The Three Sillies | Tall Tales from History #8

Join characters from history as they recount tall tales from medieval England.
In this final episode of the series, our seamster tells a cautionary and enduring tale about why the silly people right in front of our noses may not offer the full picture...
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[@stigyanblue1442]

I've met people equally stupid. Some of them are my relatives. We had to convince my uncle that roosters don't lay eggs.

[@crescentlady]

I was really rooting that he would finally thread the needle 🪡

[@jimmysgameclips]

I was worried he was to die because he went to fetch ale and hadn't noticed the hammer back on the shelf 😅

[@TameraJacobs]

It can't be the last episode! Say it isn't so! I enjoy all of them.

[@Doll.xox111]

I love this channel sm-

[@telemachus53]

English Heritage you've hit the jackpot again! What a story, storyteller and content. Great!

[@Jane-gt6ef]

And a good luck to you, sir! What a wonderful story! Thanks!

[@floralfemme4700]

I really loved this series, it's cool hearing stories people entertained each other with hundreds of years ago.

[@blacky_Ninja]

Well at least the idiocy of the three farmers was well intentioned to not hurt anyone, while the rest of the bunch were literally so dumb that it hurt them.

[@halliehasslinger9663]

Legend says he's still trying to thread that needle...

[@Linnet09]

Great version of a traditional tale. I know people like that today, who spend so much time crying about what might happen tomorrow that they don't enjoy today! And people who try "clever" solutions to problems, only to find that they make things worse or aren't needed at all. We're all a bit silly, and silly people are everywhere.

[@LisaLee__]

Oh my goodness I'm in giggles with now the mother crying on the floor with her daughter lolll just move the hammer ! 😅😅😅

[@miriambucholtz9315]

As I was watching this, I felt that the story was familiar. When he reached the part about the moon in the pond, the memory of an illustration from some book I had as a little girl came into my mind. I think what I took away from the story as a child was to be careful not to try to be the silliest person around and to learn to solve my own problems.

[@paulineserpe6300]

I think the French Canadian Animation "Little Bear" reference the moon part. Little Bear and his friends tried to scoop the moon out of the pond with a bucket.

[@gimmealargesalad]

Can we get more of these with this guy? He's so funny!

[@emmaflint6126]

Absolutely love these! ☺

[@Lucysmom26]

Mid-80s Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. My parents took us kids to see a play. All I remember is the name (The Three Sillies) and a) the townsfolk trying to get the moon out of the pond and b) the group of people weeping over an axe that might fall on a loved one. In the play the axe was hung over a well and people were crying about it falling down on someone trying to get water. I would have been very small at the time, not much older than 5, and all these years I've particularly remembered the image of trying to grasp the moon's reflection out of the water. My parents are English so now I'm wondering if they took us to the play because they remembered the story from their own childhoods in England? Either way it's so nice to see this posted here - I watched the whole thing and will send it to my siblings.

[@theresaschuebel5151]

I always enjoy his stories

[@msgeng5267]

I am so I love with your story telling!

[@750604]

Love this.

[@obsidianrosestudio2663]

I always enjoy this story 😄

[@brokensymphony]

England's Medieval clothes👏

[@Jojo1982-j1k]

I laughed with that one 😂😂😂 I would like to watch it as a short movie or sketch

[@missbackwoods]

I love these stories tysm

[@ShellyS2060]

Thank you for telling me a story

[@damla9856]

Wonderful story-telling. Love the atmosphere and the stories😂❤️

[@edo0girl2.03]

This story is so silly! Had me in stitches the whole time!

[@Bildgesmythe]

Wonderful story

[@user-nk4pp8cn3f]

Wow, what a tale! I nearly laughed my head off!

[@yanayana759]

👍😊

[@planet23k]

10:34 "I'm going to leave this place, I'm going to travel out tomorrow to see if I can find, in the space of three days, three people who are more silly than you. And if I can, I will marry elsewhere. But if I discover that you are **not** the three silliest people in the county, then I will return and I will marry your daughter". Now, English may not be my native language so perhaps there's something I don't understand, however... Second part of the above quoted sentence ("But if I discover... [...]")makes sense, alas the first doesn't. First he says that if he finds 3 people sillier than farmer's family, he will marry ELSEWHERE - but after that he instantly says that if he will discover 3 people sillier than farmer's family, then he will marry HERE (that is, that farmer's daughter). So in essence, if he will find 3 people sillier than the farmer's family, he will BOTH marry elsewhere AND here. Is that some kind of Schroedinger's marriage story, or I've misunderstood the words or their meanings? :D I've been waiting for some plot twist at the ending, but apparently it's some kind of a mistake in the text.

[@wickidbloodymetalqueen7901]

I 💕 story time

[@EphemeralProductions]

Silly story but it illustrates a good moral.

[@debbralehrman5957]

Thank you

[@KairuHakubi]

i was expecting some kind of pun at the end there

[@animula6908]

I feel attacked

[@GoldCatPrincess]

Good luck to you also, Sir, and fare thee well on thy journey! And if chance and good fortune bring thee a kind, gentle, wise maid, take her to wife, and she will gladden thine heart, brighten thy days and give thee many children!

[@RestingBitchface7]

I’ve never seen anyone spend so much time threading a needle. LOL

[@HandyHelons]

I seriously wanted the farmer, his wife and his daughter to have engineered the other silly things 😂

[@joanhoffman3702]

I’ve encountered this story before, with the future victim being a future child of the couple. It’s still funny. Edit: this is a variation I hadn’t heard before. It’s funnier. The moon in the pond bit was really silly.

[@katherinemcconnell1531]

….🌀Brilliant🌀….

[@embers_desu14]

Medieval Hank Schrader??

[@rupertmathwin9747]

A variant of this is in 'The Red Fairy Book'

[@Art8mis]

Would love to see how the made scones in Victorian era

[@qingnanduan8180]

Very good story! Wish our tales can be preserved like the English ones too. Phones & tablets are slowly murdering our traditions.

[@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647]

Good stories I must say my cousin Popsicle his nickname could tell some "yarns" but there was sometimes my dad could outdo him on the storytelling I miss them both glad I have you to fill the void :)

[@nataschat.1100]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍🏼🤦‍♀️ ❤❤❤❤👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@GalaxyHasSweatStains]

Is this guy an oompa loompa??

[@pattizayas1051]

what man sews?

[@n.w.flannel3463]

Many men? What do you mean?

[@devchekhov7512]

How is the farmer's family less silly than the old woman and the cow, the businessman and the trousers, and the village folk and the moon? Maybe the village folk are cursed with ignorance, the old woman is beyond reasoning with, etc. Maybe there's hope for the farmer's daughter because she's too young. 🤷🏻

[@floydwheeler5430]

Thanks for this!!! Need more views? -> P R O M O S M!

[@hazarbuyukakpnar1356]

This is the most boring story I've heard

[@tapsars7911]

What a stupid story . Totally unbelievable too . Utter rubbish without a doubt .

[@loriar1027]

🙄 It’s not supposed to be believable. It’s meant to teach a lesson.

[@Lucysmom26]

You sound fun.

[@janehollander1934]

🤔I would have thought that a person from India would be familiar with old fantasy folk stories. That try to carry a moral across, like a parable, to its listeners.✌🏻

[@tapsars7911]

@@janehollander1934 You know that I am from India ??