European Prisoner Describes Life Among Cannibals of Brazil (1557) // Nightmare of Hans Staden

[@VoicesofthePast]

It was his second visit. Probably a good idea to pick up a couple of words of the local language no? EDIT: also, French and German are two different languages

[@Areyousayingidontknowmyname]

Interesting story. But i keep being drawn back to a Black Adder Episode in the First Series when he was to marry the Infanta. When they are having the wedding night and the Translator is there talking through it. I was envisioning a translator trussed up and translating for him.

[@Areyousayingidontknowmyname]

also side note i wonder if they fed him human meat while he lived there

[@arturmangolim9385]

@@Areyousayingidontknowmyname no, they didn't. I live a few miles from the place he was captured in Brazil, and I also read his book. The Tupinambas didn't fed themselves with human flesh, it was more actually a ritual. But they eat everything from the body, even the cock. Yeah, gross. But I can affirm that to you because most of their diet were incorporated in the Portuguese diets, and we use to eat this things till today. No human flesh....so far.

[@bboybeatle]

Yet he understood everything they were saying to him apparently 🤔

[@arturmangolim9385]

But he did. He could speak Tupi very well. He spand a couple of years with the indians before he was taken prisioner. It is on the book. That's actually a scene in the book where he speaks with a French guy, the only way one can understand each other was because both of then speaks Tupi. Very interesting.

[@crookedpaths6612]

Hans: Help me fellow Christian! Frenchman: I recommend sautéing him with herbs and a clove of garlic. He’ll go especially well with a fine merlot.

[@hansberger4939]

and dont forget to pray bevore eating him!

[@alejandrograciarey9438]

Hans: I managed to understand the methods and motives of this cannibal tribe of the new world Frenchman: bonjour Hans: I have no idea what he is saying

[@hansberger4939]

@@alejandrograciarey9438 God will forgive you. But dont forget to saythe grace before eating men.

[@nuetron98]

🤣 😂 😜

[@lalaboards]

Lol !!!!!!!

[@tonygorilla8928]

There's a Brazilian film about Hans' adventures. The interesting thing about it is that the actors speak in ancient Tupi.

[@bernhardjordan9200]

With accent from Bahia

[@mayumimaria2453]

What's the name?

[@tonygorilla8928]

@@mayumimaria2453 The flick is called "Hans Staden".

[@MysteryD]

You'd think the interesting thing about it would be the whole story.

[@tonygorilla8928]

@@MysteryD I should have been clearer: obviously the history is the most interesting bit, however, the film is far from a masterpiece. Its saving grace is the fact that they speak ancient Tupi.

[@sikid4000]

Hans Staden: Please don't let them eat me! Frenchmen: lol but they want to eat you

[@sherlocksmuuug6692]

"I don't know dude, they make a pretty good argument."

[@sikid4000]

@Mëïstër Ëmm Bro...what?

[@129jasper1]

@Eastern fence Lizard yes, very buttery with a hint of garlic.

[@Growmetheus]

The guy wasnt french, he was portuguese and didnt want to get eaten, just showed up first!

[@Epck]

Literally unbelievable

[@nocomment2468]

It’s interesting that the king cried that he was losing a son when Hans left. That’s what’s so weird about cannibalism. How this same man was humiliated as human livestock to feed village families, and later was loved as family. It’s just mind-boggling.

[@arcguardian]

It's not that weird, the only difference is they were willing to eat him. Ppl can adopt prisoners as fam. It's not like cannibalism is what led to the bond.

[@luvlols4462]

@@julinaonYT some cultures today still practice mortuary cannibalism as a sign of respect for the departed or to help them stay with the tribe even after death.

[@eurasiaacaci.-110]

We have same attachment to farm animals to a an extent which is why you don't really want to give it a name especially when you know it will most like be killed for a birthday party 4 months later.

[@devvv4616]

seems like a lot of time has passed since then, and he was seen as some powerful shaman by the time cos he supposedly caused the death of people who were cruel to him. that's why he was saying the king was mad at some of his people who still wanted to eat him

[@STRIK3RM4N]

There were some cultures that practiced just plain ol’ cannibalism, but Brazilian anthropophagia wasn’t just plain cannibalism. It was a whole ritual about respecting your enemies; devouring them meant absorbing their strength so you’d be like them. It was a show of immense respect to the devoured, who would feel honoured to be in that position, dying a warrior’s death. It has a logic behind it, even though it’s weird, and the whole phenomenon was later repurposed by Oswald de Andrade in a manifest as a metaphor for the way Brazilians devour cultural aspects of other peoples’ and vomit back something new to the world during São Paulo’s Modern Art Week of 1922.

[@DATA-qt3nb]

This should honestly be a movie, the ambitious beginning that leads to his capture then followed by him getting his hopes up that a Frenchman nearby might help him get out of things, great review as always though!

[@victor.guilherme1995]

It already is. I don't know the name in English but in portuguese is "como era gostoso o meu francês"

[@DATA-qt3nb]

Very cool! Thanks for the info guys

[@ErickeTR]

There is also a movie directly based on him called just "Hans Staden". It was on KZbin, but it seems like it was deleted.

[@numberg8238]

@JZ's Best Friend Knowledge is power; France is bacon

[@sayuas4293]

Liberals would be too offended

[@RyllenKriel]

You know it's desperate times when a German has to ask a French guy for help.

[@gilbertoantoniomartins1323]

LOL...Ain't it?

[@mikeno8192]

They did in WW2….and were helped considerably….armistice and collaboration…

[@numbers4851]

@@mikeno8192 that’s a bit different though. It’s not asking as much as it is demanding help. Especially when they had rifles pointing at them.

[@hurtigheinz3790]

Especially if it's the 16th century and there is no Germany.

[@numbers4851]

@@hurtigheinz3790 Sure Germany wasn’t a country but there still was a land of the Germans.

[@RodrigoMera]

This guy had balls of steel and incredible wit, also a great deal of faith

[@BRUZR66]

You'd be surprised what you can do

[@joaodenardi9075]

and also a great deal of luck, lets not forget that for each Hans Staden there were many europeans who actually got eaten by the tupinamba

[@SrDavidAragon]

Actually, the natives must have considered him a weak man or a coward, since he was kept alive, be it not worthy of the cerimonial feast destined to absorb the strength of the bravest warriors.

[@jacklefilet8275]

He also owned other humans as property so he was also a barbaric savage.

[@BRUZR66]

@@jacklefilet8275 all people's have owned and traded slaves. Are you insinuating all people are savages?

[@blususpect]

The way you presented this was as if I was hearing it directly from Hans Staden himself in 1557. I think this may be one of my favorite historical channels, amazing work!

[@onlyme219]

Historical, really. The dude had no idea about the French language but was perfectly fluent in the canibal tribes' lauguage

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

@@onlyme219 Because it was HANS 2nd visit..

[@onlyme219]

@@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13 fair point

[@Loser0365]

This is about as far as a historical account as possible. It is a script

[@wilhelmhause3510]

​@@Loser0365it's a mix of journal entries and shared accounts.

[@the98themperoroftheholybri33]

Imagine the emotion he must've felt when he returned, I'd never want to leave home again

[@hansberger4939]

perhaps he was missing all the nude young women, when back in germany?

[@sgtbma1]

Yup , bet he got all that traveling out of his system!

[@lollllolll.]

@@hansberger4939 to be fair, i wouldn't want to give up a limb for bitches. But who knows Hans was probably a dedicated player so you might be right

[@adamlopez5060]

That's what you think, but sometimes one adventure is not enough

[@josephsalmonte4995]

@@adamlopez5060 Give it a rest mate. Not all adventurers are captured by cannibals lol

[@stanisawzokiewski3308]

"they should kill me with my beard" -some german Chad

[@lucasfff1370]

French guy to tribesman: "So this is the guy that claims he's French?" Tribesman: "yes, he says so" French guy: "Do you speak French sir?" Hans: "eehh... baguette?"

[@Tadechicotah]

Graze

[@kamion53]

"Omelette au fromage" ( Dexter's Lab)

[@Bojanglesz89]

“Uuuhh… baguette?” ROFLMAO 🤣

[@ommsterlitz1805]

To not speak French back then was to be considered illiterate (hence why still to this all modern Europeans languages have so much common French words in their dictionary)

[@TheKnellBelle]

😂😂😂 That seems really Monte Python. I love it!

[@attemptedunkindness3632]

Hans: "Please God save me from these cannibals!" Various European Diseases: "Don't worry, I got you covered."

[@grungeisdead8998]

Lol yeah I was thinking like damn I guess all them diseases Europeans carried with them came in real handy

[@Sercer25]

Probably the jungle alcohol they drank dude.

[@TRHARTAmericanArtist]

Well, they did grace us with syphilis and lung cancer.

[@attemptedunkindness3632]

@@TRHARTAmericanArtist Syphilis? Yes. Cancer? No. Ah, wait I see what you did there. Tobacco. The deadliest spice of life besides opium and cocaine and of course skooma.

[@Squintel7]

​@@attemptedunkindness3632Way too much of a coincidence to just be the European illnesses... They started dropping dead a few days after the German recited to them a curse from the moon.

[@mattsavigny6084]

The accounts of Cabeza de Vaca are also incredible. He was a Spaniard captured by a tribe in the same region, survived by using his knowledge of medicine to heal the natives and gain their trust.

[@Carlos.hpg.]

No, "Naufragios" of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca has nothing to do with Brazil, Vaca shipwreck in modern Florida and he was found in the state of Sinaloa in Mexico 8 years later. Alvar even bacame "chaman" and doctor of some tribes, and he lived along the indigenous as a well placed person.

[@mattsavigny6084]

@@Carlos.hpg. Ok, I was confused. But Cabeza de Vaca was also the first european to see the Iguazú falls, when he explored that region of South America in a later expedition. His story is crazy anyhow.

[@kew4395]

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈalβaɾ ˈnũɲeθ kaˈβeθa ðe ˈβaka] (About this soundlisten); c. 1488/1490/1492[1] - c. 1557/1558/1559[1]/1560[2]) was a Spanish explorer of the New World, and one of four survivors of the 1527 Narváez expedition. During eight years of traveling across what is now the US Southwest, he became a trader and faith healer to various Native American tribes before reconnecting with Spanish civilization in Mexico in 1536. After returning to Spain in 1537, he wrote an account, first published in 1542 as La relación y comentarios ("The Account and Commentaries"[3]), which in later editions was retitled Naufragios y comentarios ("Shipwrecks and Commentaries"). Cabeza de Vaca is sometimes considered a proto-anthropologist for his detailed accounts of the many tribes of Native Americans that he encountered.[4] In 1540, Cabeza de Vaca was appointed adelantado of what is now Paraguay, where he was governor and captain general of New Andalusia.[5] He worked to build up the population of Buenos Aires but, charged with poor administration, he was arrested in 1544 and then transported to Spain for trial in 1545. Although his sentence was eventually commuted, he never returned to the Americas. He died in Seville.

[@stobbinsboy]

@Thoth Al Khem And is now popularly spelled C de Vaca or Baca.

[@hepatus1]

Cabeza de Vaca has never been on São Paulo or Rio de Janeiro's States. On his second voyage to America he has been on Santa Catarina State, which is about 500km (~310 miles) southern of the place where Hans Staden was captured by Tupinambás Indians. Santa Catarina was inhabited by Guaranis people. After Santa Catarina he went to Rio da Prata in order to start a colony where nowadays is the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina's capital city. But it is also a wonderful story indeed.

[@georgebrand3994]

German : Help me my fellow Christian! Frenchman : 𝐈 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞.

[@cassianoneto1553]

“Sorry dude, I hold these guys in higher regard than some random man from who knows where”

[@DevinDTV]

I'm surprised the Frenchman wouldn't at least confirm to the natives that hans is German the first time around. That's a bizarrely dick move.

[@Yeorl]

Do we know why he did that? Or was he just some psycho? Lol

[@ErickeTR]

@@Yeorl Hans was a mercenary to the Portuguese, and the Portuguese were at war against the French in Brazil.

[@LesangdesdieuX]

As a french i find this hilarious "German uh ? Tought luck.. Yup he's portugese just eat him guys !"

[@pmancovert]

I found it absolutely ironic how Hans could speak a language that only this small group of tribes in South Eastern Brazil understands, but he can't speak French to save his own life the one time it mattered. Edit the amount of people who can't see the irony is baffling.

[@Igor_054]

That was not in the Amazon, though. Hans was in Southeastern Brazil.

[@SagittariusSatellitium]

He spent enough time in captivity to learn the language

[@badoww4921]

yah, he learned their language in a month of bein poked and bullied. i lost interest

[@SagittariusSatellitium]

@@badoww4921 Well when you are in a cage there is not much else to do.

[@mandrade019]

He was already working for a Portugal fort for a couple of years(5 if I remember correctly) Had enough time to learn.

[@Strype13]

The cannibalistic thought process can certainly be a strange one to consider, indeed. As they boil and cook a man's flesh and innards, they set aside the head and intestines. A captive asks, "you aren't going to eat those parts?" to which they respond, "Ewww! What are you, crazy? That's disgusting!"

[@TadanGirl]

If it wasn't morally wrong to kill another human being, we would be eating eachother in desperate times and no one would question it. Our meat is no different from animal meat, we just think it's twisted to eat our meat because you've got to harm someone else to do that. We have no problem drinking cow's milk that came from a cow's titty, or even INSECTS, but we find yucky the idea of eating human meat...

[@nola504creole5]

@@TadanGirl you are a 🤡

[@TadanGirl]

@@nola504creole5 okay…? Sorry your mother hated you growing up lad, it’s gonna be okay.

[@lamb6320]

@@TadanGirl the thing with canabalism morality aside aren't there health risk with the DNA and all that jazz.

[@nola504creole5]

@@lamb6320 she got dropped when she was a baby she doesn't know any better

[@gj1234567899999]

Brazil after losing 7-1 to Germany in World Cup: what did we ever do to Germany??? Germany: well let me tell you about Hans Staden...

[@freckleheckler6311]

God I love this comment. Thanks for the well lived chuckle. I was feeling very down this morning and you cheered me up ☺️

[@armink4071]

holy shit, this comment made me laugh so hard xD thank you

[@SarahRodriguesFromBrazil]

This joke is no longer funny🥲

[@henriquem.9763]

Battle of Collecchio

[@hansberger4939]

I think the germans overdone their revenge.

[@thezaher]

I bet Hans deeply regretted not taking French in school.

[@temptemp4174]

"guttentag mein fellow Christian! :^) " "It's le g*rman, you can eat him"

[@swoowoo3063]

He would still have an accent

[@numbers4851]

@@swoowoo3063 the frenchie probably would have recognized what accent it was. I can hear the accent of a German speaking English

[@doobiestudios1107]

@@swoowoo3063 not necessarily. Lots of people are just really good with learning languages and have perfect accents.

[@doobiestudios1107]

@@swoowoo3063 I’m Brazilian and when I lived in the USA ive met many fellow Brazilians who spoke such perfect English that I couldn’t tell they were Brazilians until they told me after seeing the tattoo with the Brazilian flag I have lol

[@sushicat1666]

This guy is an absoute madlad. Not only did he used his intelect and oppertunism to survive this ordeal. He had some of that rock solid faith to drag him along this horrible adventure. Salute to you Hans Staden

[@MintGum69]

spoiler, he made this up lmao

[@brentmiller3951]

Faith in his sky daddy helped him make up this lie just like the writers of the bible who said slavery is good and rape is a property crime

[@drphosferrous]

You gotta wonder what he would have tasted like though. What kinds of spices did they use back then? That part of the story was never resolved.

[@BumboLooks]

@@MintGum69 Spoiler, many Brazilian groups were avid cannibals...

[@orwellianyoutube8978]

Hard to believe this story though. Hans sounds like he loves to emhelish stories.

[@mattdelarosa6819]

A man of great faith! This was a really interesting and entertaining account.. he was steadfast in his faith and sharp in his wit, combining to gain freedom for himself. Loved it!

[@downwiththemaster]

​@@DG-iw3ywno one cares

[@HistoryTime]

Amazing. What a story

[@captindo]

The story you did on the Sea Peoples was amazing, this is a comedy of errors lol. Don't matter what era of humanity, humans will human.

[@jamesgratton6516]

Fake tho

[@ClipCoyote]

The viruses he carried probably saved his life. His shock at the idea of him being eaten comes through very well in your recitation. This was one of my favorites. Thank you for your work!!!

[@joellaz9836]

It seems like he was far more afraid of being eaten than actually being killed.

[@danilapolesciuk4316]

@@joellaz9836 most people would

[@ClipCoyote]

@@joellaz9836 Definitely!

[@joee7850]

I wonder why the Native viruses didn't affect the Europeans?

[@Wings_of_foam]

Lol, no shit Sherlock :D Did you figure this out on your own?

[@sikid4000]

This guy is so based he'd rather have his eyebrows shaved than his beard.

[@FDCLDN]

The beard was hiding his swastika tattoo

[@sikid4000]

@@FDCLDN Lmao the savages would pull out their iPhone and get on Twitter real quick

[@FDCLDN]

@@sikid4000 All cultures are equal they say haha

[@sikid4000]

@@FDCLDN I used to say

[@Philipp.of.Swabia]

@@FDCLDN bruh xD

[@mariedebruijn3260]

At 00:35 I noticed that the writing is almost the same as modern Dutch (The Netherlands) and does not use modern German sentence structure and vocabulary. I already knew that most European languages did not become standardized until the nineteenth century and that the lines between the Germanic languages were blurred, but it was still interesting to see such a clear example of it. Loved this video, keep up the good work!

[@Kameeho]

At that moment, Hans looked into the moon and thought to himself. "I should have brought ze flammenwerfer."

[@Bolghar_wolf]

king shit

[@mullythebully5557]

should have brought a panzakampfwagon VI

[@galimir]

And then he sent der Führer down there ,and he came with the Uboat(true story) 😎

[@Bolghar_wolf]

@George Lynch Dixon bro imagine the wermacht came out of antarctica to save the civilization

[@NRG56]

Lmaoo

[@franciscoalvim2689]

A classic in Brazilian education! In São Paulo everybody had heard about him in history classes at school. but we never read what he wrote about in his near death experience here. funny to hear it from the first time!

[@peterlustig6888]

In what context do you learn about him?

[@franciscoalvim2689]

@@peterlustig6888 to learn about how Europeans understood the new world and the indigenous people here and in São Paulo. It is one of the few moments in school wich we learn about indigenous interaction with europeans.

[@hansberger4939]

@@franciscoalvim2689 Interesting that you know him. But... hes adventures are taught in school but none of his own writings and statements? Strange. Greetings from Munich / Germany.

[@franciscoalvim2689]

​@@hansberger4939 when i learned about him i was like 10 years old. In my experience most people learn about him in this age at school. I supose that because of our age we dont dive deeper in his writings. Its like some kind of oral tradicion at this point. For instace, i could swear that the way Staden manage to escape death was by criyng every time they said they would eat him, because to this people, to eat someone meant to incorporate them into yourself, and you dont want to become a coward, so you are not going to eat him. And by playing with this that he manage to run away. but here i learned otherwise. So maybe we should start reading him a bit more hehehe. Greatings from São Paulo/ Brazil!

[@edyaoki450]

Para falar a verdade, não me lembro de ter aprendido na escola sobre Hans Staden e se não fosse a internet não teria o descoberto ou redescoberto. Talvez foi uma aula que nunca prestei atenção. A história continua incrível e interessante!

[@92GreyBlue]

"Cursed is he who puteth his trust in man" -Jeremiah

[@cosmotect]

What a terrible message

[@ongobongo8333]

the Bible is immoral and teaches the wrong things for living a virtuous life

[@cosmotect]

@Zack Of All TradesHow easily you have forgotten all the great things that mankind does. We are a force and a part of nature. Our sentience is young and we are figuring ourselves out as we go. The stupidest idea is to trust yourself in some mythical higher power, when there are so many great minds right here, right beside you. The only way humanity reaches the day when suffering is a thing of the past (if that is even a good thing) is when every single person looks at another with kindness and respect, and this is not the kind of a message that will bring us there. Its designed to divide us and control like sheep. This is all but obvious

[@anim8dideas849]

facts mankind is evil

[@SumiNaga19]

For Christians, we must read the bible and pray everyday like how we eat and drink daily to grow spiritually, Go for fasting occasionally and check out Derek Prince

[@btbb3726]

Just found this channel. I’m finding the voice/narration on this channel to be much more listenable than most of the other such channels that I’ve visited. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@Magotropical]

You should look for Pero Vaz de Caminha letter describing Brazil for the first time! Amazing content as always!

[@cassianoneto1553]

Yes, “Brazil’s birth certificate” as it became known.

[@ArturHolanda91]

Yeah, this would be a awesome idea

[@MA-go7ee]

Interesting

[@edyaoki450]

Yeah. Totally!

[@Igor_054]

I want to hear this guy reading the famous part: "Walking among them there were three or four girls, very young and gentle, with very dark hair, long at the shoulders, and their shames were so high, so clenched and so clean of hair that we had no shame at all in looking at them thoroughly."

[@REEDRICHARDS2]

Hans Staden is still remembered for us and studied in our schools in Brazil. Very respected and honored to be one of the first chroniclers of our country.

[@FuckTard-dd1ee]

Thanks for not eating him

[@REEDRICHARDS2]

@@FuckTard-dd1ee He was german, you know? We just went for the "saussage"! 😀

[@rosssouza1551]

Primeira vez que ouvi falar de cara.

[@stanbarkworth6198]

Seen some fucked up videos of people in Brazil etc eating themselves and others like not even from further than 10 years ago so glad to see the tradition carries on 😂

[@R.............]

@@stanbarkworth6198 Yes, but don't worry, you can visit Brazil, we only eat good meat

[@willl676]

I would love if you read Amerigo Vepucci's accounts on his travel to Brazil under a contract to the Portuguese Crown. He and his crew likewise had an encounter with cannibal tribes and it's pretty crazy.

[@JohnJohniskilla]

How do you look that stuff up

[@mishellekarn5260]

@Cynical Frenchface ikr...it seems they have ruined their reputation. Ppssshhht! 😆😆😆

[@grimshorts4834]

What is the book?

[@slowswimmer9169]

@Cynical Frenchface Yes. That's why I prefer encounters with cannabis instead

[@cavebabybeserkers2763]

Let you white folks tell it. Lol sure he did

[@kendallroberts9914]

Wow, great commentary. I loved the transition at 11:07, so small a detail but it was smooth. Not at all boring.

[@kendallroberts9914]

I see plenty of argument about the languages. Something I noticed people are not talking about is number one it appears as though he had become the vector for a disease and that likely saved his life. Number 2 regardless of any knowledge of language, he kept his calm. I can find it quite probable he would look at the moon and see a face and feel an emotion behind it. When you have been in a life-or-death situation , you realize how extreme emotions can be and how significant insignificant items become. By psychologically turning himself over to his God, he was able to keep himself in a calm and logical state. Even when he was being tortured by hopping, which is psychological torture, he kept his cool and asked questions. Anybody who was panicking the king would have just kept making it worse by acting like a wild animal.

[@EggShen905]

"Kill me with my beard". Like a boss.

[@laurelsilberman5705]

I absolutely loved this one. His faith was truly a rock for him. Very interesting. I love your channel.

[@mairidberz1450]

@Brookie calling it delusion is just rude.

[@laurelsilberman5705]

@Brookie I think the point was that you are being rude by labeling it as such. I agree with that assertion, by the way. Who are your trying to convince? I’m not even a Christian I just though it was interesting how his faith was a comfort to him. You’re rude.

[@MelGibsonFan]

@@laurelsilberman5705 It is hilariously hypocritical though, you gotta admit. The dude was an actual slaver.

[@gents8002]

@Brookie Hm, is that so? Out of all the "bad arguments" for the existence of a God, which do you deem to be the best, and why do you not buy it?

[@finfactor9086]

Atheist proselytes are the worst. Stop trying to indoctrinate people into your depression cult.

[@giovannicarrasco147]

amazing story to hear but I can only imagine how this all felt in real life. The smell, the wet mud, the wildlife, the fear, the anxiety, and the joy of when his brothers came. Incredible.

[@ninamartin1084]

The mosquitos. Never forget the mosquitos.

[@HipnoDark]

There's a book by Américo Vespucci that describe the killing and feasting of a European dude by Brazilian cannibals in the time of the discovery. Also describe coast of Venezuela ("Little Veneza" bcuz of the suspended houses they saw there), the basin of Amazon river that they though was a bay or some sea passages. They describe mermaids (Manatee like animals); Florida, Cuba, Jamaica, and keep going south until what is now Rio and further until Argentina and Uruguay coast. The book is called, in translation, "new world". It's a must read.

[@Noneofyourbusiness.-iw6zb]

OH! Great recommendation, have you read Pigaffeta book about Magallanes-Elcano first circumnavegation around the world? Its a little book that you can't stop until you end it. I love when in Asia he describes with absolute fascination " that he found and keeps in a little box a Living leaf that lives out air" Probably a leaf bug😂

[@almightyswizz]

The communication and language skills in the 1500s was phenomenal imagine a foreigner from a world away greeting you in your random language imagine speaking French German Spanish Portuguese and a native language in an untamed land

[@solwen]

The average American would have been doomed from the start

[@e.priest8937]

Europeans today in the EU usually speak several languages. As do many Africans, SE Asians. Etc. It's just us here in America that only speak English

[@deviantartguy0]

Can you blame us, the only language Americans really should learn is Spanish. They're our immediate 'different' speaking neighbors, if you forget about French Canadians. Everything else is not quite as important, no offense. Just from a practical kind of viewpoint.

[@ninamartin1084]

@@e.priest8937 Ooooh I think there are a lot of bilingual latinos in that North American nation called the USA if that is where you are referring to. Or are you claiming that in the entirety of North, Meso and South America people are monolingual?

[@ninamartin1084]

@@deviantartguy0 So Americans should learn Spanish so they can talk with other Americans? What about all the Americans who already speak Spanish? Those in the 21 Spanish speaking countries in America.

[@SashaBlightWing]

That's one hell of a story. Imagine being in a situation like that and being able to relate the analogies of god in those times to a fairly secluded tribe in your favour when the opportunity arises. Also upholding yourself with the sheer power of faith because that's the only thing you have left to latch onto. What a madlad.

[@lollllolll.]

The Lord brings to us great comfort in hard times. It is exactly what pushes men forward for the will to survive and to continue step by step even when there's a mountain on our shoulders.

[@AImighty_Loaf]

God is good, God is eternal

[@insomecc]

They where built different back then and also VERY religious.

[@spankyjeffro5320]

When faith is the only thing you have left to hang on to, you surely have nothing.

[@BenVanCamp]

@@DG-iw3ywGod hanged the worlds on nothing. Whether you believe in evolution, or God, we both agree that there was nothing, and suddenly, time began. So we both put faith in things unseen, or “nothing”, the difference is that God chose the fools who would choose Jesus Christ to inherit all things. ❤

[@elvenkind6072]

This is the most remarkable tale about the power of germs I've ever heard, it must have been terrifying for the natives how deadly the bacteria of the Europeans was.

[@moondog9717]

c'mon bro you shouldn't talk about the germans like that

[@Jman16007]

The German's germs were gruesome, and his virus horrendous. Worse than covid I dare say.

[@MrBottlecapBill]

So terrifying they kidnapped them to eat them every chance they could. Poor poor canibals. lol.

[@alectorellishiddenchips1725]

@@Jman16007 way worse than covid lmfao not even close to covid

[@bruderschweigen6889]

You think they knew about viral diseases these weren't exactly the brightest people on the planet

[@walfrido77]

I am from Brazil and I spent most of my weekends and holidays in Ubatuba, where this story hapenned. It is the most beautiful place of land I know. You can still visit tribes there and they still live in "ocas" like in that time. They are super friendly now.

[@viraxo5474]

I come from Homberg in Hessen. We made a wooden ship in school and send it to Brazil and they send us one back to commemorate Hans Staden.

[@gabeaze]

Shout out from São Paulo, Brazil

[@citricdemon]

literally took him to brazil

[@viraxo5474]

@@citricdemon poor man had to go there twice now

[@seronymus]

​@@mkultravictimxHambürgische Kurd?

[@zaboomafool1911]

That feeling when you go through the trouble of learning native Brazilian languages but forget to learn French.

[@goodnamestaken]

You know he was never cool with a French person again after that betrayal lol. That Frenchman knew damn well he was not Portuguese.

[@Freigeist2008]

For what reason. At that time it was important to learn Latin and German as the Lingua Franca in most parts of Europe (East, North). French was not so dominant as it become later under Louis XIV for the gentiles. Even Italian was more important at that time

[@kylehenline3245]

They want to eat you lol.

[@wind2536]

​@@Freigeist2008"gentiles" it's funny how Jews have a word for the rest of the world lol

[@Teutius]

@@Freigeist2008I’m surprised that if Hans spoke German the Frenchmen wouldn’t have recognized it thusly and exonerated him.

[@redghettosun]

Hans Staden and The Cannibals were also a 70s Heavy Psychedelic Rock outfit from Fucking, Austria (pronounced "Booking"). During a tour, their van crashed into a mountain at high speeds in the Tyrol while extremely high on shrooms. There were no survivors except a cat that jumped out a minute before the accident.

[@bruderschweigen6889]

Fucking, Austria never heard of that place

[@anthemsofeurope2408]

Fucking is not pronunced as "booking", more like "fooking"

[@bruderschweigen6889]

@@anthemsofeurope2408 wait this is real? lol

[@anthemsofeurope2408]

@@bruderschweigen6889 Yes. But its named Fugging now en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugging,_Upper_Austria

[@pogo9876]

As of 2021, Fucking, Austria is now called "Fugging", upper Austria. Yep. The town changed their name. Alas,"Fucking" is no more.....

[@Strype13]

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[@ArturHolanda91]

I'm Brazilian and I had to read a book about it back in school.

[@rosssouza1551]

Na Minha escola nao tinha nem careteira pra Sentar Imagina livros

[@deathlyhallows7150]

Good for u Cannibal

[@flapdrol]

Had to.. Or else...

[@greenpowerranger3867]

By far one of the best channels on KZbin. Every time I watch one of your videos I learn something new. Quality stuff !

[@barnsleyman32]

i genuinely felt so bad for him when he said he was sad after being mocked and looked at the moon, thinking god was angry at him :(

[@irateradioarchive]

I got misty.

[@cassianoneto1553]

“Even as food, I’m disappointing”

[@jowydon7512]

Jesus is The true God, he would never abandon Christians even after death

[@elvenkind6072]

@@jowydon7512 That is the truth. However, imagine how you would feel like if you were lost in an unknown continent, in a tribe of cannibals, even your faith might get reduced to the point when you questioned the good will of God.

[@jowydon7512]

@@elvenkind6072 I agree. I would be terrified of being eaten lol

[@Asm0deUS120]

I'm very used to documentaries. Hearing History told through the perspective of Historical figures that experienced those times is very refreshing. I feel like I actually got some true foresight into the tribe that kept him captive. thank you for sharing.

[@citricdemon]

you like pooping, shidding, and fartsing too?

[@krullntherakrore742]

Hello everyone, here is a Brazilian who lives in a city that is an hour from Ubatuba, the old village where Hans Staden was taken prisoner. Today it is an entire city dedicated to tourism where everything is very beautiful and expensive. The city's central avenue is called Hans Staden in honor of the adventurer who lived among the fierce cannibals the Goitaca (they were extinct). At the time, there were many conflicts between the French and the Portuguese over Brazil. The Portuguese got alliances with less wild Indians such as the Tupis and Carijos and there comes a little-known story, but recorded in old documents, the preference for certain types of human meat, unfortunately the French were a very disputed delicacy, the meat was slightly sweetened. When Hans Staden found himself in the tribe of cannibals, he made every possible effort to prove that he was Portuguese whose meat was not appreciated. He couldn't prove he was Portuguese, but he left the tribe in doubt, in the meantime Hans Staden became a kind of smiling village slave, he served everyone with great humility and willingness, the option of killing him to eat ended with so much dedicated worker! A hero The Goitaca were a very backward people, contrary to what many think they ate other human beings as if they were a chicken, there was no ritual or transcendence.

[@deviantartguy0]

Thanks for the clarification, I didn't know alot of that.

[@paulogaspar8295]

Nice, thanks for explaining further. The French always hated the Portuguese, it was nothing new. For centuries they had tried to conquer and steal things from the Portuguese. But later when the portuguese worked for them, building paris and most big cities after the war at almost slave wages then all of a sudden they now like the Portuguese lol.

[@krullntherakrore742]

@@paulogaspar8295 😂😂😂 Don't forget, my Brazilian friend, the sweet sweet meat of a well grilled French with herbs!

[@friedrichjunzt]

Of course he worked hard! he didnt want to be eaten!

[@krullntherakrore742]

@@friedrichjunzt It was a great strategy on his part.

[@RodrigoBoosBR]

Awesome. If I recall correctly he was pretty young, like 17 y/o, and had a rant with the ship's captain. He asked to be left ashore and despite being advised not to, he left the ship. From dozens of tribes along the brazilian coast, he was unlucky(?) enough to fall in the Tupinamba's hands, thise were the fierest warriors. They did not feed from himan flesh, but ritualistically they believed you could incorporate the enemy's virtues if you ate his parts. Since he was blond, with blue eyes, it is believed that - in the feeding period he would spend with the tribe - they liked his curious appearance and kept living him for the next feast, since they were constantly capturing portuguese in the village's vicinities. What a fantastic story!

[@nickrodriguez3850]

With a long beard? 😂 He was not that young

[@RodrigoBoosBR]

@@nickrodriguez3850 he was born in 1525 and his arrival was in 1549. An old man indeed...

[@FandersonUfo]

in a way it is fortunate that any record of this kind has survived

[@onlyme219]

Hans lied to sell a book, wake up

[@Ren602]

@@onlyme219 shut up

[@bigol9223]

​@@onlyme219source?

[@i.r.baboon]

Really enjoyed that story! Thanks for the effort 👌🏾

[@edyaoki450]

The story of Hans Staden created also a modern cultural movement in Brazil in 1920, o movimento antropofágico (the anthropophagic movement), that is to create Brazilian art, music and literature based on modern European and foreign concepts by "digesting" them and turning to Brasilian. Very curious.

[@jitogee4206]

BRO!!! these stories are INSANE!!!! VERY UNDERRATED!!! You end the intros at the perfect time lol

[@rockverso55]

A História do Brasil é, de fato, muito rica. Uma pena que a maioria dos brasileiros pouco a conhecem.

[@rickradix6174]

You are a good narrator. Very enjoyable.

[@VoicesofthePast]

Thanks!

[@doobiestudios1107]

This video probably took a lot of hard work to make, and it came out amazing. Congratulations. I’m Brazilian and Hans staden’s story is one of my favorites. Thanks for making this, bro! 👍

[@elvenkind6072]

I always become happy when I see a new documentary from Voices of the Past, and know there will be a new, most likely unknown tale from the past, even though I'm actually quite well read. Merry Christmas to all, if this is the last one before the New Year.

[@JennyT101]

My favorite line is "I was sad. " Talk about an understatement.

[@unknownuser-fv2lq]

Excellent story, it would be great if we could have some similar episode's to this, of prisoners who managed to escape snd tell their tales. Especially in older more brutal times.

[@ErickeTR]

There is also the recordings of Anthony Knyvet, an Englishman who worked for Thomas Cavendish, who ended up wrecking on the Brazilian coast and was later arrested by the Portuguese.

[@unknownuser-fv2lq]

@@ErickeTR thanks, I will check that one out

[@marbelzMopskartoffel]

You should also check out Lindy Beige "the white head hunter" i can highly recommend that 😁

[@MrBottlecapBill]

You may be shocked that the stories don't paint many native peoples of the time in a very positive light, contrary to what you're told today. They were often the very model of a toxic society. Driven by infantile revenge, superstition and a pure joy of violence. Even towards each other and their own villagers whenever possible. Lord of the flies incarnate in a way. Its very shocking to read.

[@Claroquesisisi09]

@@MrBottlecapBill wich Book plz??

[@alistairneale7283]

Excellent and really well told. What a mighty man of faith. Thank you

[@slappy8941]

Two cannibals were eating a clown; one turned to the other and asked, "Does this taste funny to you?"

[@derniercaesar5319]

Old but gold

[@TheJennick13]

Nice!:)

[@stobbinsboy]

Hey what's the definition of trust? 2 cannibals in a 69.

[@lollllolll.]

Dad jokes are underrated

[@erikseavey9445]

Fallout lol

[@hermesgestistruism]

An absolutely harrowing and incredible tale of survival! Great work bringing this to life. ✌️❤️🔮

[@YeeLeeHaw]

Hans is actually my great, great, great, great, grandfather. He had beautiful diaries and passed his stories down to my father which of whom now lays begone. My English is thou not so good but I enjoy videos on Hans.

[@kathejohnson4241]

So amazing. You should be proud.

[@tavish4699]

Lies

[@taigalul]

​@@tavish4699Maybe it's not lies, Fritz Müller is my father's relative 😅. We are all connected. People from ancient times also had families, and the families kept going till today

[@andreiyy]

This was insane, what an incredible listen. Well done

[@MrThatguyuknow]

This guy rolled a nat 20 at all the right times.

[@nullifye7816]

except at the start lol

[@edyaoki450]

@@nullifye7816 Nat 1 for charisma check. "Oh he is absolutely Portuguese!" says the Frenchmen.

[@pauloricardo-wn6ps]

or he brought a fuck ton of bacteria with him

[@arcguardian]

@@pauloricardo-wn6ps cannibals have their own issues bacteria wise.

[@douggaudiosi14]

@lucgma that joke deserves way more attention

[@djklu6550]

I'm very happy I found this channel! Every video I've watched has been great!

[@SwiftSpeers]

That was so good. My favorite one yet!

[@MrsStormtrooper]

Ah, classic early Brasil.... Thank you for covering this!! We've got a ton of interesting reports like this from the discovery era, hope you get to do another of them ^^

[@alemalvina7624]

His book its amazing. I fully recommend to read it.

[@onlyme219]

Fiction, that said I enjoy fiction

[@thelegofam4310]

Wonderful story. I love history and since time travel is still out of the question, this is as close as it gets. Great vid, love what your channel does.

[@J5460-r8z]

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen”, this mans faith made manifest his salvation!

[@rustyshackleford2007]

Fantastic episode. Thank you for your hard work.

[@vice-sama3015]

Hans: Save me, we're brothers in Christ! Frenchman: why is the food talking?

[@Sabrowsky]

Oh yeah, I asked for this one repeatedly, so I'll just sit back and enjoy

[@iksarguards]

This guy living that grocery store lobster lifestyle

[@jeffreyhamilton8950]

3 minutes in and I want to know how a man from Hesse would understand the language of the tribes. Love this channel!!

[@AndrewTheMandrew531]

I’m sure he learned over time. And they used hand gestures and simplistic language at first with him.

[@warmaster88]

That's what I'm thinking how long must he been there ? To learn it lol doesn't add up

[@thewildcardperson]

6 months apparently

[@Evan102030]

He could absolutely not have understood the complex things they said early on, or have recalled things said to him before he learned their language. It does indeed not add up.

[@obiwahndagobah9543]

@@Evan102030 If he travelled to Brazil to work there, he probably had to learn Tupi for communication. The French also communicated with the tribes in Tupi according to the account. The natives probably captured him after he already had learned a good amound of the language. Later Tupi was also for a long time a lingua franca under the portuguese. Only in the 19th century they discouraged the use of the language in favour for the portuguese language.

[@deandeann1541]

Lindybeige's channel has an excellent description of the "White Headhunter" who was captured by headhunters and talked his way out of s tight spot, eventually becoming the king's cook and taking part in many head hunting raids before he found a way to leave after several years. A most excellent story that is historically true. It is worth listening to, and is amazing and funny in places.

[@AlexandroMechina-yb3tf]

that video is amazing.

[@marcelovolcato8892]

To this day every child in Brazil learns Hans Staden's story. He is still famous around here.

[@lollllolll.]

We can see why, the dude survived death by a single breath

[@onlyme219]

So is Father Christmas, don't mean its true

[@applejuice9468]

@@onlyme219hm?

[@fredvasquez4201]

mentira.

[@paulohenriquesantos6505]

Bullshit. Nobody care about this gay here.

[@godofchaoskhorne5043]

"with this they also tried to shave my beard. But this I would not suffer! I said, kill me with my beard!" As a bearded guy.. I can relate.

[@charles_pensamentocritico]

If you need help with the pronounciation of portuguese / indigenous names, let me know, it isn't too hard to improve it and it would make your content even better. Great video as always, thanks!

[@nielgregory108]

Dude, watch some other vids. I think he trolls people constantly with mispronunciations.

[@charles_pensamentocritico]

@@nielgregory108 to me it looked like he did a good job that can be improved with a little help from a native. Was he trolling? Because it was really close.

[@BBWahoo]

Sopa de macaco Uma delicia

[@lowwprofile]

Amazing-- there are so many stories out there waiting to be found. It's amazing to think this actually happened.

[@More_Row]

Your reading of this is so amazingly good. Love your voice work.

[@gringagarbo7508]

That’s one amazing testimony!! 🙏🏼

[@axdillingham6658]

The behavior of the French guy reminds me of the Frenchmen from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

[@Philipp.of.Swabia]

Looool True xD

[@Bluettes-cm7wo]

that was a real good story with nice presentation, i enjoyed it!

[@ToolforOffice]

Imagine sailing away after that ordeal just thinking to yourself "what the actual fuck"

[@bryanthardin8481]

1550, a German man in Brazil 😀 1949, a German man in Brazil 🤨

[@martenkrueger8647]

Well said!💥💀

[@evo481]

Never trust a French guy living in the middle of nowhere! Very interesting video!

[@lucentnative4363]

Or at all 😂

[@DidierDidier-kc4nm]

lol funny mate ! im french man and i live in the middle of nowhere and i never bumped into a German captured by cannibals ''for the moment ''

[@evo481]

@@DidierDidier-kc4nm for the moment! :Lol

[@IblewuponyourfaceIII]

It was a French Ship that saved him at the end

[@KomradeCPU]

indeed, the frenchman hermit was so casually presented lmao no phones in sight just people living the moment I guess

[@briann6710]

Thanks for sharing this most unique story about a stranger showing up for dinner. I suppose one can't blame people for getting excited about their first foreign food.

[@exterminans]

Cursed is he who puts his trust in the French

[@初日の出_初日の入り]

Amen to that

[@solwen]

Still salty about those centuries of humiliation at the hands of the French heh ?

[@IblewuponyourfaceIII]

It was a French Ship that saved him at the end

[@claytonpeterson468]

Rites of cannibalism are very common in North America Natives, read some of the early settlers being captured and ate, very common during the French Indian Wars, the capture of Fort Michamilimak fed the warriors.

[@bendover9813]

Really, it’s common in almost all Stone Age societies, at least in a ritualistic sense. These people didn’t eat others every day, it was a large, religious ceremony that took weeks to happen. About a third of the Paleolithic bones we find in the old world also show signs of cannibalism, and it’s even higher when you factor in Neanderthals, who were notoriously cannibalistic.

[@mikeyroxxit93]

@George Lynch Dixon so they didn't eat them for their Gods but they butchered them and sacrificed them for their Gods. Sounds pretty similar idk

[@mikicerise6250]

@George Lynch Dixon It was in Britannia. Documented by the Romans.

[@erikbeck9429]

Cannibalism is the basis of Christian sacrament. It takes one like 26,000 masses to consume an entire Christ.

[@ichwill7536]

@@mikeyroxxit93 can tell your from commiefornia without the username. Logic strong as ice in the sun

[@jurisprudens2697]

11:00 - I like the transition you made

[@PaddyFeen]

Love this channel so much, the videos really help me calm down

[@hepatus1]

It is curious that the place where Hans Staden was captured is nowadays one of the most touristic places of São Paulo, which is the most populous of Brazil's states. Parts of his fort can still be seen in the woods near Bertioga's channel. Nowadays we can see two more ancient forts, a ferryboat station, a pier, a restaurant and part of the city of Bertioga at that location.

[@hepatus1]

The channel near the fort where Staden was captured was a boundary between two indigenous people's territories, the Tupiniquins (allies of the Portuguese ) and Tupinambás (allied of the French). They were enemies, and were fighting an ethnic war. This explains the Tupinambas' incursion where Staden has been captured.

[@RYROSmetaldefender]

Some records states that after the capture, the victim was surrounded with brazilian cannibals inside some form of wooden octagon, while chantings could be heard saying UH, VAI MORRER UH, VAI MORRER

[@pizzadesushi0000]

KKKKKKKKKKKKK

[@derniercaesar5319]

Aaaaaaa vai se lascar kkkkkkkkkkkkkk

[@forrestpatterson6053]

Incredible narration. The resentment in his voice every time he talks about how they planned to eat him 🤌

[@ethienosinsky5186]

Will you cover the tale of Johannes Schiltberger ? A Bavarian squire captured at the battle of Nicopolis who became a Sipahi for the Ottomans and then the Timurids after being captured again at the battle of Ankara, the largest medieval battle in History

[@Nathanfx2006]

Honestly been awhile since I saw a story I wanted to listen in on. Life as a prisoner of cannabals, now you have my attention!