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Episode 623: Fan Favorite: The Violent Deaths of Bog Bodies

Mon, 02 Dec 2024

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This episode is a Fan Favorite that was originally published as Episode 401. We hope that you continue to have a happy and safe holiday!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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What are bog bodies and why are they significant?

2544.874 - 2568.92 Ash

trace lineage and everything you know like that'd be so cool i feel like it it could actually happen like we have so much that we're getting from these and it's like year by year as technology and science like right goes forward and just like gets better and better they're getting more and more from these bodies because some of the things that when they would first get them either in the 80s and the 50s and they you know even the 90s

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2570.16 - 2577.526 Ash

They would think one thing, but then we get into the 2000s and everything progressed. And then all of a sudden they go, oh, wait a second, that wasn't the case.

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2577.606 - 2578.586 Elena

Because now we know.

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2579.187 - 2603.265 Ash

Like some of them, there was a couple that they were like, we don't know if this cracked skull is from the layers of peat moss crushing their skull or if it was a perimortem injury. Right, right. And sometimes they would say they think it's from the peat moss and then later they would discover... No, that was actually done perimortem because we can see evidence of swelling around the wounds.

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2603.385 - 2618.798 Ash

That's crazy. Which shows that there was bruising, which shows that there was blood flow while it was happening. That is just like wild. Which is just, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Now the nipple thing. Please. Please no, but also please yes. Please no, please yes.

2619.259 - 2631.331 Ash

It was important because apparently this led a lot of researchers to believe that these men could have actually been failed kings or people in line of succession who failed to become kings.

2631.531 - 2633.013 Elena

So if you fail to become a king, they...

2634.597 - 2659.376 Ash

Oh, I'm going to explain. They rip your nips? So are you ready to hear something a little shocking? I mean, usually from you, yeah. I'm going to say a sentence that I didn't know I would ever say. She's looking nervous. Apparently in Ireland, back in the day. In our family? Our family. Sucking on a king's nipples was once suggested as a form of submission.

2664.787 - 2681.655 Ash

like to submit to a king that is what you did that's hot i read something i read something that said isn't it easier just to kneel and kiss a ring like isn't that just like like kiss the ring right kind of thing like isn't that easier like like you gotta to get undressed.

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