Did Flying Corpses Spread the Plague?

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**SELECTED SOURCES & ADDITIONAL READING**
"Biological Warfare at the 1346 Siege of Caffa"
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"History of biological warfare and bioterrorism"
Clinical Microbiology and Infection, Volume 20, Issue 6, June 2014, Pages 497-502
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"Catapulted Death: Can a Flying Corpse Distribute the Plague?"
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"Introduction to Weapons of Mass Destruction: Radiological, Chemical, and Biological"
R. Everett Langford. John Wiley & Sons Inc., Feb 19, 2004.
"Meet the Trebuchet, the Castle-crushing Catapult of the Middle Ages"
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@joncampos5551 3 года назад

“It’s raining plague-infested men” 🎶🎼

@Ja-uu9ep 3 года назад

Hallelujah

@DarkbutNotsinister 3 года назад

Let The Bodies Hit The Floor. It’s about the same event as “It’s Raining Men” from a different perspective.

@whoathatsanicememe3093 3 года назад

🎶tall Blonde and slightly bloated🎶🎶🎶

@victoriawilliams2786 3 года назад

@@DarkbutNotsinister 👍🤣🤣🤣🤣

@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980 3 года назад

Is it a bird? 🐦 Is it a plane? ✈ No it's a flying plauge ridden corpse! 💀🧟‍♂️🧟‍♀️

@frantichrist 3 года назад

men will see a plague infected corpse and go "is anyone going to catapult that over the walls of a sieged city" and then not wait for an answer

@Seawitch555 3 года назад

frances i’m gonna level with you right now this is the best comment i’ve ever read in my lifetime thank you

@helenl3193 3 года назад

Boys will be boys!

@Poisondreamer 3 года назад

@@helenl3193 this is what they meant when they say “Boys will be boys”

@JayShermanFJC 3 года назад

Damn straight.

@WindsofChange 3 года назад

falls over laughing with the truth of it...

@1andonlyzara 2 года назад

Caitlin: It was less “biological warfare” than it was “horror show”. Me: … So, psychological warfare.

@ghost_anna_reads787 7 месяцев назад

A two for one deal.

@yippee8570 2 года назад

"If it sneezes, it's not a corpse." This is the content I need. Thank you.

@lauverr3808 5 месяцев назад

Lmaooo

@mirriedancer 3 года назад

Honestly, if the title were “It’s Probably Rats Again”, I’d still watch. 😊

@TheMeloettaful 3 года назад

Me too lol 😂!

@adde9506 3 года назад

I definitely would. Have to find out what those darn rats did, they do so many things.

@helengazzara8725 3 года назад

Not rats actually. Supposedly a combination of gerbils and human lice

@jackieclark620 3 года назад

Yup!!!

@stephjovi 3 года назад

It's Caitlyn, I don't even read the title I see Caitlyn I watch

@allisonfitzmaurice6948 3 года назад

“You may be asking, why is Caitlin relaxing?” Maybe because she’s a funeral home director who just weathered a year and a half long pandemic in a major metropolitan area? YOU TAKE AS MUCH TIME AS YOU NEED BOO

@thebookwyrmslair6757 3 года назад

Seriously!! If research is fun and relaxing, then do it!! If you need to spend 5 days at a spa in Big Sur or Tucson, do it!!! You and your whole team deserve all the rest and peace you can find.

@helenl3193 3 года назад

Exactly!

@princeapoopoo5787 3 года назад

I've found that a good chunk of channels I follow have been going on hiatuses. Definitely not a problem if it means that they're energized and twice as engaging when they return. Caitlin especially!

@acmejia 3 года назад

YES!

@belyear 3 года назад

@@thebookwyrmslair6757 I vote Big Sur…… I get tired thinking about hanging out there.

@jennya9838 2 года назад

"In case you thought good Christians would never fight this way!". I straight up cackled.

@maryjoyspohrer256 2 года назад

Have you not read the Old Testament?

@jennya9838 2 года назад

@@maryjoyspohrer256 I have no idea why you're responding to me. This is a direct quote that made me laugh a month ago. I've already moved on and you're response is not only out of context, but I don't even know what you're talking about. Have a blessed day, love!

@neolexiousneolexian6079 2 года назад

@@jennya9838 Point is the Old Testament is largely a compilation of atrocities, ethnic cleansing, murders, excuses for it, and so on, I think.

@jennya9838 2 года назад

@@neolexiousneolexian6079 Again, I was literally quoting the video. Anyone who reads my comment and is unaware that I'm actively just repeating something previously stated, has not watched the video. Or perhaps they just need to feel superior to a stranger on the internet. Either way, I don't care. At all. Leave me the fuck alone.

@JeantheSecond 2 года назад

@@maryjoyspohrer256 Um? The Christians have plenty of atrocities in their history, but the people in the Old Testament were not Christians because Christians did not exist when the Old Testament was written?

@samcole3795 2 года назад

I finished my first anatomy class in college, and as someone who spent a lot of my life never having seen a dead body outside of a funeral where everything is cleaned up and tucked away nicely, I dreaded having to see cadavers in highschool. This channel helped me be a little less death-phobic and handle seeing dead bodies and be able to learn from them. So I appreciate that

@maritzasylvia 2 года назад

I love Institute of Human Anatomy Channel..;)

@isabellind1292 2 года назад

You have a stronger constitution than many who couldn't even attend science class when it came time to dissecting a frog. Good luck w/your studies and work, whichever path you are on.🌺🍀

@sealyoness 2 года назад

@@isabellind1292 Uh, you could have been my lab partner. The one that got me and my partner was the preserved earthworm. (The formaldehyde and the general greyness, disturbing...)

@isabellind1292 2 года назад

@@sealyoness Oh gosh, yes! I guess it's good for students who want to explore this field of science but it's not for the faint of heart. (I had the best science teacher, too)!🔬🐸🐛🤢😊

@justinhamilton8647 Год назад

They showed you DEAD BODIES in high school???? America is SO WILD

@Pheobus3309 2 года назад

It's hard to find a man that's emotionally available, not filled with bees, and won't fling corpses over my walls. *SIGH*

@Dizzy8203 2 года назад

Hear me out… if you eat meat that’s technically a corpse. Just not of a human. I would love someone to fling some chicken nuggets over my walls! (… that sounds really weird and I never thought I would type that)

@renworksfornow 2 года назад

bold of you to assume that Candyman would fling a corpse over the wall and is emotionally unavailable

@roseweed1468 2 года назад

I'll take the bees over emotional unavailability. Fling that fella over!! 👌

@TheSpectreV 2 года назад

A very Unhhhh reference here? Amazing

@Daisy30y03 2 года назад

😅😅

@Jivolt 3 года назад

“Fling out your dead.” “But I’m not dead yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!”

@AmandaHugandKiss411 2 года назад

Python has spoken

@mistyize 2 года назад

People on the other side: JAAEEESSSSUSSS CHRIST!! 🤣😂🤣

@scloftin8861 2 года назад

Dying of laughter here ... not plague.

@emdove 2 года назад

Yeeeeet ✨

@nataliestavrum4451 2 года назад

"I feel fiiiine"

@matterinthehatter 2 года назад

I am a new deathling and two major things have surprised me: 1) I have become WAY more interested in the topics of your channel than I could have ever guessed in the past. 2) I have learned I may not be as comfortable with death as I once thought, but I still want to be. Keep the videos coming because this guy is so grateful that you make them so he can watch!

@tertain4795 2 года назад

I LOVE every single time she uses “the Middle Ages were magic” thing. It’s the best.

@lauverr3808 5 месяцев назад

😂😂😂

@GarrettWatts 3 года назад

This thumbnail Caitlin I am dying.

@Morguedance13 3 года назад

I have to say, nothing (and I mean nothing) makes me so happy right now as to know that you are a deathling lol

@eudaemonia_ 3 года назад

NAH BRO IT TOOK ME TF OUT

@pyrosymphonyfireworksdesig5690 3 года назад

You? Dying? MAN THE CATAPULTS!

@StonerOfGotham 3 года назад

👀👀 Puppet History Ask A Mortician cross-over. You have the power.

@poopiekaka 3 года назад

gARRET WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE YOU DELIGHTFUL SOUL

@avi8r66 3 года назад

man here. not offended by the accusatin of corpse flinging. its a great way to get rid of your dead and demoralize your enemy at the same time. can be messy though.

@tavdy79 3 года назад

IMO infected corpse flinging isn't even the most unpleasant method of biological warfare invented by men. That would be arrowtips smeared with human excrement, creating a neat little package of really nasty infectious agents that could be delivered direct to your enemy's bloodstream.

@avi8r66 3 года назад

@@tavdy79 But you have to hit your target with that small arrow head. And just seeing it on the ground isn't going to have much impact. But seeing human corpses shredded all over your roofs, gardens, walking paths, barrels of food stuffs, smashing through windows into the living spaces, not only do the people under siege need to see it and smell it, they need to clean it up and dispose of them, usually burning them which smells awful as well, while more corpses are being thrown at them. So while medically the arrow is going to be more effective the waste material, corpses and carcasses will just wreck the people on the receiving end by sheer proximity. And if they know the people being thrown at them this adds hopelessness to their effects. Warrior goes out, head comes flying back.

@Nightsong001 3 года назад

I'm not a man, but I agree. Also ragdoll physics are popular for a reason. Launching a dead cow is funny for the launchers, not so much the people dealing with exploded cow

@avi8r66 3 года назад

@iron tansy Depends on the launcher really. If it's a cloth sling contraption vs a wooden platform or bucket. And the acceleration of the sling is slow, but the impact on the other end is sudden. So yeah, still messy, but that's what slaves and captives were for, handling messy stuff.

@The4books 3 года назад

Yes I think it’s undeniable most if not all of us men do at least think of catapulting rotting corpses at our enemies at one time or another.

@TheMarkCraig 2 года назад

Caitlin rocks! Back in April, I was getting another tattoo from my artist and asked her how she got started and she said she was supposed to be a mortician! So we spent 8 hours talking about death and I mentioned Caitlin and she was "I love her". Even a young waitress at a diner by me told me she wanted to be a mortician because of Caitlin and I told her she was doing a book signing at The Mutter Museum in Philadelphia (during Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs...) and told the young waitress the details needed. She was so happy. Apparently, I've become Caitlin's PR person in South Jersey and I am more than ok with that.

@petradegroot3578 10 месяцев назад

That’s so wholesome 😄

@LisaDiazAppleLisa 4 дня назад

You’re doing the Lord’s work

@artemisvoltaire4743 2 года назад

Anyone else use Caitlin's videos as relaxing background noise after watching them the first time? I've rewatched this so many times I've lost count. Fantastic content as always. Sending strong Pisces energy to you and the pupfish

@tracyhardyjohnson1315 2 года назад

Absolutely I do; and not only Caitlin's, but Sam Denby's Wendover Productions and Half As Interesting channels, all on well-researched, interesting topics with pleasant-sounding voice overs suitable not only for entertainment during dinner but for the nap afterward as well. :)

@artemisvoltaire4743 2 года назад

@@tracyhardyjohnson1315 Thanks for the suggestions, I'll have to check them out : )

@Burning_Dwarf Год назад

Definitly do that, also use count dankulas madlads for that.

@augustjsb 3 года назад

I want "It was Rats" on my tombstone with no explanation.

@Noahyw-. 3 года назад

stop- youre giving me great ideas

@its_me_jen_jen9204 3 года назад

Underrated comment, right here⬆️⬆️⬆️

@emmadrew3911 3 года назад

I am a pet rat owner so that makes it extra ominous haha.

@Scott__C 3 года назад

Or if you like 80s music: It was RATT.

@MissBee13 3 года назад

Oooh, fleas on rats.

@PaulMcElligott 3 года назад

“Manhandled Mangled Mongols” - Finally, a title for my debut Death Metal album!

@eefneleman9564 3 года назад

Be sure to make it illegible!

@PaulMcElligott 3 года назад

@@eefneleman9564 Thanks for the tip!😉

@lazyhomebody1356 3 года назад

How about the album "Mangled Mongols" by the band Manhandle? You've got your necessary sexual pun too!

@PaulMcElligott 3 года назад

@@lazyhomebody1356 I like where your head is at.

@danigadaleta5092 3 года назад

Here, Sir. Have My like .

@ellaeadig263 2 года назад

One of my favourite taken-from-history moments in The Lord Of The Rings is when the Gondorian soldiers attempt to retake Osgiliath and fail, then later the orcs catapult their heads back into Minas Tirith. Tolkien knew his stuff. :)

@rocioleal6546 2 года назад

Plague-off topic but I wanted to say that you really do help people in many different ways. I want to thank you for this: in 2019 I developed tinnitus and a ‘mild’ version of hyperacusis. I felt miserable because I thought I had to quit music and many things that I love. I couldn’t sleep at night because the noise I heard was too loud, and relaxing music didn’t work for me very well. That’s when I found your videos, and your voice as well as the way you narrate everything was very soothing for me. I would play the videos as background sound until I fell asleep. Now that I’ve adapted better to my condition, and that I don’t feel so sad about it anymore, I’m re-watching them out of joy. Thank you for all your amazing work.

@onehouse_crowley4597 3 года назад

"Sire, it's not the corpses. It's the fleas we carry." "... . . WITCH!! Fling him over the wall!"

@kareno8634 3 года назад

OH NO! You're Right-ish, but Not the "Witch" Now i have to Recreate. =\ (see above post) *>~-===US^x(({ º '.'.',',',' >~=rat{{,"c º `* Stay out of the Food Death Chain ______'{/` '},.^., ← Dead Rat uh . . Fleas too. Drown a FLEA --> Fill the Swamp with RATS *°^°./;{ ,}}_**____** .... ,/{flea]r °-°;/ ,;}_**___** . °j[, ! ,}]\,* lol ugh i tried

@mollymcdade4031 3 года назад

@composing-chaos 3 года назад

We need another, “Everybody’s asking, nobody’s asking.”, soon, please.

@Ilsezwarts 3 года назад

Yessss love those!!

@bearo8 3 года назад

Yes please

@joshuasill1141 2 года назад

I just saw an explanation for the Plague. So whenever the Earth goes into a great cooling cycle i.e. think of the Year without Summer, the bacteria in certain flea species stomachs became unstable causing an infection in the flea. This infection gave the flea symptoms of never being full so they kept feeding on whatever host they could find thus transferring the bacterial infection to the flea's host. So most plague outbreaks can be chalked up to natural disasters like all those times when Krakatoa exploded

@SoundShinobiYuki 2 года назад

A related theory I read is that the Great Famine in Europe, from 1315-1317 (which also heralded the end of the medieval warm period and took several more years to recover from), resulted in a generation of adults who grew up with weaker immune systems due to growing up malnourished during their childhood in the famine. As a result, they had even less resistance to plague and died disproportionately, when typical epidemics typically mostly kill the old and the children. Medieval plague graves unearthed by archaeologists (note that I said graves, not pits- the massive pits with bodies just dumped in were mostly a feature of the 1666 outbreak and avoided as much as possible in medieval society) show that most of the dead in them were in their 30's and 40's.

@nomorepikachu 9 месяцев назад

Could be, but the general consensus is that a mischief of rats gets decimated by the plague very fast. After about three days the fleas get so desperate that they will feed on humans. But of course natural disasters will always create the perfect conditions for diseases to come up and spread fast, and that infection could play a role as well.

@HoneyJinxxed 2 года назад

Hey Caitlin!! You should totally do an episode on the Radium Girls since it is said that their corpses are still glowing to this day because of their radium poisoning

@jim1842 2 года назад

Hey that’s a great idea 👍👍

@tbwkn 3 года назад

I'm guessing that the people who down voted this have had bad experiences with flying corpses

@oregonoutback7779 3 года назад

Or, have possibly been one ??

@karentucker2161 3 года назад

Lol 😆

@anne-droid7739 3 года назад

Maybe they were just hoping for a new episode of "Coffin Flop."

@tbwkn 3 года назад

@@anne-droid7739 can't say I've heard of that. Sounds like it should be on the diy network. I had to edit because every time I type like it turns to lime

@anne-droid7739 3 года назад

@@tbwkn It's a sketch on "I Think You Should Leave," about a guy losing his sh*t over the removal from Spectrum of a show comprised entirely of footage of bodies dropping out of the bottom of coffins. Apparently, one out of every five of them are nude. =)

@ct3131 3 года назад

"If it sneezes, it's not a corpse!" I want that on a t-shirt now.

@TheMeloettaful 3 года назад

That, and the "Middle Ages were Magic!" on a t-shirt 😁!

@brettbaxter7882 3 года назад

I believe that's how Kill Bill begins.

@mylovesongs2429 3 года назад

i want "The middle ages were magic" on the front of a t-shirt! On the back, i want "If it sneezes, it's not a corpse"

@Blade51 3 года назад

I too want both "if it sneezes, it's not a corpse!" And "the middle ages were magic!" On a shirt 🤣🤣🤣❤️❤️❤️

@lordofpestilence-688 3 года назад

oh my god me too

@Jessica117171717 2 года назад

Been binging this channel for two weeks now. How has Caitlin managed not to age in like 7 or 8 years???? 😭

@nueroptera 2 года назад

Is it secret recipe embalming fluid?

@laurabailey1054 Год назад

A portrait in her attic that ages for her

@dirtyfiendswithneedles3111 8 месяцев назад

Corpse magic

@savann13 2 года назад

We need a "The Middle Ages were Magic" shirt! I'd totally wear it! Great video!

@JimAllen-Persona 3 года назад

My daughter took an undergrad honors class titled " The Glorious and Turbulent Middle Ages". They should change the course name to "The Middle Ages were Magic" - they might have to open up a second section :-)

@darkinproductions 3 года назад

Oh the joys of money… I WISH I could be in college again. Alas I am not rich.

@ClockworkChainsaw 3 года назад

I mean, the name is pretty awesome already.

@JimAllen-Persona 3 года назад

@@darkinproductions Ironically enough, she was on a full academic scholarship. Didn't cost us a dime except for the textbooks.

@lazyhomebody1356 3 года назад

@@darkinproductions I'd like to go back in time to college when there were more books than computers

@JimAllen-Persona 3 года назад

@@ClockworkChainsaw Actually, I went back and checked - I had it backwards - it should have read "Turbulent and Glorious Middle Ages". They really were Turbulent and Glorious times. I remember because I kind of took the course with her. It was a joint class taught by a History professor AND a philosophy professor and incorporated elements of both. It was intense... I remember because I did a lot of the reading with her to help her study. I know I learned a lot.

@ToolsAreToys 3 года назад

Mortician question: How can I legally arrange for my corpse to be trebuched into my enemy's holdfast? Is having it written in my will with a witness sufficient, or do I need some extra permits?

@101spacemonkey 2 года назад

I suspect permits and if you have a faux enemy who agrees sure because its private property otherwise

@jessicadoban2564 2 года назад

May want to contact a notary.

@MsBrooklyn62 2 года назад

Ask your estate attorney

@bailey9947 2 года назад

IS IT LEGAL REVIVAL TOUR LETS DO IT

@misslawless6021 2 года назад

These are the real questions

@anne-mariemcandrew9893 Год назад

Please come visit the Highlands of Scotland, we live on the Dunphail Estate where we have castle ruins and apparently 5 headless ghosts. The castle was surrounded and the people being starved, so five men went beyond the castle walls to steal some grain, unfortunately they were caught and their heads threw over the wall whilst apparently shouting “here is your meat to go with the grain” xx

@gretep 2 года назад

as an estonian, i live near tallinn, which is the modern day reval. there is still a good portion of the medieval time era city left, and im stuck imagining folks hurling plague corpses over the walls lmao

@Zxgrhexbj 3 года назад

The crossover we need is Ask a Mortician and Puppet History

@elizebethbruce2803 3 года назад

Yeesssss. This comment made me want something I didn't realize I wanted.

@sleepingsalad 3 года назад

Yes!! That would be so awesome 😭

@kitlee172 3 года назад

I officially love you, no name. 😍

@DarkbutNotsinister 3 года назад

Puppet history is a thing?? Thanks for my next rabbit hole!

@kitlee172 3 года назад

@@DarkbutNotsinister Shane and Ryan of Watcher. You will not be disappointed.

@JodieMalcolm1996 3 года назад

Caitlin "not all men want to fling corpses in a catapult" My boyfriend for the last 8 years "when I die I want my frozen corpse to be catapulted through the window of my old college" Not all men, no. But some. Too many, perhaps. At least he is death positive and doesn't want to be embalmed?

@grmpEqweer 3 года назад

That's a...ahem...cool death plan...

@helenl3193 3 года назад

Oooh..! /me takes notes Edit: but then, I've always been a Tomboy... 😏🤔

@lazyhomebody1356 3 года назад

@@helenl3193 Yeah!! You go sister, why should the boys have all the fun

@forgenorman3025 3 года назад

I mean, if I donate my body to science and they end up using me for a crash test dummy I'd want my funeral to be people writing or drawing whatever they want on the cloth they'll use to cover my corpse before they fling me at a wall. That's probably asking too much though.

@allisonjames2923 3 года назад

Errrr did your boyfriend request this before watching this video??? Because if he spontaneously came up with that idea, maybe it’s time to flee in terror... I mean get a new boyfriend?

@kleineschnappi 2 года назад

Just recently discovered your channel and I'm so glad I'll have a LOT of content to catch up while you're on break! You're absolutely amazing. I don't know if you play games, but if you do, I'd love a review of A Mortician's Tale. Have fun on your break & see ya

@haileelogan2031 2 года назад

I just binged all your videos over the course of 2 or 3 weeks. Coming to the latest, I’m so sad that I’m out of your videos! Thank you for your time and effort spent on your content. It’s so wonderful what you’re doing. ❤️❤️❤️

@elle-says 3 года назад

The Middle Ages Were Magic is my jam.

@thelilbrans 3 года назад

Manhandling Middle age Magic Mangled Mongols does not sound like my jam....

@davidmolina3520 3 года назад

Rats and auto tune 🎶🐀

@savannahjones4195 3 года назад

SAMEEEEE

@clogs4956 3 года назад

We need the Rat Rap, because... yeah... my bad...

@AlanaArtDream 3 года назад

I giggle every time I see it

@amandafletcher4379 3 года назад

I'm gonna need a "if it sneezes it's not a corpse" t shirt. Also "not all men" had me screaming! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Laroling 3 года назад

I'd buy that to DEATH

@mrs.maztech2968 3 года назад

I'm dying to get this on a shirt!

@Pattygblanco 3 года назад

We also need an "It was RATS!" Tshirt

@storytellerhut3488 3 года назад

I agree. Can I get that in orange or blue please.

@gemeralderin 3 года назад

Yes and yes!!

@rpbrooksbank1 2 года назад

I have been hooked on this channel from the first video I watched. I love how you talk about such a difficult subject matter. Very informative with the right amount of levity. I have learned a lot. Keep up the great work.

@JillianClaireRox 2 года назад

Love Caitlin's story-telling antics. She makes learning super fun and exciting. I love her! CAN'T WAIT for more videos!!

@MichaelButchin 3 года назад

So-- During Monty Python and the Holy Grail, it was completely historically accurate when the French started launching cows at the silly English knights...?

@cocacola4blood365 3 года назад

Certainly puts the phrase "don't have a cow" in a new light.

@beth8775 3 года назад

A surprising amount of that movie is historically accurate lol

@IntrovertedOreo 3 года назад

That, and History of the World Part One 😂

@The4books 3 года назад

Yup!

@tonyarichards5430 3 года назад

That’s all I could think of during this.

@anouksurmenian4257 3 года назад

I want “If it sneezes, it’s not a corpse” on a t-shirt 😂

@whisperonascream 2 года назад

I 2nd that ... it needs to happen

@tipsybottles 2 года назад

Lol, that line made me cackle.

@missy3240 2 года назад

yes!

@oliviajeanette1065 2 года назад

Yes!

@native5891 2 года назад

@@tipsybottles lol i can make it! if it’s not copyrighted 😅

@MadMax-dp2bb 2 года назад

Man, I wish there were more youtubers like you. I love this kind of content!

@cornevictor9258 2 года назад

Enjoy the break and research - love your hard work and honesty

@ma_alva 3 года назад

"If it sneezes... it's not a corpse!" Doughty, Caitlin. 2021

@hueyiroquois3839 3 года назад

Flinging rocks with a trebuchet is a gateway drug to flinging corpses.

@Moonsfire62 3 года назад

LOL.

@denisemcdougal6445 3 года назад

Good one

@grahamstrouse1165 2 года назад

Rocks get boring after a while.

@knightmarecityk 2 года назад

In a complete cluster of a year of horrific rampant death, Caitlin's death centered videos have honestly made my life better.

@UnDead483 2 года назад

Ok... as a man... 9:31 was a bit of a journey for me. At first I felt attacked. Then I was honest with myself and I felt seen. Then I was more honest with myself and went "d*mn but she's not wrong." Then I was even MORE honest with myself and thought "Actually that's a good idea. Perfect weekend garage project." Now if you'll excuse me, I've got some carcasses to fling at some anti-vaxxers. Thanks Caitlin!

@erikaswanson7072 2 года назад

Then you can use the anti vaxxers' carcasses to fling at other anti vaxxers.. it's self sustaining!

@bitchymoroseandloud3066 3 года назад

"Not ALL men want to fling corpses by catapult" Yes... Yes we do.

@Ironhandjohn 3 года назад

Why stop at corpses? Ownership of a catapult creates a will to use it, and pretty much anything not nailed down can find itself being loaded into a trebuchet. I'd be slinging all kinds of stuff with mine if I owned one.

@TinyScorpion44 3 года назад

I am a woman and also want to fling corpses by catapult

@jennymunday7913 3 года назад

I am a woman and I have fired watermelons at a target via trebuchet. I'd launch a corpse in a heartbeat! Truly, the fastest way to my heart is medieval siege machines and polearms.

@xfallenxlostx3254 3 года назад

Lady here who in the past flung a number of things by trebuchet that was handmade by my brother and dad using a garage door spring for strong flinging power. It was fabulous. Never corpses, but plenty of balloons filled with things, rotten fruit from our trees, dirt clods…

@taranullius9221 3 года назад

I've wanted a giant catapult since I was a little girl. I would also be at the very least half interested in flinging myself on said catapult to see what would happen even though I know what would happen I'm just going to pretend I don't and think that having homemade giant batwings might save me.

@IkaraPentiki 3 года назад

We need that on a shirt: "If it sneezes, it's not a corpse"

@denisemcdougal6445 3 года назад

I want one too

@carmenmcalister7338 3 года назад

I'd buy that.

@StarrClaws 3 года назад

Yes please.

@slytheringingerwitch 3 года назад

With the 'Middle Ages Were Magic' on the back!

@oreocookies7831 3 года назад

Oh yes I want one with both sayings!!! 🐀🐁🐁🐀🏰👑🗡️🛡️🏹🔮

@leandrotami 2 года назад

You really found a very nice, entertaining way to talk with people about stuff that usually don't like to think about, much less discuss. I always laugh with your videos. This dispells many taboos.

@sbonnington4499 2 года назад

Caitlin, thank you for these videos! I really appreciate your take on things and what (from my total lack of self-research) seems to be well-researched content. I appreciate it!

@RupertMissick 3 года назад

"If you're going to go through the trouble of building a 65-foot tall catapult, you're going to use it to fling some gnarly stuff." *I feel very "seen" right now.* 😌😌

@anelisamorgan8590 3 года назад

😂😂😂

@TheAccidentalViking 3 года назад

Yes, every student who did mechanical engineering. Whether you built a 'catapult' or a 'trebuchet' depends on where you went to school.

@garnix5612 3 года назад

The attackers killed the duke's son during a Siege in France, knocking him from the battlements with a peasant's severed head fired from a trebuchet, the first recorded instance of a serf-face-to-heir missile.

@nancymontgomery8897 3 года назад

That is a groaner.

@grmpEqweer 3 года назад

🤣 well played!

@lazyhomebody1356 3 года назад

Wow, ow!

@forgenorman3025 3 года назад

Take my like and get out.

@TheLadybughug 3 года назад

Hahahaha! Awesome!

@wrockage 2 года назад

first time watcher - i enjoyed your wit and humor and clearly you must know your stuff. thanks for sharing!

@jackrabbit5155 2 года назад

I just wanna say I love your content and the way you explain things, and especially love how you put captions for your videos!!

@StephanieLenz71 3 года назад

"Not all men want to fling corpses by catapult... [they also want to use trebuchets]." I really thought we were gonna go for "all people want to fling corpses with catapults" but this works too.

@Rachel-ds6gy 3 года назад

"Why did you go into the field of art history?" *gestures vaguely at paintings of decapitated soldier heads being catapulted over city walls*

@pingui41 Год назад

I am new to this channel, but had to subscribe at the very first video. And I don't know, how many of your videos I have consumed over the past days. To me it's no coincidence that this channel was brought up to me at my RU-vid page. I needed this. I didn't know it, but I needed this. And in one specific topic, it gave me peace. Thank you for that.

@loisreese2692 2 года назад

Hi, Caitlin! Just checking on you. Are you doing alright? Staying healthy, I hope. See you when you're back, doll. Take care! Lois

@laurachapple6795 3 года назад

"Why is Caitlin relaxing?" Honestly, because we all needed some peaceful woods after the flying plague corpses.

@Scavenger82 3 года назад

That was my thought exactly.

@jodiwest23 3 года назад

Yes! I was hoping The Middle Ages Were Magic would come back. I love them.

@DarkbutNotsinister 3 года назад

And we got TWO of them!! EDIT: THREE. EDIT 2: So many. We got so, so many.

@AxxLAfriku 3 года назад

OH NOOOOOO!!! Most people agree that my vids are the worst on RU-vid. I agree to disagree. Please agree to disagree with the haters, dear ren

@inkadinkadoodle 3 года назад

Better than than the 90s! :D

@jordanharkins97 3 года назад

No thanks I kinda don’t feel like getting a splinter then dying from infection after using unsanitized tweezers to get it out

@AlanaArtDream 3 года назад

I giggled in glee I was so happy to see the Middle Ages were magic again

@carolnuttall2689 9 месяцев назад

Found your Channel a week ago, I love it and I'm hooked. Watch about 3or4 videos each night. Thanks for all your hard work ❤❤❤

@jasoncross7986 2 года назад

You have such a great voice and annunciation-very easy on the ear and vibrant 👏👏

@Honeybell001 3 года назад

I will be working hard to incorporate "if it sneezes, it's not a corpse" into conversation as often as possible.

@4reddit545 2 года назад

I need merch with this quote.

@miriambucholtz9315 2 года назад

I understand that they can do a pretty good belch, though.

@ReptilianTeaDrinker 2 года назад

@@miriambucholtz9315 They fart too. lol

@CapitalCLYDE 3 года назад

“Grandma had breast cancer. She did not have the plague.” Idk why but this is what did me in 🤣🤣🤣

@llddau 3 года назад

Sounds like many of the people who have died with covid. I mean of covid. From covid. Definitely. Especially the 98 year old ones.

@robertnett9793 3 года назад

And oh so true. I got my first trebuchet at age 5 - so I could fling dead mice and pebbles around. But you know, the trebuchet of a boy grows with age. .... Unfortunately boys only grow until 5 - from there they just get larger...

@maschaorsomething 3 года назад

@@llddau Yeah yeah yeah Lara, just log off for us please.

@The_momur 2 года назад

They used to think cancer was communicable, at least ~1930’s.

@louisefarber7573 2 года назад

Omg, you are the best! So glad I found this channel!

@shanawalton2846 2 года назад

Enjoy your summer Caitlin! Your videos are always a delight. ❤❤❤❤

@cidb.212 3 года назад

"He says he's not dead." "Well, he will be soon...he's very ill."

@ClayDress 3 года назад

“Fechez la vache.” “Huh?” “Fechez la vache.”

@drhandle4498 3 года назад

"I don't want to go on the cart..."

@SirFrederick 3 года назад

I feel happy! I feel happ...clonk!

@cidb.212 3 года назад

@@ClayDress So many great lines in this movie!

@satanissima 3 года назад

I feel fine!

@NickMorouney 3 года назад

An alternate title to this video could be "I get 'The Middle Ages Were Magic' stuck in 1.5mil Subscriber's heads"

@thehutch7728 3 года назад

And if the past is any indicator of the future, that little ditty will remain in my head for *months*!

@jujubean914 3 года назад

😂 ikr

@lauraleesrogers9702 2 года назад

"The Middle Ages Were Magic" is my new answer for anytime something is awful.....

@lastchancemonicam3948 2 года назад

Have a great vacation. Goodness knows with all you've endured the last few years (dealing with our current plague) you DESERVE a break.

@marci5369 3 года назад

Caitlyn: "Of course people in the middle ages catapulted more dead stuff at their enemies!" Me: "yes, of course. That totally checks out"

@bnhietala 2 года назад

So Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail may be more historically accurate than we realized...

@tinad8561 2 года назад

So much of MP turns out to be true in the end…

@jon-paulfilkins7820 2 года назад

Terry Jones, python and co writer/director of the film was quite a significant medieval scholar. His documentaries on the Crusades and The Barbarians are oood watch, a dash of humor is used to make things relatable and understandable.

@anneroy4560 Год назад

they were visionaries ...

@BFanDesign 2 года назад

Just discovered this channel and cant wait to binge all of your videos! Enjoy the summer 💜

@DarqueQueen7 2 года назад

I hope you're having a GREAT summer, Caitlin!

@aggiesanvil 2 года назад

The Flying Plauge Corpses sounds like a death metal band.

@elly.a4153 2 года назад

Air-borne death Rain of Corpses Fallen angels of the plague

@DrachenGothik666 Год назад

@@elly.a4153 Rain of Corpses is the best one!🤣🖤🤘

@BePlushed 3 года назад

I could watch a whole video of Caitlin just saying "It was rats" lol

@lazyhomebody1356 3 года назад

Unjustly accused rats!! There were rat fleas and people fleas. I've read a lot of books about the Plague and all agree it was the people-biting fleas that caused the plague

@Pingwn 3 года назад

@@lazyhomebody1356 she would agree as she said so in the video

@abbywilson5988 3 года назад

The auto tune is a great addition

@lazyhomebody1356 3 года назад

@@Pingwn Totally missed that! Thanks, I will watch it again

@JervisGermane 3 года назад

I feel like I just did

@livvv.mp4581 2 года назад

Super interesting!!! And take all the time you need!! I used to be absolutely horrified of death and corpses. But your channel has changed that!

@rejardiolin 2 года назад

This channel is the number one piece of media I didnt know I needed in my life

@andrewbower2533 3 года назад

I mean, there’s a RU-vid channel called “will it blend”. I guess the medieval version is “will it trebuchet”?

@HayLeesHomeMade 3 года назад

Damn i forgot about that channel, i used to love watching their backlog

@shortwavekitty1365 2 года назад

No, it's called, "Will It Yeeteth". The yeeteth thread is above. 🤣

@MargoMB19 2 года назад

I laughed way too much at this.

@Talimara1 2 года назад

Tonight, on "SEND IT!"

@tunicoco 3 года назад

The editing on this video was simply MAGIC, just like the middle ages.

@MariposaRedimida 2 года назад

I missed this video for a few weeks and now I finally get why no new videos were posting, two Saturdays in a row now I was looking forward to your videos, Caitlin! I just love your sense of humor, I'll just watch anything you post! I think you could legit start a Medieval History Channel and it would be awesome!

@theroundestfrog7913 2 года назад

Oh my, I love you so much. You are adorable,funny and informative all in one, Im so happy I started watching you all those years ago because you can entertain like no other while touching important subjects. love from Poland

@theroundestfrog7913 2 года назад

Also rats

@JagoHazzard 2 года назад

I actually do want to fling corpses with a catapult. I promise to do better in future.

@jamyedowell245 2 года назад

Wait... can we request this be our death plan? Because I wouldn't mind my last request to be FLY, even if I'm too dead to know it.

@braincabbage 2 года назад

@@jamyedowell245 Yeah, it sounds like a fun way to go. I want my dead body to be catapulted somewhere. Dunno where, but somewhere. Maybe somewhere in nature because I don't want to traumatise those poor people who would have my dead body raining down on them from the sky. Maybe being catapulted into the sea would be the way to go. Or possibly an active vulcano.

@monicafoote2385 2 года назад

@@jamyedowell245 Have you seen that episode of Northern Exposure? S4E4, the interwebs tell me. The whole show is worth it, but thats your episode if you want a funerary trebuchet

@midnightrunner684 2 года назад

Mel Brooks had Corpses catapulted as he shot them down in the Movie " History of the World " ..Its Good to be the King

@MaBluu 2 года назад

@@jamyedowell245 into a lake or something may be interesting.. 🤷🏼‍♀️

@BeatlesBiitch 3 года назад

"Not All Men want to fling corpses by catapult." So true Caitlin, some of us prefer shot put. Thank you for fighting the stereotypes, your pretty cool for a girl.

@Tsakeli 3 года назад

I was gonna say "sure not all men... some ladies wanna do it too..." .>

@evenstar435 3 года назад

"your pretty cool for a girl"

@DonQuixotedeKaw 2 года назад

A relatively small trebuchet, could fling a lot of RATS! But imagine a trebuchet made for flinging fleas...

@herpyderpy2869 2 года назад

As a medieval history enthusiast, when she mentioned the heads I wasn't surprised anymore.

@wolfcat1998 3 года назад

As a man, I can say I've never considered launching roadkill through the air with a catapult before. I can also say it's pretty much all I can think about now. I hope you're happy.

@WindsofChange 3 года назад

Narrator: And so the saga begins anew...."

@gusmonster59 3 года назад

But what how were you thinking of flinging roadkill before the catapult suggestion? **blink blink**

@wolfcat1998 3 года назад

@@gusmonster59 slingshots and modified crossbows.

@TheLadybughug 3 года назад

This is epic!

@VampiraVonGhoulscout 3 года назад

Sick guy: "I'm not dead, I don't want to go on the catapult!" *yeeteth* "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@jennifergonzales7953 3 года назад

Yeeteth... OMG I almost peed my pants... AT WORK

@VampiraVonGhoulscout 3 года назад

@@jennifergonzales7953 I straight up cackled at this concept of sick people being catapulted for five minutes. I couldn't breathe. It's so Monty Python.

@AmyinOregon 3 года назад

You had me at Yeeteth...

@funkygirlkathryn 3 года назад

Yeeteth 🤣

@Ujuani68 3 года назад

Yeeteth!!😄👍

@moniquerobinson5206 2 года назад

Love, love your program. Enjoy your time away. But be safe & stay healthy. Looking forward to new content. ❤️🇨🇦

@thebotanicalden8468 2 года назад

This is my new favorite channel 🤣 Your so good at history telling!

@BanniToki 3 года назад

When my Nana passed of natural causes at 98, the nurse let us stay in the room for a bit, but then shooed my baby and I out because she said dead bodies give off toxins that would harm my baby. I left, but it didn't make sense. She was just so agitated. I am deeply appreciative of this channel!

@victoriashevlin8587 3 года назад

Was she, a *qualified* nurse? Or did she just call herself a nurse...?

@beth8775 3 года назад

@@victoriashevlin8587 It's astonishing how many practicing professionals still believe very outdated info. I mean, Caitlin gets this nonsense from other funeral directors too.

@BanniToki 3 года назад

She was a qualified nurse. She had cared for Nana for several years and she was emotional at her passing as well. She was the one who called us and told us we needed to come as the end was near. I was the only one of the 4 adult grandchildren able to make the journey in time. We got to spend about a day at her bedside, with my 5-month-old son babbling away and patting her hand. I take a lot of comfort in that. She couldn't speak anymore, but she looked happy to interact with one of her great-grandchildren.

@alexissejnoha7257 2 года назад

I would absolutely buy a shirt that says "The Middle Ages were magic"

@Freya778 2 года назад

Even better if it had something you could press and her voice would come out of your shirt saying it.

@MaBluu 2 года назад

Yes!!!

@TheGloomyTuesday 2 года назад

Oh 100%

@loisreese2692 2 года назад

I'm in! Bentham's Head needs to be on there somewhere. 😂

@aRedBaroness 2 года назад

I would like it to play a lute version of some Benny Hill music...to truly embody the spirit of the phrase. Maybe some of those dual-wield flute things as well. At a dirge pace of course

@perjohansson3030 2 года назад

I recently discovered yor channel and immediately became interested. Ever since I was a little boy I think it has been exciting with dark cemeteries; mummies and the like. I love your way of telling us aboutall the horrors. Your humor is really wonderful. Thank you for a absolutely super entertainment 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😉🌹

@kayleeriley3591 Год назад

This channel is way funnier than I would’ve guessed it being by the title and I’m blind so I don’t even get the visuals LOL this channel is making my day

@ValentineS97 3 года назад

“hold my mead…” that was sheer perfection 😅😂🙌

@robertconnor2934 3 года назад

I sense some misdirection here. Caitlin is building her own Trebuchet.

@ayhrielvisante1386 2 года назад

I absolutely adore your sense of humor in these videos.

@bookwormparade2354 Год назад

I just finished the lecture audiobook of Great Courses, "Black Death", and I learned about this! All I kept singing in my head was "the middle ages were magic 🎶