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We have really been seeing them, see you now available. Where ever you get. My guests welcomes stuff. You missed in history class from house of works, dot, com, Welcome to the pan out, I'm kidding, neighbours can unfair daddy and before we start today is pursued we'd like to say that there is a lot of grisly content in this particular part cast, and it's not appropriate for kids. This is a radar podcast and you should not be fooled by our fairytale title, which is of where's, who was the real bluebeard and there are many versions of the Bluebeard story, but the one most of us now comes from Charles Pro. Who was the french author of many a fairytale gonna, be strange ain't you know, but the story of Bluebeard isn't a nice fairytale? It's a grimly.

In the story. A blue bearded man has had many wives, but they all disappear, and no one knows what's become of them But yet another woman is married to him against her will and after their marriage, Bluebeard leaves her in charge of the house with an admonition to stay out of this one particular room, but she, of course, is human and countries, and when she opened the door all she sees is blood and dead bodies on hooks which are the wife's before her and impose tale. Of course, the wife is rescued at the last. Small met, but in the story we're gonna tell that is possibly the inspiration for the tale. The rescues were not to be had so before we get to all the gory nets. Let's talk a little bit about who were dealing with shields I was born in fourteen o four thereabouts. There are some discrepancies as to the year, and he was the son,

of GDP of and Merida Car and his father. And when he was young. He and his brother Renee were raised by their grandfather, and he was me he'd young as well at sixteen to contain the two are who was also very rich, and I cannot emphasise enough just how rich Gerais was. He was probably the richest nobleman Europe, but even then they were some rumours about him that weren't, so nice part of this legend was that he had been affianced a few times before I train, but they all died. Really. The reality is probably just that the betrothal were broken off he's impressive as a young man too, though, in addition to being extremely wealthy, he distinguished

fighting regime dark in the hundred years for Joan of ARC, of course, and he was there for the siege of Orleans and was recognised for being extremely brave right. He was made marshal of France are aged twenty five by Charles, the seventh because of everything he done in the war then there comes a switch and his life Gilles, tired of military life and his grandfather, who may have been a check on his actions, died when he was in his young thirties, so, he began spending so remember how gigantic this fortune is. He spends pretty much all of it Much of it was on theatrical productions. He loved pudding, is very lavish plays for free, he hired hundreds of extras and but have hundreds of costumes constructed and then just thrown away, and he would beginning and he spent a lot of his money and body guards and courtiers and entertaining-

swell things. Tat might be more expected than his own personal, theatrical production, and he also built a very fancy charcoal the chapel of holiness, and in case you don't remember, biblically the holy innocence. All the innocent little boys that Herod had killed too. You know avoid Jesus coming along and serving as power. This is come into play a little later. Remember the holy innocence you eventually spend much money on all these plays in these building projects that his family goes to. The king seek An intervention and the king agrees to make life very difficult for him in earlier, so he laughed and he went to Brittany and around the same time being so wealthy, but also falling into this pit of money despair. He fell prey to

any con man and when he started to go broke he turned to a rather bizarre way of making money, at least to my mind, alchemy He started spending lateral away. He will literally turn other things into gold. He said dealing with a call tests and neck romancers, and you know thought maybe he could sell us old Satan for wealth depending on you know how that went so more money, more problems, and I said earlier, but it turns out there. Not all he was doing at the time and he had many other unsavory activities going on and his first murder was read after his grandfather died and again this is little hard to listen to. You probably was heard first to research,

but his victims were usually young boys. They were tortured, raped and killed. He'd often hang them from hucks according the testimony, but take them down to comfort down when they cried saying that he was only playing with them before he put them back and start the torturing again. Sometimes he would rape them ass. They were dying. He also liked to cut them open and look at their insides and laughed while they died. So this is pretty much the most Dumont Portrait of a man you can imagine he also go to sleep afterwards found when it was all done. He'd have somebody else clean it up, so some of the boys were kidnapped somewhere tricked into coming. You know by saying maybe they'd get an apprenticeship at the castle. Some showed up unawares of what was going on, tricked into it, and no one knows exactly how many children he killed. There is a huge discrepancy as far as numbers estimates range from the dozens more than six

I'll send. So you don't even know where he stands in that series of no prolific serial killers that you think of. But of course he wasn't alone. You can't you can't do killings like death and especially if it was more in the scale of thousand without accomplices in one of them was yield to seal, who brought boys to one of the castles and helped clean up after after the murders had taken place and help lie for him. It obviously These concerned parents who are wondering where their children have gone, and he would them that their sons had been sent to the king. The train is pages in. I had all these great opportunities and that's why they disappeared, says suddenly another one of his accomplice. This does H E Korea, who is known as Portugal and with his testimony we learned a little bit more about what happened in that coffee. Some anonymous damning testimony against him came from this guy and he

talked about killing the boys because sometimes shield- or I didn't like to do it on his own he'd, rather have someone else to it and he liked to play with the dead bodies, so his accomplices tell them by decapitation or dismemberment or cutting our throats breaking her neck, and he also said usually when only allowed to stay alive. For one night and another accomplice was pre in my time, who is also known, as I'm afraid or the terror, and she sounds straight out of a fairytale. Some very scary, evil character she was the procure of many of the children. She would wander around in a long cloak. Looking for them. She Send me the shivers yeah and that's according to some accounts. Some of this is based on little historical evidence and a lot of it is based on tales of the time, but that, of course, is part of the allure of his story. Must be wondering like Sarah, and I did how on earth, if you ve done

these terrible things, especially if the body count as up to about six thousand. He wasn't found out and it turns out that he's of was old, knew what was going on, especially the peasants around their their kids were disappearing, and his castle at my school got the reputation of being this evil place where people each shoulder and like the surrounding villages, that's what they said. If someone else came from Moscow alone, that's the place. I, with the recommendation that preceded the and some of his family and friends must have known what was going on to some people have argued, at least at one point. He send some of his minions to clean up his castles when he knows that family with coming over, but I couldn't get rid of, The skeletons and body parts that littered the castle in the towers of the castles were filled

blood and bodies that were later burned and tossed into the mood and just a nun straight out of the blue beard, hell yeah. He was almost caught several times. According the sun accounts, he was reckless about what he was doing. He wasn't even trying very hard to hide it, because he was we very rich and very powerful and pretty we're afraid of fairly invincible owing sure, so he wasn't arrested until he objected a priest from a church which so ridiculous you're people thought he was killing and raping child but you know once you check that pleased at about higher than a why? Don't I've been crossed so the bishop started investigation not all of these rumours and then passed on to more secular sources of power who did their own investigation so

ultimately charged with murder, sodomy and heresy and, of course, kidnapping the priests from a church. His trial was in fourteen forty and at first he wouldn't make a plea and he denied the charges and even said this court didn't have jurisdiction over him, but then here's a twist, the church excommunicated him and he was terrified that he would go to Hell. So he admitted to some of his crimes and begged to be readmitted to the church and that's the crazy thing about jailed array, all the things I was reading. He was tormented by the idea of what would happen.

Is eternal soul and he was very religious. He built that chapel of the holy innocence, hoping it would expiate some of his son who, in some one who fights alongside Joan of arc to imagine, you will have seen miracle fervour of your religion. If you are fighting with her, so you have to somehow reconcile this idea of him as a gig ling. Child ray it's too killed and killed again with the idea of someone who wasn't even a sociopath, someone who had remorse for everything he done and yet wouldn't stop, and that's the scary part, because you can't say that he was just mentally ill. He knew what he was doing. He was sorry for what he was doing and he kept you stop doing he's, also accused of summoning demons and dabbling in the cold, and all of this with a guy named French. Go for and

thing of children's innerds sacrifices that call up the devil, but going back to that religious, However, these are charges that he would not admit to initially none of those say tanning staff, none of the summoning up the demons, those were things he would not say that he did until he was threatened with torture, and then he admitted everything or someone who has tortured knows full well just that's like, so all of the gory gory details came out during the trial. For example, some of his associates said he bathed in blood which reminded us of Elizabeth Battery, which I think canvassing Josh POD costs. There's another article on it, so the end of all this and after his confession, sees sentence to be hanged and burned, which interesting kind of alone, your fate than Joan of ARC or not like here, but his body

get out of the flames and buried and before he died, he sermonized through the crowd and proclaimed himself a devout in good man, so he was brought back into the churches fold at the very end of this confession, repenting. But that was the end of bluebeard and again the question: how can a man be a hero of war, with Saint Joan, no less and also a ruthless child murderer? Some historians have argued that Jill to re didn't do it that he was framed for what had happened. There was someone else committing the murders and because there were other people who had an interest in being on for financial reasons, he was set up and others also say that the trial was a farce,

and I mean how much can you trust a confession made under threat of torture? It wasn't her worst confession, so is that even something you don't you can say is real and on Evelyn, and presumably his collaborators are under similar pressure. Oh yes, two of them were killed as well and they did not get to be taken out of the flames they were burned to ash, but to set a bring this story the circle. We gonna end it how he began with the story of Bluebeard and this country, action. We were talking about earlier somebody who is clearly not just a sociopath who has no sense of right. I mean he's somebody who repents what he's doing he just can't stop doing. It is wont to your one thought: is it's hard for people?

to make sense of into handle and so consequently a sense than there. Then all these myths that have sprung up around him in comparison to demonic creatures, right, like vampires, are werewolves, because I guess it's easier to believe that someone was driven by something evil, something other than their own. And desires to commit such terrible because a vampire the motive, a werewolf, has a motive thing regaining a rain it. Yes, and the idea is not a vampire than where the blue beard were all made after the back no hunger

and explaining right. There are people who say that he was just trying to emulate another monster of history. Click allow who keeps popping up lately, so we are going to have to do tat. Maybe after we run me little brain Gore here to end on a lighter note, if you're interested in supernatural creatures, like the entire and where laws we have, some pretty plant, have article on them on urban age, W W W that how stuff works, dot, com for more on this and thousands of other topics, because it how stuff works, dot, com and be sure to check out. The study must, in history, glass, blood, honest efforts to counter this episode is brought to you by mulatto cookies work, something

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