Why Did Nobles Wear Bug Infested Powdered Wigs?
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- čas přidán 11. 08. 2023
- In the 18th century, aristocrats across Europe adopted a new trend: wearing luxurious, powdered wigs that were symbols of wealth and power. Unfortunately, these stylish wigs were often plagued by bugs and lice!
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@HistoryBeast1 the name of the song is legonaire
Those wigs infested with bugs give me the creeps🪳 👀🥺😱
It’s hearing about things like this that makes me less wishful to have lived in a previous century.
You know in the next century, they will say that about ours.. If you looking at thinks for there eyes instead of ours, it's really not so bad..
The wigs would be the least of your worries. Especially being female.
@@rickwilliams967
I’m sure you’re right!
Some people pine for the "good ole days" or "simpler times", but I wouldn't even want to go back to any of the past decades I've lived through, much less times before I was born. Too many people think the past is like the romanticized/sanitized versions we see in TV shows and movies.
@@docholliday4546Well you're not wrong. Some stuff was used all over the place but today we know they're dangerous like arsenic for example or radiation.
Nobles wore bug-infested powdered wigs to give the bugs a taste of the high life and a front-row seat at the court's latest fashion trends. After all, bugs deserve a little glamour too!
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Inbreeding produces these types. I think it would be safe to say many in washington today could trace their lineage back to many of these sexually perverted Aristocrats. Joe sniffer definitely shows signs of this behavior as do many others showing up in Congress today.
They use to eat egyptain mummies too.
It’s a miracle the human race made it to 2023
Whew, yes indeed 😂😂😂😂
Oh the human species is very resilient-we're like the cockroach-not so easy to destroy!
it'll be a miracle if we make it to 2025 at this rate
You don't believe this propaganda do you? CZcams is not a great source for fact, a lot of it is shock stuff that has no basis in reality.
U know "Human races" is not dirty westerners wearing infested hair with bugs that call themself noble.. 🤔
Wigs weren't exclusive to lice and fleas, pretty much a wide spread fact, and the aristocrats had more hygiene going on than the rest. The wig makers did in fact have specially built hot rooms for debugging the wigs, but I'm not clear on all the details of how people got rid of personal lice, etc. Lice combs were abundant tho, with the fine teeth to grab lice and nits. Any time people gather close together you are at risk for lice. Airplanes give me the creeps.
And Dr waiting rooms with fabric on seats.
And buses and cinemas 🤢
WE NEED THE OLD NARRATOR!
Its AI
@@kayvan671so we still need the old narrator, not AI
I know it's ai but I missed the old one😢
We know it's AI. We still need the old narrator.
We don’t wear wigs anymore because we have better hygiene.
Burning Man: Am I a joke to you?
I have never met a section-8 woman that doesn't wear a wig, and many of those AA women only wash their hair every other week at most.
@@BoopSnoot
What's a Section-8 woman?
Seen this channel grow to 700k subs so far. Keep it up mate👍
the old voice fit better ngl
I've just had my hair washed as I'm watching this and now I'm feeling itchy.
So glad to have found this page or so i thought until...Please kindly lower the background music volume on the videos...
Itchy is the head that wears the wig 😅
fat is the man that eats the pig.
The thumbnail 😂
IKR😂
This ain’t the regular guy
Bad news, it's an AI voice all the time, but the content is good anyway
umm the wigs were not bug infested. Their real hair was, which is why they cut off and wore wigs.
Even their real hair wasn't bug infested, it was just fashion of the time, just as it is fashion of the time right now to say that white people in the middle ages were gross. for example, while its true that they didn't typically have bathhouses the way the Greeks and Romans before them did, they did still wash themselves in the morning and at night before going to bed. The term "washcloth" comes from that, as it was common that you would use a pot with hot water and a cloth to clean yourself with. Even insects and animals clean themselves regularly, and people in the middle ages were no different and wanted to feel clean and so did clean themselves, they just didn't soak themselves in bathtubs.
That's what I thought. Fleas and lice feed off of live humans, not dead wigs.
@BoopSnoop. You're right. Even without a bathtub, people could still wash themselves.
EXACTLY.
Then, for the folks who didn't remove the wogs at bedtime. The wigs would get infested with bedbugs.
Yeah, and its common sense, and at this time before Europeans invented "germ theory" they believed that bad smells were harmful to health. The idea was that if food or dirt was smelly, you would get sick from it. So Europeans absolutely washed themselves and their clothes regularly to avoid bad smells. Especially the Norwegians were known to be extremely anal about hygiene, which is funny when in modern times we depict the Vikings as very dirty and rough when in reality they were "pretty boys" braiding each others hair and using crushed flowers and other herbs to scent their hair and bodies. Whats even more interesting is if you research the medieval peasant diet they actually ate better and fresher food than most of the junk food we consume today and with all the physical activity were also likely almost all in very good cardiovascular shape. And while life was physically harder without modern technology, it may have been less mentally stressful and mental health may have been better having simple regular routines with a rather slow pace of change. @@300books
For the Company...... they Couldn't trust the people around them! 😏
What is the name of the voice artist used in the video? Which AI site was used? Please provide information.
to bad more people don't know about you, I love about hearing all this stuff!
Idk what the previous guy's talking about! You sound just like Rod Serling from The Twilight Zone!! Confident & sinister at the same time!!! Don't stop. Dang, I haven't said that in years. LOL
hey man i want to ask you a question please you are using AI generated images and i wanted to do the same thing for a game i want to make, do you know if the images generated can be copyrighted?
Most likely he is using mid journey. When you pay for mid journey you are guaranteed that you can not be sued for copyright infringement.
Loved the storyline and the video. Keep going 🎉
What storyline? He was just stating facts.
@@rickwilliams967 I mean the way he presented it. Why people have problem with everything in this world, lol. Chill. I love this guy
@screamhistory1 🪮
I thought it was kinda funny! It was fast-paced and the video made me laugh with all the 🪳🪰🐜🦟 creepy-crawlies all over their wigs, their heads and their faces!
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I thought it was hilarious.
@@twirlgirl2286 lol, I love it that way though. Make it more engaging IMO
Using arsenic and Mercury is crazy to me, but I guess that was the time.
They drank lead coloured alcohol knowing it will kill them (mad hatters weren't unknown back then I am pretty sure they got infamous around that time), most epoches were borderline suicidal "it kills me? GOOD!!! Can't wait its horrible here and EVERYONE smells. "
Mercury and lead were used in cosmetics, either by males and females, there were a lot of reported deaths due to these materials, don't forget that in 19th century a lot of things such as tapestry or paints .were made with toxic materials
If you eat seafood or rice, you too are consuming arsenic.
Yes, that WAS the time!
People back then used arsenic for almost everything. In the 19th Century, for example, women used to put it on their faces to make the skin turn a pale white, which was considered the ultimate form of beauty. Unfortunately, the arsenic would inevitably kill many of these women, hence the expression, "DROP DEAD GORGEOUS."
You act like this is past tense. Today its not whites but Asians that have created a multibillion dollar industry from skin lightening creams, sometimes which contain mercury even though its forbidden by the FDA. Google Chinese skin lightening cream mercury and you'll find the results. @@michaelpalmieri7335
Wow ❗🤯 interesting weird topic 💯👍
Music name?
Seeing this now is perfect timing. I was commenting on something else on Instagram and it was about how people in Europe in the 15-18 centuries didn’t bathe regularly. I had so many people coming after me saying how that was false and a historical lie. The only thing they said to counter it was there were soap maker guilds and that the ancient Roman’s had public baths. Claiming that if there were these types of guilds that somehow proved they bathed regularly. Never mind that was Ancient Rome and Europe had gone through the dark ages changing a lot. So thank you for pointing out again that this was true about poor hygiene.
Not to mention that it was the Original People of Africa who actually educated Greece and Rome (eventually Europeans) about the importance and necessity of clean personal hygiene and _regular_ bathing.
@@twirlgirl2286as shown by their practices to this very day
Another Afrocentrist spreading false information @@twirlgirl2286 😴
@@twirlgirl2286 Oh boy. Here we go again. 🙄
@@witchhazel4135abt what 💀what’s your point you’re just making yourself look like a fool by saying that
Very cool!
What’s this song though?
Did you ever happen to find it?
Whole lotta itching going on... 😂
0:45 Mr. Bean?!
Now that is the most disturbing thing I have heard in my life.
its also a lie though. 1) the wigs were not infested with bugs. 2) wig scratchers are not evidence of bugs, any wig can itch because of the material that held the wig together. 3) even today over half of african american women wear wigs and don't wash their hair more than every other week. 4) in the middle ages baths were uncommon but it doesn't mean they didn't wash themselves. It was common practice to use a pot of hot water to wash yourself in the morning and before bed and its where the term "washcloth" came from, which was not originally coined for dishes but for how most common people would wash themselves. When you're pulling up buckets of water from a well, filling and heating a bathtub is very cumbersome and wasteful, but when you're going to make breakfast anyway, using the hot stove to also bring a pot of clean water to heat in order to wash yourself with was simple and easy, the same thing with after dinner, the stove was already hot so not wasteful.
Come to think of it: the ancient Egyptians took this approach too.
The powder was sugar if im not mistaken
The lead powder killed the bugs ...so... there were no infestations
Lice and scabies of the scalp and natural hair was a BIG issue as well.
French court is notorious for spreading questionable practices around the world.
Powdered wigs were the iphones of the 1700s
That is so uncivilized!
Wow
are the images ai generated?
I want the old narrator
They was going thru it
Apparently they still wear wigs in some modern day parliamentary places but probly not bug infested tho but u Neva know
That would be the inbreeding
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hair weave / extensions...? ...what's old is new....
Aristocrats, eh?
The word "aristos" in Greek means the "the best".
Just shaking my head...
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Is that why our new social queens wear wigs now?
😬😬😬😬 wtf? 😭
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Disgusting p1g5 !! Lol
Hide all your goats
People still do all that shit. It's human nature.
the so called civilized cultures
This video was pretty dang hilarious with those 🪰🪲🐜🐛🪳🦟🪲🦟🪳🪰 crawling all over their (dirty) wigs, heads and 🤢 (open) STD 🤢 sores. 🤮 But hey, like I said, *_Hella Funny!!_*
its also not true though. they were not bug infested, lice can only feed on blood and there is no blood in a wig. in the middle ages people washed not once but TWICE a day, they just didn't use baths. most were using well water, and to fill up so many buckets of water to fill a bathtub and then heat all of that water was very resource intensive. Instead, they would get a fire going in the morning and bring a pot of water to heat (not quite boil) to wash themselves with using a washcloth, and then use that same fire to make breakfast. Ditto after dinner in reverse order, so they washed themselves regularly, heck even insects clean themselves regularly. This is just anti-european propaganda that is popular to spread right now.
@BoopSnoot Sorry, but it's also *documented* who actually introduced _proper_ hygiene to those European countries. Although I _showed_ bugs (you saw a pic of a lice and went all in when again, I _showed bugs),_ they can and do manage to get caught or tangled in a wig, lay eggs, and thus start an infestation (especially if you've got 🪰🪳🕷 crawling around). These pest go back millilia, and they still ain't going nowhere anytime soon.
Sorry for being wrong, hygiene is native to all cultures, even the most primitive tribes in the amazon forest wash themselves daily, the fact that they didn't have soap or baths doesn't mean they didn't wash themselves. Ancient Romans introduced bathing long before this time period, but with the fall of a central government to maintain the bathhouses that were built, people instead washed themselves in other ways. You're wrong child.
@BoopSnoot Ancient Africans introduced *hygiene* to the Romans. Hygiene is more than just washing from a basin. There's nothing wrong with taking "bird baths" as necessary. However, there was a breakdown in communication as The Black Plague spread throughout Europe. It took quite some time for physicians to get their arms around that monster, to control and rid it. And as _proper hygiene_ requires a _proper cleaning,_ it was a bit slow to take off. Nonetheless, I will agree about the lice, but I'm gonna have to disagree on pretty much everything else. Sorry. 🤝🏼🙏🏽 🙏🏽 🙏🏽
@@twirlgirl2286 ancient africans? do you mean Egyptians? 1) not true and 2) Egyptians at the time were white, as Egypt was very close to Rome and Greece by sea (less than a day travel), but impossible to reach from black Africa due to the impassible Sahara desert. The Sahara wasn't made traversable until Arabs introduced camels and celestial navigation to the region. the black plague, which also struck the middle-east and north African coastal cities (and in fact originated from there) had nothing to do with washing, it had to do with rodents. Now one way in that medieval people were backwards is that thanks to the church there was superstition against cats. So many cats were either scared away or killed and not kept as pets, and cats were one of the best ways to control the rodent population. You could take as many baths as you want to though, it won't prevent a mouse in your house from having an infected flea bite you. That'd be like telling blacl africans that if they take more showers then they wouldn't get malaria.
This is absolute _nonsense_ .Firstly, bathing frequently does not reduce head lice, or discourage them. Secondly, if anything wigs massively reduced lice because they could be treated with poisons, boiled, and shaken out. Head scratchers were used to scratch the scalp because a horsehair wig on a bald head is flipping itchy, speaking as a bald UK barrister. Can you get some actual historians to work on your channel?
I suppose this channel is all about rewriting history like the history channel does.
@@graciegj63 Sadly yeah
@@jakecavendish3470 Got any books before Woodrow Wilson was around?0
@@graciegj63 Yeah quite a few, I did my undergrad in history so had to plough through everything from Tacitus to Hobsbawm 😮💨
@@jakecavendish3470 Great 👍
Meanwhile the native Americans remained clean an well groomed
😂 that's a myth. They behaved like animals and killed each other at will
@@MrThedonheadNot too different then.
@@MrThedonhead Source: Trust me bro
also stick to the old narrator. :)
I guess I got too used to the narrator on the shorts. This voice is attrocious. Lol.
And as a kid in the 60s&70s = i thought that it was too stimulate their 🧠 brain function! Or just to T00 give them something to do! PS & this is what we are descended from! = no wonder why the 🌐 is the way it is!.
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That is not amusing at all.
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Not a fan of the AI art. Not cool.
gross