat?

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What a nice channel have I found. Finally some good content talking about very specific themes

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I just discovered this channel yesterday, and it alone is worth continuing my KZfaq subscription.

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Well done... your voice, delivery and these illustrations are wondrous!

@teutonalex 9 ай бұрын

I think you meant the 16 and 17th century’s witch craze. The middle ages saw virtually no witch burnings as we understand them today. Since this time did indeed see increased famine and war in Europe and since the vast cases of accusations were brought by women against other women, it is thought that competition anxiety over dwindling resources may have played a part in the developing mass hysteria.

@genghiskhan5701 8 ай бұрын

Witch craze was also mostly an Anglo and German thing. There was practically zero witch burnings in Italy and Spain, since they mostly focused on cracking down heresy. Believing in witches will actually get you more in trouble than being accused as a witch

@tjpassig208 8 ай бұрын

Exactly thank you it’s also a misconception that Germans canabalized their children etc folklore is fabrication this guy is trying to breath life it to something that never existed, if they were that starving they would have resorted to eating dogs pets and rats.

@chrisrauber6602 8 ай бұрын

This tuber is indeed a good example for bad or no academic research. Well, even "google" might help such guys....

@luis6263 6 ай бұрын

THANK YOU i thought nobody was noticing that

@conexant51 9 ай бұрын

Strong similarities between folktales are logical when cultures are not geographically far apart like Germany and Italy. However, there is a Vietnamese folktale called Tấm and Cám that is eerily similar to Cindarella. Vietnam and Europe are definitely not geographically close. My guess is that many folktales just happen to converge through intrinsic values of right and wrong and end up similar by coincidence. Another possibility is that some folktales are spread through merchants or similar. Just a thought. *Edit* Typos

@Pollicina_db 9 ай бұрын

There are many version of cinderella, you have the chinese one with the fish and fur slippers, the ancient Egyptian one where cinderella was a greek slave who ended up marrying the pharaoh and so on.

@stevebruce7206 9 ай бұрын

Carl Jung posited "collective unconcious"

@symoneayanna3570 9 ай бұрын

I agree, it’s like moral and ethical reasoning is universal. I always found it fascinating that every ancient civilization has a story about the Great Flood.

@tiahnarodriguez3809 9 ай бұрын

Collective moral consciousness, and/or someone from one culture went to another culture, and both shared their culture. We see this with food, ideas, and goods due to trade that occurred between certain nations in the past, so I’m sure this also holds true for some of the fairy tales and legends.

@mannytuzo 9 ай бұрын

@@symoneayanna3570that’s because there was a real Great Flood in history but as with most stories, it is exaggerated in those stories

@frightfang 9 ай бұрын

I just happened to stumble upon this channel the other day and I’m really happy I did.

@RemaiHax 9 ай бұрын

During the late Middle Ages (the period in question here) rural societies came with a lot of imagination to justify child slaughter during hard winters or famines. We don't know a lot about these rituals (because nothing was written about them, they were kept secret by villagers), however we do have a very specific description of one particular, central France ritual. Whenever someone (mostly mothers) wanted to abandon their child, they would gather other villagers and take the child to the forest. There, they took the child through certain trees, walking around them with them. When it was over, they let the child to his death, but they believed (or convinced them so) that little dwarfs and spirits of the forests would turn them in "changelins", a type of dwarf that belonged to the forest. The Church started to know about these rituals and punish some of these villagers accused by burying them alive (that was the sentence for child murder)

@Nirrini 8 ай бұрын

I’m siding with the church on that definitely.

@gimmekromer1151 Ай бұрын

thats fake and thats not even what a changeling is

@n00bJesus 9 ай бұрын

I love this idea of the revealing the truths behind old ‘children stories’. Subbed! Awesome vid.

@maeri6040 10 ай бұрын

I absolutely LOVE YOUR VIDEOS. Just found your channel and am so happy

@jbstarkiller4626 8 ай бұрын

This video seems to follow a lot of the tropes and misconceptions about witches/witch hunts that are very common in pop culture but with very little historical backing

@casieatthe3937 8 ай бұрын

I just discovered your channel recently and it’s my new favorite.

@LSSJTHOR 10 ай бұрын

Being torn apart by wild animals is more humane then starving? !🤣 I'm German but even I'm like "WTF Germany!?"

@DerPijO 10 ай бұрын

I think stigmatising and people and modern witchhunts are still very common here. At least in some villages, maybe its in the genetics :D Feels like people are more direct because irritation can lead to misunderstandings and fights back in barbaric villages times. It seems fear rules a lot of things in german society sadly. I mean the people are voting a far-right party like crazy, many knowing its not okay but the fear and hate took over. Its all subtle and indirect action, but its still the same or not? Hope im just seeing this to critical.

@mattdg1981 9 ай бұрын

Germans have a lousy track record lol

@rmac3217 3 ай бұрын

@@DerPijO What is 'far right' about them though? Far right to some can mean saying a man cannot get pregnant remember, or that a nation should have a border.

@rufusblue8044 10 ай бұрын

I wonder if gen z or their kids write warning tales about bad parents cannibalizing their kids metaphorically through technology

@CestMagnify 9 ай бұрын

I love love love your visuals! Thank you for your work!

@izabelm3932 2 ай бұрын

it's ai

@jaccopor8585 3 ай бұрын

I love the artwork, the timing and the whole vibe of the video!

@mgkelly3389 9 ай бұрын

I loved the art work and music! Great job!

@Big_Dog2303 8 ай бұрын

Dude. You are a SUPERB narrator. Your voice. Speed of speech, pronunciation etc etc...BEAUTIFULLY done. Love it.

@ulazuhra9277 9 ай бұрын

illustrations are amazing!! your channel is awesome

@timteichmann6830 8 ай бұрын

Great video! I absolutely love the visuals, and I got to say the narration is also great.

@maxm2656 9 ай бұрын

Idk if you have a team or what but even if you do these videos are ridiculously high quality. Everything fits perfectly the music the animations. Chefs kiss. As a side note your voice fits with the content so well. Fascinating history of world events and literature. Hope your channel picks up steam!

@damon4440 9 ай бұрын

@Evan345gdf 9 ай бұрын

@@damon4440is it actually? I won’t continue supporting if it is

@Pollicina_db 9 ай бұрын

@@Evan345gdf As someone who draws and is an art historian some of the drawings that are here might look like they have the same kind of style but you can see some nuances that indicate that its not by a hand or by one artist. Also there’s a lack of a list in which he credits the artists and I doubt he drew so many drawings that basically shows the same scene P.s: found a comment where he said he used AI

@Evan345gdf 9 ай бұрын

@@Pollicina_dbUnfortunate. I will def be unsubscribing.

@luis6263 6 ай бұрын

@@Evan345gdfits also false information, it was not normal for people in the middle ages to eat kids or hunt witches. The witch hunts were really common in the period called „Frühe Neuzeit“. The Brothers Grimm were also born much later after the middle ages, which makes most of the points in the video pretty dumb. But it has become a common thing to blame all bad characteristics and events, in human history, on the Middle Ages even though research takes a completely different point of view on this.

@julisity6640 9 ай бұрын

Truly awesome video. Great style of art, superb narration. The only thing that really grinds my German gears is the lack of a Ä in Hänsel.

@johnfarley7074 9 ай бұрын

Pretty sure it’s all AI generated art but putting it together is its own skill set.

@bedelxo482 9 ай бұрын

@@johnfarley7074I figured that as well, but it was all out together nicely

@eriktheconan 6 ай бұрын

Subscribed! I like the editing and narration style: very different from 'standard' KZfaq norms, yet very captivating and informative. I'm still working on figuring out what I prefer best for my own edits, but this is definitely inspiring.

@ethanhutchison3180 8 ай бұрын

The animation is beyond incredible. so engaging. every shot is a wallpaper

@BelakorVenator 9 ай бұрын

Carach Angren’s album This Is No Fairytale is my favorite version of this story, each track is essentially a chapter in an overarching narration.

@4kassis 8 ай бұрын

Stepmothers were often evil because they were more interested in funneling resources to their own children rather than to the kids of the previous wife... and as you said, lots of women died in childbirth, so there were many stepmothers.

@wednesdaycherenkov2633 5 ай бұрын

My stepmother is like that; it's not only in the past. When my father died, all his property went to her children. My brother and I didn't even get photos (she hates us, so I suspect she threw them away).

@jacobdowd5692 4 ай бұрын

Exactly. This is a pretty timeless and self-evident trope. The child is, quite literally, not her child.

@pernille6534 2 ай бұрын

Your voice is just great for these types of videos, especially for people where english is not their first language. It somehow keeps me listening closely - combined with the beautiful art and editing.

@anonacalypse2092 7 ай бұрын

Great narration and editing as usual!

@illuminahde 9 ай бұрын

New Sub. Screw the algorithm for just now putting this channel in my feed. This is great stuff

@miaomiaou_ 9 ай бұрын

Fantastic production quality and art direction! Also illuminating story telling:) I’m subscribing for more ♡

@davidwitkopii291 9 ай бұрын

Recently found you and its been a joy to endlessly binge watch! Content👍🤟🤙👌💯

@l4ndst4nder 8 ай бұрын

Love the minimal fauvist style art used for the background, adds so much drama and looks great!

@DarkAngelEU 9 ай бұрын

I really like your drawing/painting style. It really adds to the story and essay you're presenting :)

@runedemilot3994 9 ай бұрын

That's AI.

@playinglifeoneasy9226 8 ай бұрын

My great grandmother was a midwife in Hungary before the first world war. My grandfather would tell me the story about how when a baby was delivered, she would look up to the parents, and if they reached out for the baby she handed them the baby to start nursing, etc. but if they turned away or looked at the floor, she covered their mouth or took the baby with her to leave supposedly in the woods and

@psychedelicpayroll5412 8 ай бұрын

That’s cowardly. The parents depended on her to kill the child instead of doing it themselves.

@jujubean9142 7 ай бұрын

Your voice is unique and relaxing, love this content ❤

@salvadordollyparton666 9 ай бұрын

hansel and gretel, has a happy ending... the mother wanting to abandon the kids dies. dad gets his kids back. and makes perfect logical sense for the mother and witch to be the same person. she was the one wanting to abandon the kids, knowing they'd stumble upon her witch house. and she can't very well easily cage one and enslave the other in the house with the father.

@watertower1 10 ай бұрын

This dudes about to pop off, only has 30k subs but by like next month he’ll have 100k

@nefty1004 9 ай бұрын

100% and very well deserved

@mogitknam 9 ай бұрын

and 6 days later he has 118K lol. he is great and is growing in extraordinary speed which is definitely deserved. now i wonder how much he will have by the end of the month

@Jasbenben 8 ай бұрын

Man you like my fav channel atm your videos are beautifuly made and seems like a production of art

@TheIndependentLens 8 ай бұрын

The guy is a racist. Seriously?

@paulstoltz138 9 ай бұрын

The Elgar! It works so well in your video! My favorite concerto 😍

@Tonksters Жыл бұрын

Great video, this is insane

@kohhna 9 ай бұрын

There was a time of famine and witchunts much closer to the time of the Grimms than the 1300s, the 30 years war of 1618-48 was followed by famine and a series of witchunts.

@DoingStuffWithDiana 9 ай бұрын

Omg I’m about to binge watch this channel.

@myonlyone8713 9 ай бұрын

Loved the video. The graphics were also nice ❤

@juniorjames7076 9 ай бұрын

This was awesome but way too short!! More please.

@mrs.cracker4622 9 ай бұрын

I believe that agriculture spread across Europe way earlier than medieval times . And famines went back much further too. It's been suggested that our fairy tales date back to prehistory.

@DaisyEyes615 3 ай бұрын

amazing visuals and excellent narrating

@ironlionzion779 9 ай бұрын

I never ever ever comment on videos but god damn this is top quality content

@pakde8002 9 ай бұрын

Not mentioned a common theme through the variations of H&G is children lost in the forest. Forests were the stomping grounds of the druids.😊

@krishadyn5211 8 ай бұрын

In Germany?

@mostlymartha1395 9 ай бұрын

Well, i live in Germany, pretty close to the place where the Grimms came from and i still learn stuff about it i*ve actually never heard of by an American! That is just awesome, Dude. Big Fan of your work!

@kayamagan 6 ай бұрын

The Fur Elise playing in the background at the start sounded nice. Great video and explanation all round

@VladCodY 8 ай бұрын

One of the best channels I've seen so far: great visuals, interesting facts well told, no shitass sponsored products.

@jakemcnamee9417 9 ай бұрын

I would assume the mother or the step mother is the witch, as she died upon the return. Also I find it hard to see these households as patriarchal when the fathers are so pussy whipped into abandoning the children they don't want to abandon.

@liptoncunningham6666 9 ай бұрын

The man may have wanted to abandon his kids as well, but instead of admitting it, he blamed it on his wife, a convenient scapegoat. It's such a common trope in these stories, vs the reality of those times, that the origin of it all is likely boring old sexism, like Horse points out. In the end it's patriarchal in that the men can villainize women and continue to justify their poor treatment and lack of rights.

@krishadyn5211 8 ай бұрын

@@liptoncunningham6666A truer version of the story might be that, once out of sight of civilization, mother and father's hunger makes them the witch and the ogre. The parents literally could have a slaughter shed in the woods. The cannibalism case someone cited mentioned preying a strange child, so perhaps Hansel and Gretel were just the latest foundlings taken in and tricked into trusting their new parents. Gretel's servitude has the odd image of an apprentice, however (like a child procurer of other children) and the witch's death feels like someone tacking on a "all witches get burned so everyone is safe!" homily--with Gretel's collusion in her murder pointing how to avoid getting involved in witchcraft. Kill the witch first! Just some speculation.

@limitates6319 9 ай бұрын

liked the style of the video, thanks for producing it. The only thing wondering me is the reference to "politicians", given that during these times democracy was still far away and the power lay in monarchy / aristocracy.

@krishadyn5211 8 ай бұрын

He may refer to guilds and sheriff types rather. Some church positions are also elected.

@ericaschupbach8285 8 ай бұрын

The aestethic of your video is amazing!!!

@Maarten-Nauta 9 ай бұрын

Yet again the aesthetics of the video are amazing.

@rainboweinstein 9 ай бұрын

These illustrations are amazing; where are they from? Thanks for an awesome video; I'll have to check out more of your content! 😊

@acanimatics906 9 ай бұрын

In first or second grade our class went to see a theater production of the original story and it was just as dark as you'd described it's kind of bizzare to look back on it and wonder about how disturbing my favourite folktales actually were. Between german theater and turkish light puppet shows of similarly violent tales (that probably wouldn't fly past sensors today) it's a wonder I grew up to be as well adjusted as I am. That said I do think Introducing children to some concepts of violence through as safe a format as a story or play is actually important for their development and something they will benefit from in the long run. But that's just my personal opinion on the matter. Anyways this was a wonderful video, I believe I learned a lot from it! ❤ Ps: If you haven't done it yet I think an analysis of Frau Holle like this could be interesting as well! Eitherway keep up the good work! 😊

@loanicastillo3327 9 ай бұрын

The Old Testament is just like that. I am reading it now fully. And it is a historical recall we all need to know. We need to understand why the violence. Today we want no punishment for sin also. God has been merciful, but we were maybe best when the Lord would not. Overpopulation I think is the basic cause of all evil.

@acanimatics906 9 ай бұрын

@@loanicastillo3327 Not Christian buddy, I follow another religion. I love my community and culture but my people are very traditionalist there's a lot about the "old ways" I don't agree with especially if they strip me of my basic human rights. I'm a hobby literary historian I love analyzing old texts and I do agree that there's a lot we can learn when looking back at the wisdom of or ancestors but I find it important to not dismiss the phylosophy and wisdom of the present. There's a lot we have forgotten but there's just as much we've discovered and learned. Learn from the past but don't turn your back to the present.

@loanicastillo3327 9 ай бұрын

@@acanimatics906 Well, present philosophy is about having sex without ever being married and promoting lgbtiq ideas in public and using non organic materials like plastic that we never reuse or recycle and a lot of Industry and Zero labor and manual work in the fields just as women not being house wives anymore but workers. I find just killing people was a lot more assertive and ecological.

@carinaelizabethpaul9785 8 ай бұрын

Great videos, and i also like the proper educational knowledge in the comments and video. Im very interested in more stories, and i will be visiting previous videos. I really enjoy history and European fairytales and origins.

@ryanmckenna3088 9 ай бұрын

Well done, I loved this

@lucieciepka1031 9 ай бұрын

The part about the stepmother is due to the high mortality in childbirth. A man couldn’t care for a baby nor a child, there had to be a woman in the house. Relatives arranged swiftly such maters, “she lost her husband, you lost your wife, you are a perfect match” So bouth were filling roles in this recomposed family without consideration for grief or likings. Men who didn’t remarried were considered fouls. Single women didn’t fit the rules and roles in the village, so they often moved to the outskirts after they passed the marriage age. They consecrated their time on learning stuff instead of raising children. They knew the herbs and wiled foods, every now on then, someone will have an unwanted pregnancy and women would go to the woods in search of solution with the old woman. As abortion is a risky thing and often (as in pregnancy) women bleed to death, the old lady could end up accused of Witchcraft!