WEBVTT 00:00:39.759 --> 00:00:42.259 Welcome back, everybody. This is Neogentrics, 00:00:42.340 --> 00:00:44.600 your host for Food for Thought, Thoughts If It 00:00:44.600 --> 00:00:48.439 Were You. This is season two. The year 2020 is 00:00:48.439 --> 00:00:51.140 here. We're going to pick up where we left off 00:00:51.140 --> 00:00:54.759 with the last story that I covered for the Dark 00:00:54.759 --> 00:00:57.740 Truth series. And this one, we're going to talk 00:00:57.740 --> 00:01:01.600 about Rapunzel. No, don't get me wrong. There's 00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:03.460 a lot of other stuff I'm wanting to cover this 00:01:03.460 --> 00:01:06.689 year, especially this semester. with all the 00:01:06.689 --> 00:01:09.549 changes happening but i will be having a lot 00:01:09.549 --> 00:01:13.209 of guests uh peeking in on the podcast that i 00:01:13.209 --> 00:01:15.069 have here and there and everywhere and i'll be 00:01:15.069 --> 00:01:17.049 covering a lot of new stuff this year if you 00:01:17.049 --> 00:01:19.189 have any suggestions again feel free to let me 00:01:19.189 --> 00:01:21.950 know so let's go and get started with rapunzel 00:01:21.950 --> 00:01:23.969 first things first i want y 'all to know something 00:01:23.969 --> 00:01:26.739 okay The story that everyone knows about the 00:01:26.739 --> 00:01:29.280 long -haired girl that lived in the tower, that's 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:32.319 not how that story was originally written. The 00:01:32.319 --> 00:01:34.939 real Rapunzel wasn't just a beautiful woman locked 00:01:34.939 --> 00:01:38.680 in a tower. If not anything, she was actually 00:01:38.680 --> 00:01:41.620 a literal saint, or at least one of the early 00:01:41.620 --> 00:01:43.959 inspirations for the folktale that would later 00:01:43.959 --> 00:01:47.060 become Rapunzel. The actual story is actually 00:01:47.060 --> 00:01:49.040 a lot darker than the Grimm Brothers version 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:51.459 that a lot of people are now familiar with, in 00:01:51.459 --> 00:01:53.579 which the prince seduces Rapunzel instead of 00:01:53.579 --> 00:01:57.209 saving her. We'll cover that in more detail later. 00:01:57.730 --> 00:02:00.069 Just like the true story of Snow White and Seven 00:02:00.069 --> 00:02:02.969 Dwarves, Disney had to change a lot in the Rapunzel 00:02:02.969 --> 00:02:05.329 story before turning it out as a children's film, 00:02:05.390 --> 00:02:08.770 as you're all aware. Now, with that being said... 00:02:09.969 --> 00:02:12.210 The real story was about her being a literal 00:02:12.210 --> 00:02:14.229 saint. Her name was Saint Barbara. She was the 00:02:14.229 --> 00:02:16.110 daughter of a rich Roman merchant in the 3rd 00:02:16.110 --> 00:02:18.789 century. Now, her own father actually did lock 00:02:18.789 --> 00:02:21.090 her into a tower so that she wouldn't convert 00:02:21.090 --> 00:02:25.150 to convert Christianity. But Barbara still found 00:02:25.150 --> 00:02:27.669 a way. She also resisted marriage, just like 00:02:27.669 --> 00:02:29.810 the Christian saints who protected their virginity 00:02:29.810 --> 00:02:32.490 with some extreme measures. I love how a lot 00:02:32.490 --> 00:02:33.870 of these stories always have something to do 00:02:33.870 --> 00:02:37.259 with religion in some way or the other. Anyway, 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:39.500 as punishment for her faith, Barbara's pagan 00:02:39.500 --> 00:02:43.919 father grabbed her by the hair and, well, beheaded 00:02:43.919 --> 00:02:48.840 her. Yeah, that happened. The links between St. 00:02:48.939 --> 00:02:51.719 Barbara and Rapunzel go beyond both being locked 00:02:51.719 --> 00:02:55.539 in towers. Like St. Barbara, Rapunzel was an 00:02:55.539 --> 00:02:57.280 independent woman who refused to listen to authority, 00:02:57.439 --> 00:02:59.960 but luckily for Rapunzel, she didn't suffer the 00:02:59.960 --> 00:03:02.300 same gruesome fate as the stories that were inspired. 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:11.599 for Rapunzel. Okay? So, starting with that, the 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:14.580 tragic tale of St. Barbara was inspired by the 00:03:14.580 --> 00:03:19.039 tower and the tribulations of Rapunzel. With 00:03:19.039 --> 00:03:20.860 that being said, there were multiple versions 00:03:20.860 --> 00:03:23.379 of the Rapunzel story, but they all shared one 00:03:23.379 --> 00:03:26.099 common feature. The heroine is a beautiful woman, 00:03:26.180 --> 00:03:28.879 you know, locked in some tower somewhere. And 00:03:28.879 --> 00:03:31.659 in one of those stories, it was partially... 00:03:32.460 --> 00:03:35.759 inspired for the tale of Rapunzel was most likely 00:03:35.759 --> 00:03:37.840 the story of St. Barbara, like I mentioned earlier, 00:03:38.099 --> 00:03:40.400 as an early Christian martyr who was locked in 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:43.419 the tower. The tale was compiled by Jacobus de 00:03:43.419 --> 00:03:46.819 Voragin. Look, I don't know how to pronounce 00:03:46.819 --> 00:03:50.680 his name. He was the Archbishop of Genoa in 1275 00:03:50.680 --> 00:03:54.419 CE. While Barbara's story is a key difference 00:03:54.419 --> 00:03:56.240 from the Rapunzel stories, rather than a whole 00:03:56.240 --> 00:03:58.520 magical captor who trapped her in a tower, the 00:03:58.520 --> 00:04:00.740 evil person in Barbara's life was actually her 00:04:00.740 --> 00:04:04.319 father, not a witch. In the early years of Christianity, 00:04:04.539 --> 00:04:06.639 Barbara was secretly converted to the new faith, 00:04:06.759 --> 00:04:08.719 but her father, who practiced a Roman religion, 00:04:08.979 --> 00:04:11.240 locked his daughter in a tower so she couldn't 00:04:11.240 --> 00:04:14.180 be a Christian. It's the whole preference of 00:04:14.180 --> 00:04:18.620 that. Next, I'm going to talk about the so -called 00:04:18.620 --> 00:04:22.410 evil witch in her life, being her father. when 00:04:22.410 --> 00:04:40.490 we come right back all right everybody and we're 00:04:40.490 --> 00:04:44.370 back moving on where i left off in the last piece 00:04:44.370 --> 00:04:47.769 um in the rapunzel story the heroine is locked 00:04:47.769 --> 00:04:50.509 in the tower by an evil witch or an ogre, or 00:04:50.509 --> 00:04:52.430 a fairy, depending on the version of the story 00:04:52.430 --> 00:04:54.490 that you're familiar with. But in The Legend 00:04:54.490 --> 00:04:56.529 of St. Barbara, the woman was actually locked 00:04:56.529 --> 00:04:59.350 in a tower by her father. Now... The legend holds 00:04:59.350 --> 00:05:01.350 that her father shut her in the tower for one 00:05:01.350 --> 00:05:03.790 of two different reasons. One was because she 00:05:03.790 --> 00:05:06.829 was very beautiful, and he didn't want any unsuitable 00:05:06.829 --> 00:05:09.189 suitors kidding her, and he wanted to pick her 00:05:09.189 --> 00:05:11.850 husband, so he limited the competition by hiding 00:05:11.850 --> 00:05:14.129 her. The other one was that, obviously, like 00:05:14.129 --> 00:05:17.129 I mentioned before, he feared the influence of 00:05:17.129 --> 00:05:19.230 a new religion, Christianity, because he was 00:05:19.230 --> 00:05:23.110 obviously a wealthy Roman merchant. And he didn't 00:05:23.110 --> 00:05:25.269 like the idea of the Fates' emphasis on helping 00:05:25.269 --> 00:05:28.029 the poor, and he knew his daughter liked... to 00:05:28.029 --> 00:05:30.949 help the poor more than anything else. So he 00:05:30.949 --> 00:05:33.790 tried to lock her in the tower. Now, despite 00:05:33.790 --> 00:05:36.089 being in the tower, she still found a way to 00:05:36.089 --> 00:05:39.730 read and learn about Christianity anyway. Even 00:05:39.730 --> 00:05:41.589 though she spent those years in the tower, getting 00:05:41.589 --> 00:05:44.149 her food, clothes delivered to her by a basket 00:05:44.149 --> 00:05:48.720 on a rope, somehow... some way the new religion 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:50.360 still found a way to reach her now according 00:05:50.360 --> 00:05:53.259 to the legend a stranger snuck a book into barbara's 00:05:53.259 --> 00:05:55.459 basket this is what taught her about christianity 00:05:55.459 --> 00:05:58.300 and of course she instantly converted she even 00:05:58.300 --> 00:06:00.459 tricked her father into sending a priest to her 00:06:00.459 --> 00:06:03.100 by pretending to be ill and requesting a doctor 00:06:03.100 --> 00:06:06.060 now priests were known as doctors of the soul 00:06:06.060 --> 00:06:10.470 so that she could secretly receive baptism In 00:06:10.470 --> 00:06:12.589 The Saint's Tale, though, Barbara's conversion 00:06:12.589 --> 00:06:15.189 is treated as a miraculous accomplishment, but 00:06:15.189 --> 00:06:17.689 it also led to her downfall. Keeping this in 00:06:17.689 --> 00:06:21.810 mind, she had to hide messages built into the 00:06:21.810 --> 00:06:24.870 very architecture of her tower for various reasons. 00:06:25.009 --> 00:06:28.709 Why? Well, let's see. She secretly practiced 00:06:28.709 --> 00:06:30.470 her Christian faith against her father's wishes, 00:06:30.589 --> 00:06:33.490 and one sign of her hidden faith was built into 00:06:33.490 --> 00:06:35.509 the tower where she was trapped. When Barbara's 00:06:35.509 --> 00:06:38.110 father was out of town, she asked the men working 00:06:38.110 --> 00:06:41.120 at her... on her tower. To make one change, instead 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:43.220 of putting two windows in the tower, she wanted 00:06:43.220 --> 00:06:46.079 three. The architectural modification wasn't 00:06:46.079 --> 00:06:48.139 because Barbara wanted to make sure she got enough 00:06:48.139 --> 00:06:50.139 light. Rather, the windows were a reminder of 00:06:50.139 --> 00:06:54.699 the Holy Trinity. One window each for the Father, 00:06:54.759 --> 00:06:57.079 Son, and Holy Spirit. Or, as Barbara explained 00:06:57.079 --> 00:06:58.980 to her father, three windows lightening all the 00:06:58.980 --> 00:07:01.240 world and all creatures, but two make darkness. 00:07:01.540 --> 00:07:05.560 It was as good as a confession that she was secretly 00:07:05.560 --> 00:07:09.500 a Christian. though her father didn't know that 00:07:09.500 --> 00:07:13.620 at the time now with that being said according 00:07:13.620 --> 00:07:15.519 to the life of st barbara which was written in 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:18.579 the thirteenth century her father was furious 00:07:18.579 --> 00:07:21.220 when she told him that she had actually converted 00:07:21.220 --> 00:07:25.879 he dragged her to jail by her hair i don't know 00:07:25.879 --> 00:07:28.399 how to say this spoiler warning This is going 00:07:28.399 --> 00:07:30.399 to be a bit brutal, so if you can't handle this, 00:07:30.420 --> 00:07:32.939 please skip ahead. Her father basically took 00:07:32.939 --> 00:07:35.160 her by the hair, drew her down from the mountain, 00:07:35.300 --> 00:07:38.279 and shut her fast into a prison. And even though 00:07:38.279 --> 00:07:40.939 she was his own daughter, the father demanded 00:07:40.939 --> 00:07:43.220 that she go on trial simply for being a Christian. 00:07:43.720 --> 00:07:46.079 And at the trial, the pagan judge ordered Barbara 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:47.779 to choose between renouncing her Christianity 00:07:47.779 --> 00:07:52.459 or torture. Well, as you probably already know, 00:07:52.600 --> 00:07:56.490 she chose to torture. She also made a very fiery 00:07:56.490 --> 00:08:00.230 speech where she said, and I quote, fire on your 00:08:00.230 --> 00:08:03.029 devils and her faith carried her through a series 00:08:03.029 --> 00:08:09.189 of gruesome tortures. Moving forward with that, 00:08:09.269 --> 00:08:13.649 her tortures were horrific, but the final one 00:08:13.649 --> 00:08:17.069 was way, way worse. The judge stripped Barbara 00:08:17.069 --> 00:08:21.139 completely naked and beat her with a... How do 00:08:21.139 --> 00:08:25.139 I put this? Sins of bulls and fraught her flesh 00:08:25.139 --> 00:08:28.660 with salt. Think of it like a cat -o' -nine -tails 00:08:28.660 --> 00:08:35.059 whip. The second round included cutting off her 00:08:35.059 --> 00:08:39.940 breasts and burning her with lamps. And back 00:08:39.940 --> 00:08:43.419 then they had oil lamps, so yeah. When Barbara 00:08:43.419 --> 00:08:45.879 was paraded through the town naked to shame her, 00:08:45.980 --> 00:08:48.399 God sent an angel to cloak her body in fog so 00:08:48.399 --> 00:08:51.620 Barbara wouldn't suffer too much. In the end, 00:08:51.620 --> 00:08:53.279 the same person who locked Barbara in the tower 00:08:53.279 --> 00:08:56.120 actually ended up ending her life. Her own father 00:08:56.120 --> 00:08:59.559 grabbed her beautiful hair and struck off Barbara's 00:08:59.559 --> 00:09:02.580 head with the sword. According to the legend, 00:09:02.700 --> 00:09:04.399 as soon as Barbara died, a bolt of lightning 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:08.720 struck her father and killed him. Jeez. Well. 00:09:11.279 --> 00:09:14.080 Now that I got that out of the way, as gruesome 00:09:14.080 --> 00:09:17.120 as that was, next we're going to talk about how 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:19.500 the long hair might have come from a Persian 00:09:19.500 --> 00:09:39.529 epic of this story. Alrighty then, after all 00:09:39.529 --> 00:09:42.309 of that depressing nonsense, let's go ahead and 00:09:42.309 --> 00:09:45.389 move forward. We're talking about now where her 00:09:45.389 --> 00:09:47.830 long hair might have come from and which epic 00:09:47.830 --> 00:09:53.090 it may have referred to. Now, however, none of 00:09:53.090 --> 00:09:54.730 the stories of St. Barbara claim that she had 00:09:54.730 --> 00:09:57.830 extremely long hair. Keep this in mind. Her hair 00:09:57.830 --> 00:10:00.250 is mentioned several times when her father drags 00:10:00.250 --> 00:10:02.629 her to prison by her hair and when he pulls her 00:10:02.629 --> 00:10:05.350 hair back to basically, you know, nip her off. 00:10:05.889 --> 00:10:08.830 But... No one climbs her hair, which is the key 00:10:08.830 --> 00:10:11.049 element of the later version of Rapunzel's story 00:10:11.049 --> 00:10:13.309 that we're all familiar with. Where did this 00:10:13.309 --> 00:10:16.009 long tresses of Rapunzel's fairy tale hair come 00:10:16.009 --> 00:10:18.549 from? Well, most people argue that the long hair 00:10:18.549 --> 00:10:21.950 was borrowed from a Persian epic, the Shamana, 00:10:22.070 --> 00:10:24.750 Shamane, however you wish to pronounce that. 00:10:26.190 --> 00:10:29.889 This epic was written around the year 1000 CE. 00:10:30.250 --> 00:10:33.190 Now, in the story, the beautiful Radaba, that 00:10:33.190 --> 00:10:35.330 was her name, catches the eye of a young hero 00:10:35.330 --> 00:10:38.309 named Zal in order to meet up. He visits her 00:10:38.309 --> 00:10:40.850 tower and she throws down her long hair so he 00:10:40.850 --> 00:10:44.110 can climb up to see her. Of course, their story 00:10:44.110 --> 00:10:47.070 ends with an unplanned pregnancy and a Romeo 00:10:47.070 --> 00:10:50.269 and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet twist, where their 00:10:50.269 --> 00:10:52.169 fathers don't approve of the union because Zala 00:10:52.169 --> 00:10:54.730 is Persian and Radaba is Babylonian, but they 00:10:54.730 --> 00:10:59.529 get a happy ending when astrologers predict that 00:10:59.529 --> 00:11:03.129 their son will conquer the world. Yeah, I know, 00:11:03.210 --> 00:11:06.330 weird, isn't it? However, in another version 00:11:06.330 --> 00:11:10.009 of Rapunzel's tale, in the late 1600s, a woman 00:11:10.009 --> 00:11:13.210 wrote her own version of Rapunzel's story. And 00:11:13.210 --> 00:11:15.009 she used it to criticize the most powerful ruler 00:11:15.009 --> 00:11:18.529 in Europe, Charlotte Rose de Comont de la Force. 00:11:18.850 --> 00:11:22.330 She was a French fairytale writer with a scandalous 00:11:22.330 --> 00:11:24.710 history. She had multiple affairs, including 00:11:24.710 --> 00:11:27.269 one with an actor who shocked the royal court 00:11:27.269 --> 00:11:29.629 by accidentally leaving his nightcap in her room. 00:11:29.809 --> 00:11:32.149 And according to the one rumor, Charlotte Rose 00:11:32.149 --> 00:11:36.389 was sent away from court when King Louis XIV, 00:11:36.470 --> 00:11:38.450 the Sun King, suspected her of sleeping with 00:11:38.450 --> 00:11:43.120 his son. Dang. Anyway, Charlotte Rose wasn't 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:46.340 just sent away. She was locked in a convent against 00:11:46.340 --> 00:11:48.639 her wishes. While in the convent, she wrote her 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:50.840 own version of Rapunzel's story called Persianette. 00:11:52.120 --> 00:11:54.659 Did the author identify the beauty locked in 00:11:54.659 --> 00:11:58.460 the tower? Well, if so, the evil fairy tale in 00:11:58.460 --> 00:12:01.620 Persianette was a clear allusion to Louis XIV 00:12:01.620 --> 00:12:04.860 who forced Charlotte Rose into a convent. In 00:12:04.860 --> 00:12:06.700 case y 'all wanted to know how that story came 00:12:06.700 --> 00:12:09.960 to be. Now, in the original, Rapunzel is sold 00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:12.179 to an ogre because her mother stole parsley. 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:16.539 Yeah, you heard me right. Parsley. In the first 00:12:16.539 --> 00:12:18.580 version of Rapunzel's story, it was basically 00:12:18.580 --> 00:12:22.580 written by Gia Bautista Basile in the early 1600s. 00:12:23.259 --> 00:12:25.700 Basile's version tells the story of a long -haired 00:12:25.700 --> 00:12:27.480 beauty trapped in a tower and a prince who comes 00:12:27.480 --> 00:12:29.679 to rescue her, but that's where the similarities 00:12:29.679 --> 00:12:32.419 to the movie that was written by Disney called 00:12:32.419 --> 00:12:36.580 Tangled in 2010 end. For those who were curious 00:12:36.580 --> 00:12:39.500 if this movie was related to that. As for how 00:12:39.500 --> 00:12:41.720 Rapunzel ends up in the tower, Basile's explanation 00:12:41.720 --> 00:12:43.879 is actually a little more depressing. It involves 00:12:43.879 --> 00:12:46.620 a horrible punishment for stealing a garnish 00:12:46.620 --> 00:12:49.820 that most people throw in the trash. The story 00:12:49.820 --> 00:12:53.679 starts with Rapunzel's mom, uh, basically... 00:12:54.449 --> 00:12:56.809 stealing parsley from an ogre's garden because 00:12:56.809 --> 00:12:59.009 it looked so delicious. When the ogre finally 00:12:59.009 --> 00:13:01.210 catches the food thief, Rapunzel's mother is 00:13:01.210 --> 00:13:03.350 forced to give up her firstborn to the ogre as 00:13:03.350 --> 00:13:05.809 a punishment for stealing the herb. After poor 00:13:05.809 --> 00:13:08.210 Rapunzel is born, her mother basically hands 00:13:08.210 --> 00:13:10.169 her over to be locked in a tower, which is even 00:13:10.169 --> 00:13:12.649 darker than the one that they mentioned in Tangled 00:13:12.649 --> 00:13:16.950 when they did the kidnapping explanation. With 00:13:16.950 --> 00:13:19.149 that being said, let me go ahead and talk about 00:13:19.149 --> 00:13:23.159 the prince really quick. The Grimm Brothers are 00:13:23.159 --> 00:13:27.720 known for some pretty dark fairy tales, and Rapunzel 00:13:27.720 --> 00:13:30.360 is no exception. In the first version of the 00:13:30.360 --> 00:13:33.200 fairy tale written in 1812, a handsome prince 00:13:33.200 --> 00:13:35.980 finds Rapunzel locked in her tower, comes up 00:13:35.980 --> 00:13:38.480 to rescue her, but instead of rescuing the beautiful 00:13:38.480 --> 00:13:40.980 woman, the prince visits her every day for a 00:13:40.980 --> 00:13:43.220 different reason. As the Grimm Brothers tell 00:13:43.220 --> 00:13:46.179 it, and I quote, they lived in joy and pleasure 00:13:46.179 --> 00:13:51.679 for a long time. until Rapunzel realizes the 00:13:51.679 --> 00:13:55.179 risks of unprotected sex. Rapunzel asks her captor, 00:13:55.460 --> 00:14:06.080 and I quote, The evil woman, a fairy in this 00:14:06.080 --> 00:14:08.120 version of the story, kicks Rapunzel out of the 00:14:08.120 --> 00:14:11.120 tower and blinds the prince. The sad lovers wander 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:14.200 in the woods for years until they find each other 00:14:14.200 --> 00:14:19.710 and fall back in love. Yeah. Not exactly the 00:14:19.710 --> 00:14:23.450 best turnout, for all those who know. You can 00:14:23.450 --> 00:14:27.110 kind of figure out where this ended. We're going 00:14:27.110 --> 00:14:29.070 to take another short break real quick, and I'm 00:14:29.070 --> 00:14:31.009 going to finish off this segment with a little 00:14:31.009 --> 00:14:34.509 bit of other information, and then we'll go on 00:14:34.509 --> 00:14:36.909 into something new. I'll tell you what it is. 00:14:38.009 --> 00:15:02.220 Look forward to that, and let's get going. All 00:15:02.220 --> 00:15:04.460 right, everybody. Now with all the weird stuff 00:15:04.460 --> 00:15:08.279 out of the way, let me go ahead and, before we 00:15:08.279 --> 00:15:09.820 finish this up, because there's only a little 00:15:09.820 --> 00:15:12.679 bit left I want to cover, let me go ahead and 00:15:12.679 --> 00:15:16.539 say this. A lot of these stories have a very 00:15:16.539 --> 00:15:18.460 dark turn to them, and a lot of people don't 00:15:18.460 --> 00:15:22.120 realize that they have very horrifying origins. 00:15:22.899 --> 00:15:25.340 They only know the blissful world that they live 00:15:25.340 --> 00:15:27.039 in and don't really care to know about where 00:15:27.039 --> 00:15:30.659 they came from. This is no different than being 00:15:30.659 --> 00:15:32.779 ignorant of your past, and a lot of people fall 00:15:32.779 --> 00:15:35.259 short to this. They're quick to want to defend 00:15:35.259 --> 00:15:36.960 themselves and say that they aren't ignorant, 00:15:37.059 --> 00:15:40.820 but to be fair, anyone who doesn't choose to 00:15:40.820 --> 00:15:43.419 learn and move forward is technically of that 00:15:43.419 --> 00:15:46.480 class. That doesn't mean everybody is like that. 00:15:46.500 --> 00:15:48.600 Some people want to do it the hard way, and they'll 00:15:48.600 --> 00:15:50.799 still learn. They'll just be doing it a different 00:15:50.799 --> 00:15:53.100 way. But anyone who chooses to stay ignorant 00:15:53.100 --> 00:15:56.539 isn't, you know, actually enriching themselves 00:15:56.539 --> 00:15:58.799 in the way that they should. With that being 00:15:58.799 --> 00:16:02.080 said, with all the talks of torture, beheadings, 00:16:02.080 --> 00:16:04.879 and unplanned pregnancies, obviously, you know 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:06.860 Disney's not going to want that in any of their 00:16:06.860 --> 00:16:09.580 books or in their stories that they produce. 00:16:09.879 --> 00:16:12.460 Now, Barbara's gruesome story of conversion and 00:16:12.460 --> 00:16:14.559 beheading is a long way from the Disney version 00:16:14.559 --> 00:16:18.580 of Rapunzel that everybody knows. But like Rapunzel, 00:16:18.659 --> 00:16:20.700 Barbara was a beautiful woman who was treated 00:16:20.700 --> 00:16:23.200 badly by her parents. And remember, in the original 00:16:23.200 --> 00:16:25.419 stories, Rapunzel was given to the evil witch 00:16:25.419 --> 00:16:27.659 by her parents as punishment for stealing parsley. 00:16:28.450 --> 00:16:31.929 While the original Rapunzel was no virgin, Barbara 00:16:31.929 --> 00:16:34.470 reportedly refused to marry and remain chaste. 00:16:34.690 --> 00:16:36.769 And according to the medieval saints' lives, 00:16:36.970 --> 00:16:40.250 Barbara's story also has a happy ending, since 00:16:40.250 --> 00:16:42.889 after the horrific torture and beheading by her 00:16:42.889 --> 00:16:47.190 father, Barbara became a saint. Now, still, after 00:16:47.190 --> 00:16:48.730 learning the history of Barbara and the early 00:16:48.730 --> 00:16:50.710 disturbing versions of Rapunzel, it is clear 00:16:50.710 --> 00:16:54.429 why Disney clearly changed a few things in the 00:16:54.429 --> 00:16:57.049 movie Tangled when they basically produced it. 00:16:58.120 --> 00:17:00.740 You know, there's a lot of stuff and a lot of 00:17:00.740 --> 00:17:04.079 reasons that went into this. Now, keep in mind 00:17:04.079 --> 00:17:05.779 that, like I said before, a lot of this stuff 00:17:05.779 --> 00:17:08.200 that I'm covering is definitely R -rated. And 00:17:08.200 --> 00:17:10.880 it's not suited for everybody to listen to. Now, 00:17:11.019 --> 00:17:13.920 with that being said, let's just assume for a 00:17:13.920 --> 00:17:15.359 fact that you don't want to hide this from your 00:17:15.359 --> 00:17:17.539 kids no more and you want them to know. Or you 00:17:17.539 --> 00:17:19.099 are one of those kids who wanted to know but 00:17:19.099 --> 00:17:24.109 are afraid to hear what you just heard. heads 00:17:24.109 --> 00:17:26.369 up, it's not as great as you think it is. And, 00:17:26.470 --> 00:17:29.029 you know, life is a lot like this. These stories 00:17:29.029 --> 00:17:30.690 were written in the past, and keep in mind that 00:17:30.690 --> 00:17:33.190 they were originally considered tales suitable 00:17:33.190 --> 00:17:37.630 for kids then. Nowadays, may not be so. So with 00:17:37.630 --> 00:17:39.849 that being said, we're going to go ahead and 00:17:39.849 --> 00:17:41.670 move forward from this. This is the last episode. 00:17:42.809 --> 00:17:44.730 I'm probably going to do of this unless it's 00:17:44.730 --> 00:17:47.190 requested again. Though there are still like 00:17:47.190 --> 00:17:49.269 two or three more stories I can definitely cover. 00:17:51.599 --> 00:17:54.440 But I'm not going to do that for a while. Coming 00:17:54.440 --> 00:17:57.720 up next is the Black History Month in February. 00:17:58.039 --> 00:18:00.039 But I want to get a couple more episodes in before 00:18:00.039 --> 00:18:02.480 January is over. So if you have any suggestions, 00:18:02.740 --> 00:18:04.900 feel free to let me know. And we'll move forward 00:18:04.900 --> 00:18:06.960 with there. Again, this is Food for Thought. 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:09.339 Thoughts if it were you. I'm your host, Neogentrix. 00:18:10.279 --> 00:18:11.539 Enjoy the rest of your day.