Do you suffer from convulsions bloody noses? Are you fraught with fatigue?
Languid with lethargy, well fret no more deathlings
Just take two of these and call me in the morning
It's no secret that throughout the course of human history people [were] like really
Into public executions public beheadings in renaissance England were like the main stage at Coachella
Hordes of people food
drunks
Jugglers the jugglers just never go away
Everybody wanted to get a good view of the headlining act
but the headlining act in this case wasn't beyonce was more like Anne boleyn or sir thomas dingly and
They were going to be killed after [the] condemned had been beheaded and blood was
Spurting from their severed arteries it was not uncommon for the sick and afflicted to run up to the scaffolding cups
Outstretched in an attempt [to] Gather the deceased's blood in
1649 When King Charles the first of England was beheaded the crowd went mad trying to sop up every last
drop of his blood
The executioner even sold bloody chunks of his hair. This is my hair by the way
I'm gonna sell it on ebay for charity of course that charity is just buying me some sandwiches
scandal! This wasn't just morbid
Souvenir collecting you see common people and chemists alike believed that a guzzle of blood a day
kept the epilepsy at Bay
Um... It doesn't!
Ingesting blood preferably fresh from a corpse
But also powdered dried or distilled was believed to be a potent treatment for epilepsy
Given this belief the aftermath of beheadings have been described as macabre
spectacles with dozens of people fighting to get a sip of blood their faces smeared like vampires
Now isnt that nice
Hmm
Bonus if the corpse you drank blood from was royalty as that blood was said to have divine
Healing qualities hence the Frenzy over King Charles the firsts bloody hair clots
A 17th century Franciscan apothecary even created a recipe for blood
Marmalade which you foodies out there might want to pin to your pinterest board the recipe from this book on Corpse medicine from the renaissance
To the Victorians let the blood dry into a sticky mess
And then place it on a flat smooth table of softwood and cut it into little slices
allowing the watery part to drip [away]
When it is no longer dripping place it on a stove and stir it into a batter with a knife
When it is absolutely dry place it immediately in a very warm bronze mortar and pound it
Forcing it through a sieve of finest silk
When it has been sieved seal it in a glass jar renew it in the spring of every year
Of course man cannot survive by blood alone for those [of] means there were skulls
Hi!
First, you had intact skulls,
the guide that all the london apothecaries used to make their medicine said that you should always have skulls in stock
Preferably the skulls of men killed by violent death. Then, you had powdered skulls which could be used to make tinctures
Oils and distillation for treatments. You even had skull moss or skull Mildew
Harvested from [the] unburied skulls found in Charnel houses and on
Battlefields the skull moss was said to cure a variety of ailments from bloody noses to fatigue to the plague
I'm gonna guess it didn't do so well on the plague
belief in the medicinal power of corpses continued well into the
Mid-1800s, with references to skull moss found as late as
1890 in London. That really was not that long ago!
It wasn't that long ago that a londoner might see a skull grinning at him from the shelf of his local druggist
It wasn't that long ago that people were consuming skulls and the moss that grew on them
Science now tells us that eating skulls and drinking blood does not cure the plague or epilepsy
But I don't know blood marmalade still might be delicious
Like a superfood put it in your açai bowl. This has been your morbid minute, and remember deathlings, you *will* die
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Links to all Sorts of good articles books and videos below - including one by order member Lindsey Fitzharris!
{sing-songy tone} Hey!
This is not a skull -  real skull - by the way. This is from when my father was an anthropology teacher. It's a model. Sorry
It's just a model, but isn't she beautiful?
{creepy tone} yeeessss
