10 Ludicrous Laws from the Middle Ages That We Still Break Today
Weird History | April 3, 2026
The Middle Ages spanned from roughly 500 to 1500 CE. For much of that time, the people of England lived under a feudal system in which both the laws, and the penalties for breaking them, were significantly more bizarre than the ones we are familiar with today.
I think the absurd insane law about executing so called "witches" is good one. First off, there is no God and second, just because some old bag has a cat 🐈⬛ doesn't necessarily imply that she is a witch 🧙♀️ The evil 😈 Catholic Church ⛪️ had put many innocent 😇 women to death ☠️ for being "witches" way back when just because they believed something stupid about them!! It's really all about power, control, and money 💰 even today the Catholic Church is considered a trillion dollar corporation 💰💰💰💰💰 when all of its assets are taken into consideration!! ✝️ Make no mistake about it, the church ⛪️ has been a major part of our history for centuries now ⚔️🗡️🛡️ Word, ppl, word!!
Even today there are quite a few laws that exist because "we are rich and want to make sure poor people can't become rich like us or obtain all the stuff we rich people like"
It’s B.C. and A.D. you buffoon. Ask Neil Degrasse Tyson. Christians made the calendar we still use to this very day. So stfu and say the correct thing.
Some weird laws are still around. Here we have a law (a very old one that was technically never repealed, not something that’s actually practised, at least I hope) that states of you find an unattended goat you’re allowed to kill it. Why you’d be into killing random goats? To eat it?
In response to the ad that came on before this no, I’m not worried about conceal carry in the state of New Hampshire. I am allowed to conceal carry without a permit and we don’t have too many problems here.
So the couldn't blow there nose cause they'd get horses sick but they didn't put 2 and 2 together and realize it's not a humor imbalance if you can get someone else sick.
Why did they think the body had 4 humors and that how we got sick? Did anyone think that was stupid and try to find other cures for ailments? Plus having all that poop and urine and trash around had to stink and somebody had to believe it couldn't be good for you. I feel like whatever a noble or king said was law and you weren't aloud to find a different answer
03:32 You seem like horses, so you look like it, so it has to be like that, you loud mouth dragons and sneezing means being in love and I can’t be in love with a horse face and if I sneeze around a horse face then I must be punished, right, Mo Cheri. You better don’t make me sneeze around you or you are a horse and need to be punished because horses are not holy anymore, the exact opposite is true, because of the demon mahisshasura !!!!!!!
One thing to take note on the subject of Sumptuary Laws and their increasing prevalence during the Late Middle Ages, is that these weren't targeted towards the poor, and it's kind of a misnomer to frame it that way. Rather, this was an attempt at curbing societal influence of the growing bourgeoisie class. As Europe progressed towards the early Modern Period, expansion of trade routes, government centralization, and a upper class eager for goods from abroad, created a growing mercantile class whose fortunes were swiftly beginning to rival the nobility. The upper classes were terrified at the prospect of being being supplanted.
Amazing what the public will suffer. Yet today war kills children. Their paintings are adults. Their wars are men. Are wars are woman and babies. We are getting worse.
In 1542, it was the Church of England which influenced the witchcraft laws – not the Catholic Church. Catholics were not involved in the Salem witch trials, either.
This remark is related to the shark's belly that held a gentleman's wedding ring. In San Francisco Bay a very large great white shark was pulled up and dissected. He died after eating the hull of a VW bug. He ate the car because it looked like a yummy turtle and it didn't have tires anymore having rotted at the bottom of the ocean for decades. Its funny to me to imagine a shark big enough to eat a small car, what a tummy ache. As a lifelong hippy this is hilarious growing up in the 70's I remember mom's carting 3-4 kids around in a tiny bug. Yes it was possible to raise kids without an SUV. It was totally unsafe but always a fun challenge to see how many kids and dogs you could hold in the bug.
@EverettvonNordeck-gf2cw
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
Fun fact, they have point shoe competitions in Mexico .
@gregorypkampwirth8852
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
I think the absurd insane law about executing so called "witches" is good one. First off, there is no God and second, just because some old bag has a cat 🐈⬛ doesn't necessarily imply that she is a witch 🧙♀️ The evil 😈 Catholic Church ⛪️ had put many innocent 😇 women to death ☠️ for being "witches" way back when just because they believed something stupid about them!! It's really all about power, control, and money 💰 even today the Catholic Church is considered a trillion dollar corporation 💰💰💰💰💰 when all of its assets are taken into consideration!! ✝️ Make no mistake about it, the church ⛪️ has been a major part of our history for centuries now ⚔️🗡️🛡️ Word, ppl, word!!
@ChristiColonel
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
A D. it's BC and Ad, not this abomination.
@David-ek4fh
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
Only commies use bce and ce. It’s BC and AD in the West.
@Davepool-hs7vr
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
Driving under influenza. Oh no.
@jfwfreo
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
Even today there are quite a few laws that exist because "we are rich and want to make sure poor people can't become rich like us or obtain all the stuff we rich people like"
@Kyle_Holland
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
It’s B.C. and A.D. you buffoon. Ask Neil Degrasse Tyson. Christians made the calendar we still use to this very day. So stfu and say the correct thing.
@intellectually_lazy
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
i think, i'd never watch a vin diesel movie called the last witch hunter
@intellectually_lazy
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
since you defined the middle ages as 500 to 1500, ketchup as we know it would not exist in england, as no one there had ever seen a tomato
@intellectually_lazy
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
henry viii was good at all sorts of things in his youth, like being catholic… and married once
@intellectually_lazy
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
not a sports fan, but the black death is an epic team name
@russellst.martin4255
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
You forgot the paddling of the swollen ass
@sorrycammy
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
Some weird laws are still around. Here we have a law (a very old one that was technically never repealed, not something that’s actually practised, at least I hope) that states of you find an unattended goat you’re allowed to kill it. Why you’d be into killing random goats? To eat it?
@anyaanstoli
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
Heresay was allowed
@raymondw.9991
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
Most of the sex laws were ignored by the nobility.
@Eric-qo8vv
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
In response to the ad that came on before this no, I’m not worried about conceal carry in the state of New Hampshire. I am allowed to conceal carry without a permit and we don’t have too many problems here.
@aresee8208
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
Horse racing is much older than the 12th century (it's quite ancient) and was certainly not invented in any English town.
@chadcramer4024
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
Horse dander? C'mon man
@mikewood8561
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
I'm positive sex was had everyday. No one cares about anything if they can get some. Lol
@mikewood8561
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
So the couldn't blow there nose cause they'd get horses sick but they didn't put 2 and 2 together and realize it's not a humor imbalance if you can get someone else sick.
@mikewood8561
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
Why did they think the body had 4 humors and that how we got sick? Did anyone think that was stupid and try to find other cures for ailments? Plus having all that poop and urine and trash around had to stink and somebody had to believe it couldn't be good for you. I feel like whatever a noble or king said was law and you weren't aloud to find a different answer
@mikewood8561
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
Are there rules like the 10 commandments that we still break today?
@erwingunther2569
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
03:32 You seem like horses, so you look like it, so it has to be like that, you loud mouth dragons and sneezing means being in love and I can’t be in love with a horse face and if I sneeze around a horse face then I must be punished, right, Mo Cheri. You better don’t make me sneeze around you or you are a horse and need to be punished because horses are not holy anymore, the exact opposite is true, because of the demon mahisshasura !!!!!!!
@FozzQuaker
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
When it comes to football, theres still a tradition in some villages and small towns who play annually on Shrove Tuesday
@hadara69
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
We laugh at their "clown shoes", but
THEY would laugh at our saggy "Pants on the ground, pants on the ground"… ♫ ♪
@hans-jurgenlangenhan3390
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
Die Frage am Schluss:
„Welches dieser Gesetze findet ihr am lächerlichsten?“
ist falsch formuliert.
Warum?
Es geht um Macht und Machterhalt.
Da gibt es keine Gnade.
Hat sich daran etwas geändert?
@11StarlingA
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
Zoning nerd here! I would love to watch a video on land use laws around the world.
@miguelbravo3472
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
And still to this age, the Catholic Church is still trying to control people.
@morgaen
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
Gesetzte die es nicht mehr gibt,kann man nicht verstoßen.
@ankhpom9296
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
Stinky is charged with blasphemy by desecrating the Bible. What is to be done to him?
@sachmo0196
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
Driving Under Infuenza is against the law…little mister!😢😂
@sachmo0196
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
So you are saying…Sock-him was the game? or Foot-ball was a shot to the??? SCOOOOORE! Oh my😢
@ussstropicana
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
5:43 Censored image ? STUPID.
@beoweasel
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
One thing to take note on the subject of Sumptuary Laws and their increasing prevalence during the Late Middle Ages, is that these weren't targeted towards the poor, and it's kind of a misnomer to frame it that way. Rather, this was an attempt at curbing societal influence of the growing bourgeoisie class. As Europe progressed towards the early Modern Period, expansion of trade routes, government centralization, and a upper class eager for goods from abroad, created a growing mercantile class whose fortunes were swiftly beginning to rival the nobility. The upper classes were terrified at the prospect of being being supplanted.
@keithallen5795
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
Amazing what the public will suffer. Yet today war kills children. Their paintings are adults. Their wars are men. Are wars are woman and babies. We are getting worse.
@lisalavadores1566
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
In 1542, it was the Church of England which influenced the witchcraft laws – not the Catholic Church. Catholics were not involved in the Salem witch trials, either.
@BarryFurey-ez3kc
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
Soccer is not banned today that fact is wrong lol
@SueFine
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
I think my arteries just clogged after watching this.
@annomaly751
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
The bad old days.
@professorsprout3382
April 3, 2026 at 9:37 pm
This remark is related to the shark's belly that held a gentleman's wedding ring. In San Francisco Bay a very large great white shark was pulled up and dissected. He died after eating the hull of a VW bug. He ate the car because it looked like a yummy turtle and it didn't have tires anymore having rotted at the bottom of the ocean for decades. Its funny to me to imagine a shark big enough to eat a small car, what a tummy ache. As a lifelong hippy this is hilarious growing up in the 70's I remember mom's carting 3-4 kids around in a tiny bug. Yes it was possible to raise kids without an SUV. It was totally unsafe but always a fun challenge to see how many kids and dogs you could hold in the bug.
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